Quake info: Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - 12 km north of Bandar-e Genāveh, Bushehr, Iran, on 21 May 4:22 pm (GMT +4:30) - 5 user experience reports volcanodiscovery.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from volcanodiscovery.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Earthquake in southern Iran disrupts oil production: state media
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in southern Iran partially has damaged a critical oil facility and disrupted production, state television reported April 18.
The temblor caused a ceiling to collapse at the Goureh pump station and a turbine to go out of service, Houshang Seidali, managing director of Gachsaran Oil and Gas Co., was quoted as saying. The outage has halted some crude production, though he did not provide any details.
Workers were on the scene to try and restore operations, he added.
Gachsaran Oil and Gas Co. produces more than 600,000 b/d of crude and more than 1 Bcf/d of gas, officials said in 2019.
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The temblor caused a ceiling to collapse at the Goureh pump station and a turbine to go out of service, Houshang Seidali, managing director of Gachsaran Oil and Gas Co., was quoted as saying. The outage has halted some crude production, though he did not provide any details.
Workers were on the scene to try and restore operations, he added.
Gachsaran Oil and Gas Co. produces more than 600,000 b/d of crude and more than 1 Bcf/d of gas, officials said in 2019.
The company has operations in oil fields covering four provinces: Bushehr, Fars, Khuzestan and Kohgilouyeh-Boyrahamd. It also operates the Goureh pump station and oil export facilities.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
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New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a