The company that operates the pipeline that spilled an estimated 3,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean off California has an 800-page manual on handling an oil spill - but it is unclear whether its employees followed those procedures.
The company that operates a pipeline that spilled an estimated 3,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean off California has an 800-page manual on handling an oil spill but it is unclear whether its employees followed those procedures.
Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp and several state and US federal regulatory agencies have provided differing accounts of what happened on Oct. 2, when the pipeline spill that fouled beaches, killed wildlife and closed down fishing along kilometers of coastline was officially reported.
The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said that Beta Offshore, an Amplify subsidiary that operates the pipeline,