Officials hope to eventually transfer all the oil to another barge in coming days.
Lucia Whalen called the police July 16 to report that she saw two men using their shoulders to "barge in" a house.
But a severe storm caused the offshore waters to fill with ice, leaving the barge unable to get in, said Jason Evans, the company's chairman.
The worst thing America could do now is to barge back out in the same reckless fashion.
Houston contractor Parker Drilling (nyse: PKD - news - people ) has had its share of woes since building Sunkar, a barge designed to drill in the icy, shallow waters of the Caspian.
Then in 2012 Shell faced permitting delays on its Arctic Challenger barge, which is to meant to help capture oil in the event of a Deepwater Horizon-style blowout.
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Then on New Year's Eve, the drill barge Kulluk had to be cut loose in a severe storm while being towed back to its winter home port in Seattle.
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) Barges transporting commerce idled among the nearly four dozen vessels stacked up Tuesday along a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River, denied transit as crews feverishly sought to clean up leaking oil spilled in a weekend barge accident.
But those same subtleties and nuances often elude federal policymakers and contracting officers, so it is quite possible for arrivistes to kluge together off-the-shelf technologies and barge in on competitions like the Army countermeasures program sounding like they are on the cutting edge of military technology.
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Replacement prop Healy drew two defenders on a barge through the middle to tee up McFadden for a sprint in under the posts.
Autocrats know that opening the door to democracy a bit risks letting the mutinous masses barge the whole way in.
The nation lacks the rail capacity to haul grain to ports like Houston or Portland, and it would take 60 tractor trailers (and a fortune in diesel fuel) to move the contents of just one barge.
The owner of one of Kahn's more eccentric ventures, a concrete boat designed as a music barge in the 1960s and still in operation, was stunned to be visited by the child he had met so long ago, and dissolved into a tearful embrace.
Who can forget the story of the garbage barge sailing the coastline and waterways of the United States looking in vain for someone to take it, bury it or use it for landfill -- anything that would take it off the hands of a New York City overwhelmed by waste.
The reserve is supposed to kick in when bad weather disrupts the delivery of oil, which in New England travels by barge and truck instead of pipelines.
Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.
The Kulluk is a circular barge 266 feet in diameter with a funnel-shaped, reinforced steel hull that allows it to operate in ice.
Flooding in the Midwest is a horror story for the barge transport business, with grains not getting to market and earnings taking a short-term hit.
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