Sentence examples for source of the spill from inspiring English sources

The Coast Guard says the source of the spill has been contained.

From Houma, responders fought the oil along the Louisiana shore and out near the source of the spill.

Floating booms can be placed around the source of the spill or at entrances to channels and harbours to reduce the spreading of an oil slick over the sea surface.

The dispersants selected, Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527, were used in large quantities (1.84 million gallons) and also in ways never before used — they were applied directly underwater to the source of the spill.

A mini-submarine stationed on the Research Vessel Seward Johnson is looking at the effect on the coral reefs 200 miles from the source of the spill.

The structure is being slowly lowered to 5,000 feet below the surface to the source of the spill, a pipe gushing oil.

To their dismay, they received a dunning letter from state officials last month demanding $20,811.85 for the cleanup costs and warning of penalties of up to $25,000 a day for nonpayment, even though they had nothing to do with the source of the oil spill.

Before being permanently sealed Sept. 19, the well was the source of the rost oil spill in American history, with 4.9 million barrels of oil leaking into the gulf over nearly five months.

The United States Coast Guard reported late Wednesday that samples from an oil sheen spotted in the Gulf of Mexico last month have been matched to the oil that gushed from the Macondo 252 well, the source of the massive BP oil spill of 2010.

Was BP's sealed Macondo well -- the source of the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history -- leaking?

The company has disputed that the wells, buried under 100 feet of mud from an underwater avalanche triggered by the hurricane, are the source of a massive spill.