Strikes against oilfield services company Wood Group have been staged sporadically on platforms in the North Sea operated by Royal Dutch Shell.

You see a lot of oil on the ocean.

Turtles eat it. It gets in the gills of fish.

d. Oil platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States

You see a lot of oil on the shoreline.

It was actually developed for use by the offshore oil industry for diving on oil rigs down to a depth of 2,000 feet.

When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the ocean.

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.

Oil in the Gulf, Then and Now

This is 1988 we actually bombed two Iranian oil platforms that year.

Because you've got to include the man who grew the coffee, which was brewed for the man who was on the oil rig, who was drilling for oil, which was going to be made into the plastic, etc.

The platform where that accident happened, called Ixtoc 1, was operated by Pemex, the state owned Mexican oil company. The two accidents and the spills they caused have a number of similar features, although marine oil spills in general have profoundly changed in character in the three decades between the two events.

This estimate does not include the coastal oil trench and coastal oil deposit as contamination in those areas was not caused by invasion related oil spills modelled by OSCAR.

You see a lot of oil on the ocean.

(c) Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America, concerning the destruction of three offshore oil platforms owned and operated by the National Iranian Oil Company.

Case concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States), 2003 I.C.J.

You see a lot of oil on the shoreline.

These include the 1983 Nowruz oil spill and other events during the Iran Iraq war the operation of oil platforms, terminals and oil processing facilities as well as natural seeps in the Persian Gulf.

The Court followed this precedent and took the Treaty as applicable in Oil Platforms.

Because they have an entire economic system that's dependent on that oil foreign oil, oil from other parts of the world that they don't own.

Not just BP.

It would not take an awful lot to anticipate that after making 30,000 holes in the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico looking for oil, oil might start coming out of one of them.

Third claim unit Increased mortality Saudi Arabia seeks compensation in the amount of USD 5,549,312,879 for increased mortality in Saudi Arabia due to airborne particulate matter from the oil well fires in Kuwait, from disturbance of desert areas by military activities and from the large number of diesel powered military vehicles used for military operations.

Five months earlier, more than 200 gallons of oil had spilled into the sea at Pockwood Pond, Tortola, during a ship to shore hose operation from an oil tanker to a gas station.

See also the judgment on Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Preliminary Objection), ICJ Reports, 1996, p. 803.

Oil Platforms (Iran v. United States), merits, para. 125 (International Court of Justice, 6 November 2003), 42 ILM 1334 (2003).

VIENNA On April 20, an explosion on Deepwater Horizon, a British Petroleum (BP) operated oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, led to the most publicized oil spill in decades. Another blowout in the same waters 31 years ago, farther south on the Mexican side of the Gulf, turned into the largest peacetime oil spill ever.

At the same time, oil hedging not only raises oil prices but results in huge reserves of cash in oil producing countries.

New technical concepts for launching (e.g. from platforms on the high sea)

Oil doesn't sink, it floats.

It was oil.

As the easy to find oil was pumped first, exploration moved into deep waters, or distant countries, using increasing amounts of energy to do so.

In response to a question at the routine press conference on the 27th, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson An Fengshan said that peaceful development in cross Strait relations is the fundamental guarantee of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Engaging in Taiwan Independence activities is the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

In fact, it's going to require twice the world's supply of oil to run the pumps to generate the water.

The world is running out of oil.

Oil. Oil. This was a big topic.

The scientists I was with were not studying the effect of the oil and dispersants on the big stuff the birds, the turtles, the dolphins, the glamorous stuff.

The increasing development of offshore oil exploration makes it necessary to work throughout the year with petroleum systems models based on the use of an increasing number of seismic lines.

The main sea based sources of marine litter are merchant shipping, ferries and cruise liners, fishing vessels (mainly as a source of abandoned or lost fishing gear), military fleets, research vessels, pleasure craft, offshore oil and gas platforms and aquaculture installations.

Iraq argues that Iran has failed to provide any conclusive evidence to show that the oil on its coastline (or any ascertainable proportion of the oil) came from the 1991 spills.

The decision of the Court in the Oil Platforms case also rested upon the assumption that the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights of 1955, remained in force.

See Pieter H. F. Bekker, International Decision Oil Platforms (Iran v. United States), International Court of Justice, 6 November 2003, 98 American Journal of International Law 550, n. 2 (David D. Caron, ed., 2004).

There are 98 oil producing nations in the world.

Kuwait relies on victims' records in the databases of the Public Authority for Assessment of Compensation for Damages Resulting from Iraqi Aggression and the Ministry of Health's Artificial Limb Centre to calculate the number of victims of mines and ordnance explosions, and to assess the extent of their injuries.

Its major commercial applications included coastal zone and environmental monitoring, marine navigation, offshore oil and gas operation, natural disaster mitigation and coastal and deep ocean fishing.