Tag: oil spill

The Coast Guard responded to a crude oil spill that reportedly discharged from a Shell subsea well-head flow line, approximately 90 miles south of Timbalier Island, Louisiana, Thursday.

The US Department of Justice has announced that under a consent decree, a Louisiana company will pay $615,000 in federal penalties for crude oil spills and other Clean Water Act violations, pay Louisiana $100,000 for civil penalties and response costs, and carry out remedial measures to prevent future spills. Among other things, the company was accused of failure to comply with a US Coast Guard order addressing one of the cleanup efforts.

The grounded container ship TS Taipei split on two and spilled fuel off Keelung, Taiwan. The vessel suffered damages from the storm and hull cracked, spilling sufficient quantity of oil from ruptured bunker tanks. The ship’s wreck is on risk from capsizing, which can cause additional pollution from spillage of more heavy fuel and hazardous materials from the containers on board.

The Taiwanese cargo ship T.S. Taipei recently broke apart and became stranded on a reef near Shihmen in New Taipei City, causing a massive oil slick. An oil slick from a stricken cargo ship off Taiwan's north coast could cause "massive" devastation to the area's sea life, environmentalists warned, as clean-up workers scrambled to contain the leak.

USCG investigates the oil spill occurred on Sunday in the vicinity of the 577-foot cargo ship, MOL's Istra Ace and continues clean-up efforts. The USCG says the spill in the Port of L.A., which was linked to MOL vessel Istra Ace, may have been caused by faulty piping on board the ship.

Oiled seabirds recently cared for by International Bird Rescue have been conclusively traced back to a leaking cargo ship that sunk off the coast of California more than 60 years ago.

The first hearing of the trial of a former BP rig supervisor over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster reveals that the supervisor ignored a clear red flag and should be held partly responsible or the 2010 oil spill.

Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced the captain of the Prestige oil tanker to two years in prison, overturning a previous sentence which cleared him of criminal responsibility.

US Department announced that the Turkish Ship Management company, Ciner Gemi Acente Isletni Sanayi Ve Ticaret S.A. and two employees pleaded guilty and were sentenced in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS). The company will pay over $1 million criminal fine for Marine Oil Pollution Crimes.

ITOPF has released Oil Tanker Spill Statistics for 2015 which reveals that the downward trend in oil spills from tankers continues. For the last three and a half decades the average number of incidents involving large oil spills, i.e. greater than 700 tonnes, from tankers has progressively reduced and since 2010 stands at an average of 1.8 per year.