Singapore intensifies oil spill clean up after it spreads along coast
- 16-Jun-2024
SINGAPORE: An oil spill off southern Singapore has spread to other areas of the island’s coast and is threatening a marine reserve, government agencies said, adding that authorities were intensifying efforts to mop up the fuel. The oil spilled into Singaporean waters after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel on Friday afternoon […]
Oil spill blackens part of Venezuela’s western coast
- 30-Dec-2023
An oil spill is sloshing tarry ooze onto beaches in the state of Carabobo along Venezuela’s western coastline, several environmental groups said on Wednesday. The spill was first detected on Tuesday, Yohan Flores, a regional director of the Azul Ambientalistas NGO, told AFP. “A large part of the beaches of Puerto Cabello are affected,” he […]
Spanish energy giant agrees to compensate thousands over oil spill
- 05-Mar-2022
LIMA: Peru on Friday announced an agreement with Spanish energy giant Repsol to compensate thousands of people affected by a devastating oil spill that polluted beaches and killed wildlife. Almost 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the sea off Peru on January 15 as a tanker unloaded oil at a Repsol owned refinery. Peru’s government […]
Oil spill pollutes nature reserve in Ecuadoran Amazon
- 01-Feb-2022
QUITO: An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country’s environmental ministry said Monday. Nearly two hectares (five acres) of a protected area of the Cayambe-Coca national park have been contaminated, as well as the Coca river — one of the […]
Dying mother dolphin struggles to save baby in Mauritius lagoon after oil spill
- 28-Aug-2020
The footage - obtained by Reuters from a fisherman who tried to help rescue the dolphins - showed the last desperate moments of the mother and her calf before they both died.
Japanese ship involved in Mauritius oil spill breaks apart
- 16-Aug-2020
The vessel struck a coral reef on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and endangering corals, fish and other marine life in what some scientists have called the country’s worst ecological disaster.
Oil spill threatens rare Bangladesh dolphin breeding zone
- 27-Oct-2019
A tanker carrying 1,200 tonnes of diesel collided with another ship on the Karnaphuli river near Chittagong port Friday and spilled tonnes of fuel, port authority spokesman Omar Faruk said.
Tanker carrying palm oil cargo overturned near Nawabshah
- 27-Apr-2019
Recently this month, a Sahiwal bound tanker carrying 44,000 litres of furnace oil from Karachi had overturned near Karimabad, also in Nawabshah district.
Oil tanker overturns in Daska, passerby killed
- 03-Apr-2019
Oil was spilling from the tanker, which upturned at the road before claiming the life of a passerby woman. The incident said to be result of reckless driving.
Most oil spill at Mubarak Village cleared in ‘clean-up’, says PMSA
- 29-Oct-2018
KARACHI: Five days after oil spill was reported at scenic Mubarak Village coast, the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) says the most of the oil spill affecting the beach has been cleared in an ongoing operation being taken up by a number of stakeholders. “Seventy per cent of the affected area has been cleaned up […]