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...
Prestige
Court upholds $1.8 billion compensation from Prestige oil spill
Spain’s Supreme Court decided that the captain and the insurer of the Prestige oil tanker must pay over 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in compensation for Spain’s biggest environmental disaster and one of Europe’s worst oil spills. The Prestige oil tanker had sank in 2002.
The court ruled that the captain and insurer of the ship must pay the damages to Spain, France and authorities in Spain’s Galicia region, as well as to 269 companies, communities and individuals that the spill impacted.
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Learn from the past: Prestige sinking, one of the worst oil spills in Europe
The 13rd of November marks 16 years after the Greek-owned and Bahamas-operated tanker ‘Prestige’ encountered heavy weather during a routine voyage and eventually sank off the coast of Spain, causing the worst environmental disaster in the country and one of the greatest oil spills in Europe.
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