oil spill definition

oil spill means spillage of petroleum of at least five hundred litres;
oil spill means any actual or probable release, discharge or escape of oil; “Oily mixture” means a mixture with any oil content;
oil spill means any actual or probable release, discharge or escape of oil;

Examples of oil spill in a sentence

  • A call can be placed twenty-four hours a day with the New York State Oil Spill Hotline at 0-000-000-0000.

  • Oil spillages must be contained and cleaned as per Oil Spill Management procedure 15 ENPRENV-001.

  • If the recipient is authorized to make subawards, the recipient must not use Direct Component funds to make subawards to fund activities for which any claim for compensation was filed and paid out by the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund after July 6, 2012.

  • The recipient must not seek any compensation for the approved program or project from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

  • If the Recipient is authorized to make subawards, the Recipient will not use RESTORE Act funds to make subawards to fund any activities for which claims were filed with the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund after July 6, 2012.


More Definitions of oil spill

oil spill means the discharge of crude oil from a 12-inch diameter pipeline known as Line 257 near the intersection of Illinois Highway 83 and South Highwood Drive near Lockport, Will County, Illinois on December 13-14, 2010.
oil spill means a discharge of oil into the environment from, or out of, a structure, a vehicle, a vessel, a craft or any other carrier or container, which –
oil spill means the discharge of oil from the M/T Command into the Pacific Ocean outside San Francisco Bay and in the Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries on or about September 26, 1998. Some of the oil eventually washed ashore on beaches in San Mateo County, California.
oil spill means any actual or probable release, discharge, or escape of oil into Fiji waters and for the purposes of these Regulations, shall have the meaning as that of “marine oil spill” under section 2 of the Decree;
oil spill means spillage of petroleum of at least 500 litres;
oil spill means the discharge of oil into the Pacific Ocean from the pipeline connecting Platform Irene to an onshore pipeline facility in Santa Barbara County, California on or about September 28, 1997. The oil came ashore at sandy beaches and rocky intertidal areas from Minuteman Beach to the Boathouse on Vandenberg Air Force Base and impacted at least seventeen miles of Santa Barbara coastline.
oil spill means the grounding of the steam tanker, AMERICAN TRADER, on February 7, 1990 at the Golden West Marine Terminal and the resulting oil spill and response activity.