And that those oil tankers needed to be decommissioned, and 2004 was going to be the pinnacle.

They were talking about Exxon Valdez, and that there was going to be a glut of oil tankers because of the insurance industries.

Sixty per cent of Palestinian families currently depended on water distributed from tankers, which consumed 17 to 40 per cent of the household income in the summer months. In some cases, because of checkpoints and closures, water tankers were not always able to reach villages and, as a result, some communities had been without water for several days.

Because when tankers carry oil they have to have ballast at some point, so when they're empty, they have the ballast water in there.

My journey began in 1971 when I witnessed two oil tankers collide beneath the Golden Gate, and a half a million gallons of oil spilled into the bay.

56. Welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships of 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, providing for the accelerated phase out of single hull tankers and a phase out scheme for the carriage of heavy grade fuel oil in single hull tankers Marine Environment Protection Committee, document MEPC 50 3, annex 1, resolution MEPC.111(50).

That's a key trend, which is decentralization, moving from centralized nuclear power plants and liquid natural gas tankers to decentralized resources that are environmentally more friendly, a lot more efficient and capable and safe from disruption.

Oil producers can also restrict supply by holding oil inventory in tankers at sea or in other storage facilities. Conversely, producers can put more oil on the market by increasing production or by running down their inventories.

The ban on tank washing, technical features such as double hulls and sectioning of tanks, introduction of one way sea lanes and, most important, the use of Global Positioning Systems, have greatly reduced the amount of oil entering the sea from tankers.

Additional requirements resulted mainly from the unbudgeted procurement of 12 heavy trucks and 16 fuel tankers due to the fact that there were fewer contingent owned equipment transport assets than planned and the scope of the turnkey fuel contract was more limited than planned.

In particular, Iraq refers to exploration for oil operation of refineries and petrochemical industries overgrazing extraction of groundwater operation of oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and contamination resulting from the Iran Iraq conflict as sources of environmental damage both before and after the invasion and occupation.

24. Urges States and regional economic integration organizations to work within the framework of the International Maritime Organization and in accordance with the Convention and international rules and regulations regarding measures related to the phase out of single hull tankers, and welcomes the organization's giving priority to the consideration of any proposals related thereto

(d) Detecting (at any time of day or night and in any weather) and appraising the scale of oil spills in the ocean resulting from accidents involving oil tankers or from the deliberate dumping of oil, with the aid of data supplied by satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radars of the Arkon 2 type

Pollutants from the oil well fires and damaged oil wells in Kuwait Oil spills into the Persian Gulf from pipelines, offshore terminals and tankers Influx of refugees into the territories of some of the Claimants Operations of military personnel and equipment Mines and other remnants of war and Exposure of the populations of the Claimants to pollutants from the oil well fires and oil spills in Kuwait and to hostilities and various acts of violence.