Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
Exxon Valdez
Captain Joseph Hazelwood, Former Master of the Exxon Valdez, Passes Away
Captain Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, the Master of the Exxon Valdez when it grounded in Alaska in 1989, has passed away, gCaptain can confirm. He was 75. The Exxon Valdez was…
https://gcaptain.com/captain-joseph-hazelwood-former-master-of-the-exxon-valdez-passes-away/
COLUMN | So many questions: transparency is the answer, sunlight is the best disinfectant [Offshore Accounts]
It’s Ramadan for Muslims, whilst Orthodox Easter Sunday falls on Sunday April 24. Belated Happy Easter to Catholics and Protestants, meanwhile. Both Lent and Ramadan ar ..
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COLUMN | Oil on troubled waters [The Boroscope]
The Seven Stones Reef lies between the Scilly Isles and Lands End. It’s clearly shown on navigation charts surrounded by deep water. Fifty-three years ago, a Suezmax ta ..
Are there any lessons learned from 50 years of offshore oil disasters?
Oil spill incidents seem to occur more nowadays. Thinking of major oil spills, there were three major ones that took place in the US, starting from Santa Barbara in 1969, Exxon Valden in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010.
According to Ocean Conservancy, the three oil spills highlight a pattern according to which a major offshore oil disaster occurs in the United States every two decades. Each spill is worse than the last, increasing from 3 million to 11 million to 210 million gallons spilled....
https://safety4sea.com/are-there-any-lessons-learned-from-50-years-of-offshore-oil-disasters/
Alaskan Senator Introduces New Oil Spill Fund Bill
The bill was introduced on the 30-year anniversary of the Exxon Waldez spill in Prince William Sound.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/274075/alaskan-senator-introduces-new-oil-spill-fund-bill/
Alaskan Senator permanently reauthorizes oil spill fund
US Senator Dan Sullivan introduced the Spill Response and Prevention Surety Act, legislation to modify and permanently reauthorize the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. The move coincides with the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez which caused one of the most shocking environmental disasters in the history of US.
The fund was established under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to ensure the federal government is able to pay for the swift removal of spilled oil and...
https://safety4sea.com/alaskan-senator-permanently-reauthorizes-oil-spill-fund/
Alaska senator introduces oil spill fund bill
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, introduced the Spill Response and Prevention Surety Act to modify and permanently reauthorize the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. The fund was established under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990to ensure that the federal government is able to pay for the removal of spilled oil and compensate individuals, communities and businesses affected by an oil spill.
“The Exxon Valdez oil spill taught us that speed and well-placed infrastructure can mean the...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/alaska-senator-introduces-oil-spill-fund-bill/