Tag: oil spill

Ship-to-ship oil transfers remain suspended in Algoa Bay near Ngqurha (Port Elizabeth) as a national incident management structure strengthens its grip on containment measures of an oil spill at sea that occurred on May 23.

The Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged vessel pleaded guilty to two felony counts for deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the coast of New Orleans last year and then trying to obstruct USCG’s investigation of the spill. 

Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) filed a civil claim against six companies or their alleged liability in the January 15 oil spill off the coast north of Lima.

IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, addressed the threat of the major oil spill from the FSO SAFER – the aging supertanker moored of Yemen’s Red Sea Coast that could break apart or explode at any time.

Liquimar Tankers Management Services and Evridiki Navigation were sentenced after being convicted at trial on all charges, including violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, falsifying ships’ documents, obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection and making false statements to U.S. Coast Guard inspectors. 

Officials are planning to unload cargo (crude oil) from the Ampar 8 ship, after the product tanker exploded on March 27, while mooring at the Bangchak depot the Chao Praya river.

A large-scale oil spill is unlikely from the sunken Felicity Ace car carrier, according to the ship’s manager in a recent update.

Houthis agreed with the United Nations over deal regarding the FSO Safer threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off Yemen's coast.

Britannia Club recently saw an incident where a number of unfortunate events, including the fall of the vessel’s spare main engine cylinder liner, led to an oil spill.

The UN has co-ordinated a deal in Yemen to unload more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker and make safe what officials and experts have described as a ticking environmental time bomb.