Operations at the Port of Gibraltar are on hold after a bunker fuel spill from a ship anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar. The spill occurred at approximately 8:22 a.m….
https://gcaptain.com/bunker-fuel-spill-closes-port-of-gibraltar/
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Mexico’s Pemex Admits Offshore Oil Spill, Downplays Size And Impact
By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The chief executive officer of Mexican state energy oil Pemex on Wednesday sought to downplay an oil spill in the Gulf of…
https://gcaptain.com/mexicos-pemex-admits-offshore-oil-spill-downplays-size-and-impact/
Peru Calls Out Repsol For Paying Tiny Fraction Of Oil Spill Fines
By Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) –Peru’s Environment Minister Albina Ruiz called out Spanish oil firm Repsol SA Thursday for only paying a small fraction of fines tied to the country’s worst oil spill on…
https://gcaptain.com/peru-calls-out-repsol-for-paying-tiny-fraction-of-oil-spill-fines/
Sunken Tug Spills Diesel in Tennessee River
The U.S. Coast Guard and partner agencies are responding to a diesel fuel spill from a sunken tugboat on the Tennessee River, near Florence, Alabama. Most of the fuel is…
https://gcaptain.com/sunken-tug-spills-diesel-in-tennessee-river/
With salvage ops underway, Dutch govt urged to step in for ‘safe and environmentally sound’ FSO recycling
Salvage operations to transfer the oil from a rapidly decaying FSO, moored off Yemen, to a safe vessel are expected to start soon.
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Activist Raise Concern Of Radioactive Risks From Australian Vessel Decommissioning
Spanish energy giant Repsol on Thursday vowed to finish by March cleaning up a devastating oil spill that has 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.
Time Taking“We expect that if the weather allows us then, in mid-March” the cleaning of beaches and islands off the coast will be completed, Repsol’s environmental security director Jose Terol told...
Shell Wins UK Supreme Court Case on 2011 Oil Spill Off Nigerian Coast
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) – The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it was too late for Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell SHEL.L subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill they…
https://gcaptain.com/shell-wins-uk-supreme-court-case-on-2011-oil-spill-off-nigerian-coast/
MSC reaches settlement deal with Amplify’s subrogated insurers
Container shipping major MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has entered into a settlement agreement with […]
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Ghost Tankers: Spain Urges UN To Clamp Down On Ship-to-Ship Oil Transfers
by Jonathan Saul (Reuters) Spain has called for tighter scrutiny of oil transfers involving tankers at sea as the number of unregulated ships hit by sanctions grows and raises pollution risks, a U.N….
https://gcaptain.com/ghost-tankers-spain-urges-un-to-clamp-down-on-ship-to-ship-oil-transfers/
Russia’s Oil Tanker Ghost Fleet Is A Time Bomb
By James Stavridis (Bloomberg) Most people focus on the land and air aspects of the war in Ukraine, naturally enough — they are vivid and constantly being recorded and broadcast across…
https://gcaptain.com/russias-oil-tanker-ghost-fleet-is-a-time-bomb/