Tag: Bohai Bay

China's three busy water areas have shown important reductions in ship emissions, already by 2015, as vessels that voyage in these three areas were obliged to stricter emissions limits, according to Xinhua. The ministry in December 2015 set up ship emission control zones in the three water bodies in a drive to improve air quality, particularly in port cities in the zones.

According to local media reports, the Chinese authorities stopped a gas leak from a South Korean liquefied petroleum gas tanker, at Dongying Anchorage, Shandong Province, China, Bohai sea on January 14. The leak occurred after the ship didn't manage to shut down the valve for one of its cargo tanks. The master notified authorities and asked for anchorage, to fix the valve.

The Bohai Bay oil spills took a toll on the environment in the region

Compensation claims up to $77.54 million A maritime court in the northern coastal city of Tianjin on Friday accepted a case of compensation claims from aquaculture farmers against the China unit of ConocoPhillips, Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday.More than 100 fishermen filed the lawsuit early this month in Tianjin against ConocoPhillips China, seeking 490 million yuan ($77.54 million) in compensation for dead clams they said were killed by a spill from an oilfield operated by ConocoPhillips, according to Xinhua.ConocoPhillips has a 49 percent stake in the field, which is 51 percent owned by China's top offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd.A ConocoPhillips spokesperson said on December 16 that the company had found little evidence that the oil spill from Penglai 19-3 field had damaged the wider environment in Bohai Bay and submitted a revised overall development plan for the field to the central government.Soure: Reuters

String of oil leaks and spills in China's Bohai Bay The State Oceanic Administration of China stated on Friday that it was negligence by a ConocoPhillips subsidiary which caused the recent string of oil leaks and spills in China's Bohai Bay.The SOA released a statement following investigations that found there were serious shortcomings in ConocoPhillips China's management and operations, failing to take preventive measures against oil leaks even after signs of a serious problem emerged. The company also violated environmental impact assessment report requirements, which hindered their ability to respond to the accidents, causing further spillage.The incidents in question took place throughout June at Penglai 19-3, China's largest oil field. It was one problem after another for the ConocoPhillips operated, and state-owned partnered field that has caused major oceanic oil pollution and attracted sharp criticism from maritime authorities and environmentalists. The Chinese administration said that the oil spill covered around 2,400 square miles of surface water.Chinese officials have already ordered ConocoPhillips to stop all production before a full cleanup is conducted and passing a governmental review that is aimed to ensure no more oil makes its way into the ocean.Although Houston-based ConocoPhillips responded on Friday stressing that they are making ...

ConocoPhilips should continue the clean-up work before winter comes No new leak point in seabed have been detected at ConocoPhillips' oil platforms in north China's Bohai Bay, with a decrease of the oil sheen on the sea surface, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said Sunday.After on-the-spot check-up at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield, inspection panel from the SOA said that certain achievements have been made in sealing off the oil spills sources, and the oil sheen on the sea surface have been cleaned immediately.The panel said that the oil leak sources have basically been determined, as well as the possible reason for the sporadic oil sheen.The spills are now under control, yet one or two liters of oil leak into the sea on a daily basis, and sporadic oil spots on the sea surface are still visible.The panel stressed that ConocoPhilips should firmly continue the clean-up work in a bid to achieve the complete seal-off of leak sources before winter comes, with the safety as the precondition.The SOA urged China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), ConocoPhilips' partner, to coordinate in the work, calling for immediate release of related information.More than 5,500 square km of water in Bohai Sea was polluted since ...

ConocoPhillips announced that it would set aside a fund to cover cost Nearly three months after the Bohai Bay oil spill, top-level authorities in China are now ordering a full investigation.ConocoPhillips China, a subsidiary of the Texas-based oil company, is operating the oil field where the spill occurred. The company has been partnering with the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation. ConocoPhillips announced that it would set aside a fund to cover costs resulting from the spills and "benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay." However, the exact amount was not mentioned.

The spills put 3,200 barrels of oil into the bay China's State Council, or Cabinet, on Wednesday ordered relevant departments to thoroughly investigate the ConocoPhillips' oil spills and hand out punishments according to law.Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a cabinet meeting and asked authorities to "ascertain the cause of the incident, as well as its harm and losses," in order to hold the company responsible and safeguard the legal interests of those who have suffered losses, according to a statement released after the meeting.Two oil spills occurred on June 4 and June 17 in Penglai 19-3 oil field in north China's Bohai Bay. The spills put 3,200 barrels of oil into the bay.As of Monday, pollution from the spills has spread across 5,500 square km of sea, resulting in "serious harm to Bohai's marine environment as well as the local fishing industry," said the statement.As the sole operator of the field, the country's largest, ConocoPhillips China (COPC), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Houston-based oil giant ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), has been blamed for the leaks."Relevant departments should urge the company responsible for the incident to locate potential leaking spots, block all leaking sources, carefully clean up all spills and ...

Operations are currently stopped at 180 producing wells and 51 injecting wells The oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay are posing political and technical challenges for the oil company far messier than the crude and drilling mud seeping from the seabed.The company said Monday that it had complied with a government order to suspend all drilling, water injection and production at the affected Penglai 19-3 oil field, one of China's biggest.Operations are currently stopped at 180 producing wells and 51 injecting wells, for a total of 231 wells, said a statement by Houston, Texas-based ConocoPhillips, which operates the field in a venture with state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp.CNOOC, which owns 51 percent of the venture, said the suspension of production in Penglai 19-3 would reduce output by 40,000 barrels a day, in addition to the 22,000 barrels a day lost with the shutdown of the two wells where the spills occurred.For such big oil companies, the loss is not a major blow, though for ConocoPhillips, Penglai 19-3 is its largest project in China, noted Thomas Grieder, analyst for Asia-Pacific energy at IHS Global Insight.The spills began in early June and have unleashed a ...

About 2 liters of oil and drilling mud were being released each day Under fire for oil spills off China's eastern coast, ConocoPhillips says it has finished collecting virtually all oil and drilling mud released into Bohai Bay, meeting a deadline to finish its cleanup by Wednesday.China's State Oceanic Administration, however, criticized the oil company's handling of the spills that began in June and said it would work with those affected, reportedly including scallops growers in the area, to seek compensation for damage.The administration had ordered ConocoPhillips China to complete the cleanup and fully contain the oil seeps by Aug. 31 or face unspecified harsher action.Of 16 small seeps found in the Penglai 19-3 oil field, only two were still visible and known to be sometimes active, ConocoPhillips China said. The seeps are of residual oil and drilling mud that has been shifting to the seabed from beneath a layer of sand, it says."While we are still cleaning up residual material on the seabed ... we believe we have achieved the 'two completes' by the deadline," the company said in a statement.The company, which operates wells in the field in a venture with state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., said ...