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01/08/2025ABOUT 7,500 LITERS OF DIESEL SPILLED INTO THE BALTIMORE RIVER, US
An oil spill in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 4 turned parts of the Inner Harbor red and prompted cleanup efforts to be underway. The fuel spilled from diesel tanks belonging to a supplier to Johns Hopkins Hospital. According to the Maryland Department of the Environment, the leak caused about 7,500 liters of diesel to flow […]
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01/08/2025NIGERIA OIL SPILL
According to a VNA correspondent in Africa, independent Nigerian oil producer Renaissance Africa Energy Co. Ltd confirmed on May 19 that an illegal connection on its Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline in Oshika community in coastal Rivers state had caused a local oil spill. The company said it immediately isolated the pipeline and stopped production to minimize potential […]
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01/08/2025RUSSIA BANS OIL EXPORTS UNTIL AUGUST 2025
The Russian government on July 28 decided to ban oil exports by major producers until August 2025, with a possible extension until September 2025. The ban comes amid record-high oil prices on the exchange. The decision is aimed at maintaining stability in the domestic fuel market during a period of high seasonal demand and agricultural […]
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01/08/2025CARGO SHIP SINKS OFF INDIA, FEARS OF SPILLING EXTREMELY TOXIC CHEMICALS INTO THE SEA
A cargo ship carrying 85 tons of diesel oil, 367 tons of fuel oil, and 12 containers of calcium carbide has just sunk 38 nautical miles off the city of Kochi (India). According to India Today, on the morning of May 25, the Liberian-flagged cargo ship MSC ELSA 3 capsized and sank 38 nautical miles […]
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01/08/2025ECUADOR: DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER OIL SPILL
Ecuador has declared an environmental emergency after a massive oil spill on the Esmeraldas River, which has polluted water supplies and affected people’s lives. Ecuadorian authorities have declared an environmental emergency after a massive oil spill in the northwest of the country, severely polluting the Esmeraldas River and affecting people’s drinking water sources. The spill […]
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01/08/2025RUSSIA ESTIMATES THE COST OF THE BLACK SEA OIL SPILL AT $1 BILLION
More than three months after the Black Sea oil spill, cleanup efforts continue in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Damages could reach $1 billion. Local authorities reported that approximately 800 tons of oil-contaminated materials have been collected to date. Russian President Putin called it the worst environmental disaster in recent years, saying that efforts to clean up […]
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10/07/2025DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE GENERAL SPILL RESPONSE PROCEDURE?
10/07/2025 – There are many ways to respond to the spill procedure. There may be various ways to make handicrafts, or some ways are more complicated; however, to ensure the process, we all have THE GENERAL SPILL RESPONSE PROCEDURE, which can be applied to almost all liquid spills. Only trained crew (having the required materials […]
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23/06/2025Why Did ‘Shocking’ Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor?
A newly discovered process that makes oil drop like stones may inspire better cleanup strategies, experts say. In April 2010, as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history stained beaches and plastered birds with thick goo, something totally unexpected was happening under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (map). Out of the public eye, a mass of […]
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12/04/2018Oil Spill Kills More Than 2,400 Animals
An unclear amount of oil has leaked into Colombia’s waterways, and environmental activists are saying an oil company is to blame. At the beginning of March, an oil well in northern Colombia burst, spewing an unclear amount of oil into the Magdalena River, a principal waterway that flows about 950 miles northward through the western half of the […]
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09/04/2018Operational discharge of oil
Ships | Offshore drilling | Pipelines Discharges of oil from shipping, offshore extraction of oil, and transport of oil in pipelines is the result of either accidents or “normal”, deliberate operational discharges. Accidental discharges (oil spills)occur when vessels collide or come in distress at sea (engine breakdown, fire, explosion) and break open, or run aground close to the shore, or when […]
