Full tank.Full Tank: State officials said that California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). refiners have lined up enough replacement crude oil to prevent any cutbacks in gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by production in the wake of the loss of key Alaskan oil. BP plc had abruptly a·brupt adj. 1. Unexpectedly sudden: an abrupt change in the weather. 2. Surprisingly curt; brusque: an abrupt answer made in anger. 3. halted production at the Prudhoe Bay Prudhoe Bay, inlet of the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean, N Alaska, in the Alaska North Slope region, east of the Colville River delta. In 1968 one of the largest oil reserves in North America was discovered in Prudhoe Bay. oil field in Alaska, which produces about 400,000 barrels a day, after the company discovered corrosion in the pipelines. After initially shutting down production, the company got permission to keep about half of the oil flowing while it makes other repairs. West Coast refineries had been worried about the effect the closure would have on gas prices--as much as 20 percent of the crude oil processed in California each year comes from Prudhoe, with much of that used by five of the state's 14 refineries. |
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