"Monitoring by the oil spill response vessels escorting the tow confirmed that there were no signs of a discharge of oil during the transit, " the team said in a news release.
Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
Foreign-flagged vessels are not required to carry plans for oil spill response or salvage, except for ports where they intend to dock.
The Unified Command said three additional tugs are on standby along with the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley and two oil spill response vessels.
An oil spill response barge, the Arctic Challenger, which Shell promised the U.S. Coast Guard was "Arctic ready, " is in Washington state, beset with technical problems.
Campbell says the robots are versatile, and the operators are "top guns" who, in the case of the BP oil disaster response, each has at least 12 years of piloting experience.
But he acknowledged that he'd have to earn the trust of fishermen and others who say they've received conflicting information about the oil spill response from BP and various government agencies.
Cairn had claimed that the raid on its Edinburgh offices was part of a GPI-led Greenpeace campaign to get hold of Cairns's oil spill response plan and encourage a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic.
Earlier this month, Greenpeace claimed Gazprom's oil spill response plan went out of date in July and says that - according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency - the company has not submitted or approved a new one.
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Fears of a disruption now emanate from Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, in response to a European Union embargo on Tehran's oil as way to pressure it to give up its controversial nuclear program.
The Libyan government said Wednesday it was boosting security at its oil fields in response to the Algerian attack.
"We don't want the cure to be worse than the disease, " said Glenn Plumb, a National Park Service official involved in the oil-spill response.
The NTSB staff concluded that if the required oil spill-response plan had been thoroughly reviewed before the leak, it would not have been approved.
While it was being towed, the Kulluk was accompanied by a Coast Guard cutter and two oil-spill response ships, the incident response team said.
The OECD released strategic oil reserves in response to the situation in Libya to help bring down prices temporarily, but with the exception of a fall in WTI crude prices in the U.S., oil prices have remained steady despite the gathering clouds over the economy.
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Hurricane season in the Gulf began on Tuesday, threatening to further complicate the response to the oil spill.
One theory is that both shares and oil have been rising in response to common factors: buoyant economic growth and profits, and low interest rates.
But supply surprises have also played a role, particularly in oil, where the supply response to higher prices has been sluggish even by its standards.
It is from this staging area and 16 others like it all across the Gulf Coast that our response to the oil spill is being carried out.
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Although no longer justified, the diesel's reputation for being slow, smelly, noisy, unreliable and difficult to start in cold weather has lingered since the 1980s, when Detroit rushed out half-baked designs in response to the oil crisis.
On Wednesday, Canada will take over the council chairmanship in a meeting that will include signing a treaty on oil-spill preparedness and response as well as the decision on whether to increase the roster of permanent observers, with India, Japan, Italy and the European Union joining China and others on the list.
Mix was charged last year with deleting text messages about the company's response to the Gulf oil spill.
It was just like his belated, ineffectual response on the BP oil spill.
No doubt CAFE, a legislative response to the 1973 oil crisis ultimately enacted in 1975, is as dated as Neil Sedaka.
Before I make a statement on the economy, I just want to offer an update on the ongoing federal response to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Instead, it was established in response to the Saudi oil embargo in the fall of 1973 (to punish us for our support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War), an embargo that was blamed for fuel shortages and gas lines.
These will be the first U.S. highways to break the 80 mph barrier (Texas and Utah have each tried 80 mph limits) since President Richard Nixon enacted a national speed limit of 55 mph in response to the 1973 oil crisis.
And then there was Richard Nixon mandating a national 55-mph speed limit to help conserve gas in response to the OPEC oil embargo, which served to make everyone at the time driving a big V8-powered car grumpy (and subsequently helped reduce traffic fatalities).
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South Africa's response to its lack of oil contrasts with that of other similarly disadvantaged modern economies.
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