Tag: oil spill

A heavy fuel oil discharge was reported on Monday, 23 of April, at the river near Norco, Louisiana. Namely, 1,400 gallons of fuel oil was discharged into the river, by the chemical tanker "Iver Exporter." The source of the discharge is secured and the vessel is currently moored at the Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

US Senators introduced the Clean Coast Act, a legislation aiming to address key safety recommendations made after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, to protect US coasts from oil spills. In particular, the bill codifies the Blowout Preventer Systems & Well Control Rule and the Arctic Drilling Rule.

The Deepwater Horizon explosion is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in 11 deaths, 17 injuries and a discharge of about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the sea, leaving a heavy legacy in the safety history of oil and gas industry.

The anchor of the Panama-flagged bulk carrier 'Ever Judger' has reportedly caused the rupture of an underwater pipeline, which resulted in a massive oil spill in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on 31 March, which caused fatality of five fishermen who were at the scene and were caught in the blaze.

The Singapore-flagged LPG tanker 'Crystal Sunrise' collided with the Greece-registered tanker 'Astro Saturn', in the morning hours of 17 April, about one nautical mile south of Tuas Extension, in Singapore territorial waters. As a result, butane had started to leak from one of Crystal Sunrise's cargo tanks.

The Unified Command has announced that the American Transmission Company will use sonar scanning technology and a remotely operated underwater vehicle to assess damage to the affected utility cables in the Straits of Mackinac. ATC contracted with Durocher Marine and T&T Subsea to provide tugs, a barge, and an ROV to assess the damage to the utility cables.

The US Coast Guard and local agencies responded to an oil spill near mile marker 100, on the lower Mississippi River, near New Orleans, after the Singapore-flagged vessel 'Pac Antares' hit a pier on Thursday morning causing an estimated 4,200 gallons of oil fuel to discharge. 

The US Coast Guard and local agencies are responding to a crude oil spill in Bay Jacques, Louisiana, which happened on Tuesday April 3. A crude oil storage tank developed a leak and caused an estimated 4,200 gallons of Louisiana crude oil to discharge. Response personnel are assessing the impacted area and will perform manual recovery of the crude oil.

During his presentation at the last GREEN4SEA Conference, Mr. David Nichol, Senior Loss Prevention Executive at Thomas Miller (Hellas) Ltd., focused on bunker spills, examining their root causes and what loss prevention measures can be implemented to combat them. Mr. Nichol noted that spills into the marine environment relating to bunkering operations continue to occur with worrying regularity.

Indonesian state-owned energy giant Pertamina took over the responsibility for an oil spill off Balikpapan, which caused a fatal fire, on 31st of March. The company had initially denied involvement on the incident, but it said Wednesday that the spill was caused by an underwater pipeline that cracked during its clean up operations.