Royal Navy divers assessed the damage and confirmed there were no oil leaks.
Hamilton's McLaren teammate Jenson Button, ended the day in the ninth after both his practice sessions were disrupted by oil leaks.
As for random window cracks and fuel and oil leaks, Boeing can solve these kinds of problems without much difficulty, he says.
The trial will determine the causes of the spill, and assign responsibility to the parties involved, including BP, Halliburton, Transocean, and Cameron, which manufactured the blowout preventer meant to stop oil leaks.
The prosecution asked the judges to force Shell to do three things: clean up the mess created by oil leaks in the three villages, repair and maintain the defective pipelines and pay compensation.
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Those costs would only increase, possibly exponentially, in the event regulators responded to public concerns that further oil leaks might emanate from offshore platforms by cutting back on production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaking to the BBC before the hearing, one of the plaintiffs, Friday Alfred Akpan from the village of Ikot Ada Udo, said the oil leaks in his village had badly damaged his 47 fish ponds.
The abandoned, unexploded ordnance, combined with oil from leaks or deliberately flooded trenches, has left a hazardous environment for rehabilitation workers to operate in.
Other problems linked to the Dreamliner -- such as oil and fuel leaks or damaged cockpit windows -- are operational issues that occur aboard "every airliner out there flying today, " says Hiatt.
And in some regions, cottonseed hulls are processed into oil-drilling mud, a sticky, industrial-strength type of Play-Doh that is used to plug leaks in oil wells.
"This work has many real-world applications including seabed exploration, detecting leaks in oil pipelines, mine countermeasures, and improving the performance of underwater vehicles, " he said.
These include placing a dome directly over the leaks to catch the oil and send it up to the surface, where it could be collected by ships.
The best way to minimize leaks is to replace this aging network with modern pipelines such as the one planned for the Keystone XL, which use technology that instantly recognizes leaks and immediately shuts down oil flow.
Control-room operators, in a mock-up of a real off-shore control room, can be trained to deal with a range of tricky situations including explosions, leaks of poisonous gas and oil-well blow-outs, without the risk of so much as a scratch.
Now, even though refined plans show an alternate route, environmentalists worry that if the expected 500, 000 to 700, 000 barrels of crude oil flow through the pipeline each day, leaks could contaminate the water and soil.
By contrast, oil pipelines carry far more crude and have fewer leaks per mile.
In addition, the firm had to close part of its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska earlier this year, after leaks were discovered in one of its pipes.
ConocoPhillips, the Houston-based operator of the wells in the Penglai 19-3 field, says only 1, 500 barrels of oil had been released in the incidents and that both leaks have been brought under control.
The flaring of natural gas, which often accompanies oil production, produces an array of air pollutants, and leaks and spills release toxins ranging from volatile chemicals, like benzene (a known carcinogen), to much heavier compounds, like benzopyrene (another known carcinogen).
Mr Clayton said there were concerns about possible environmental damage if oil started leaking from the vessel, but there have been no reports of any leaks.
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