Tag: oil spill

Days before emergency operations are to take place to secure a decaying oil tanker threat, a UN Humanitarian Coordinator urged the public to help with funding to prevent a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea.

Spain won support from Europe's top court in its mutlimillion euros damage claim against The London Steam-Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association for a massive oil spill on its northwestern coast two decades ago.

A social media campaign launched by the United Nations aims to bring the world closer to prevent FSO Safer, anchored off Yemen, from causing an oil spill that could spell disaster for the region and beyond. 

Data from ITOPF shows that six oil spills over 7 tonnes were recorded from tanker incidents in 2021. This is a slight increase on 2020, but on a par with the average for the 2010s and a dramatic reduction from the numbers reported in earlier decades.

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.