Tag: oil spill

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) reported that on 3 April an oil patch was sighted in the eastern Johor Strait.

A containership docked at Keelung Port has spilled oil during refuelling, contaminating several nearby vessels on 16 March.

Four Dutch crew members of the Van Oord dredger Vox Maxima have pleaded guilty to failing to discharge their duties properly in connection with the allision with the Marine Honour, a Singapore-flagged bunker vessel, which occurred on June 14, 2024.

On 2 March, approximately 5,000 liters of an oil-water mixture leaked from a tank into the Elbe River at a company site in Hamburg.

The Singapore Police Force has confirmed that a diesel oil leak was discovered at the Police Coast Guard (PCG) Brani Regional Base on 5 February 2025, at around 11.40am Singapore Time).

Authorities have completed the fuel oil removal from the sunken tanker Volgoneft-239, which ran aground in the Kerch Strait in mid-December 2024.

Ten oil spills of more than seven tonnes were recorded from tanker incidents in 2024, the same number as in 2023, according to ITOPF.

An emergency task force, including Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov, was deployed to the southern Krasnodar region to address an ongoing oil spill in the Kerch Strait.

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on 4 January in Crimea following the oil spill in the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea.

Russian investigators have revised their assessment of an oil spill that occurred mid-December in the Black Sea, stating that it was smaller than initially estimated.