One idea that was accepted came from a company in Lynchburg, Va., that sold the city about 3,000 gallons of its product Pyrocool, which, when mixed with water, is intended to absorb heat from a fire until the temperature drops below the point of combustion.
We divided the dollar sales by the unit price to estimate the pounds or gallons of each product sold.
Since 2006, the companies have reported 36 spills totaling 320,000 gallons of petroleum products, most of which was never recovered.
A city of 5m people would release some 42m litres (8.8m gallons) of petroleum products a year, roughly the quantity of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
The terminal can store up to 2.5 million barrels, or more than 100 million gallons of petroleum products, but only 500,000 barrels were stored when the barge exploded.
Modern tires are a mixture of natural and synthetic rubber, carbon black — a material made from petroleum — and somewhere between four and 10 gallons of petroleum products.
It went undiscovered until 1978, when the Coast Guard found a subterranean pool that contained an estimated 17 million gallons of oil products.
In 1978, the Coast Guard found a subterranean pool with 17 million gallons of oil products that had over the years leaked from tanks.
The tanker, the Renda, is carrying more than a million gallons of petroleum products for the Alaskan city, which did not receive its normal barge delivery of winter fuel this past autumn because of shipping delays and severe weather.
According to BP's latest annual report, it sold about 150 million gallons of refined products to service stations, wholesalers and other customers each day of 2009, much of it in the United States.
