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ASA Helps Out on South Korean Oil Spill
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The oil tanker Hebei Spirit, anchored 60 miles south of Seoul, was pierced by a crane-carrying barge, releasing 11,023 tons of crude oil into the sea. The oil came ashore along a 186 miles stretch of shoreline on Korea's west coast, a region that is a very active with fisheries. The spill resulted in blackened beaches, coated birds in oily tar and cast a foul smell over a nature reserve. Korea's neighbors in China offered support to Korea based on the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Northwest Pacific Action Plan. ASA's OILMAP oil spill modeling response system is used in China and the Oil Spill Emergency Response Center of China's Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) asked Applied Science Associates (ASA) for support. Dr. Xiongping Zhang, ASA's Asia
OILMAP model simulation shows the oil spill fate and trajectory prediction by ASA that helped China aid Korea's mitigation.
Project Director, provided modeling services to predict the trajectory and fate of the spill right after the accident. OILMAP connects to ASA's COASTMAP real-time environmental data server (EDS), which aggregates crucial Metocean data from various sources to increase the accuracy of the spill predictions. Dr. Zhang also answered the question to China MSA for potential impact of the spill to the China coast using OILMAP's stochastic simulation based on the environmental data over the past twenty years.
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Dear sir, In the article ("Sea Treaty Drowns Property Rights" -- MTR November 2007, pg. 18) Mr. Bowden states "America oil deposits then became the private property of the various drilling companies who brought them to the surface". He overlooked the fact that the drilling companies had purchased the rights to drill from the property owners, and generally share some of the proceeds from any minerals retrieved with the land owners. I wonder what state he's practiced law in. Sincerely, John C. Estes Kingwood, TX Editor's Note: Mr. Estes spent 34 years with Bethlehem Steel Corporation and retired as Asst. Vice President, Shipbuilding Division.
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