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Indian Navy and Coast Guard teams are working urgently to contain any possible oil leakage from the vessel, which was carrying 640 containers, including 13 with hazardous cargo and 12 containing calcium carbide.
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Biologist Eduardo Klein posted satellite images on X that he said showed an oil slick of about 225 square kilometers (87 square miles) in the Golfe Triste and completely covering Morrocoy National Park, known for beaches lined with palm trees and mangroves.
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The incident occurred while Jennifer Aniston was filming a protest scene for the show in New York City. In the photos, Aniston, dressed in a white shirt and beige pants, looks surprised and upset as the black liquid spoils her outfit.
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The Netherlands-flagged dredger Vox Maxima struck the Singaporean fuel supply ship Marine Honor on Friday. It damaged the cargo tank on Marine Honor, which leaked oil into the sea.
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Rishi Chandna's third short film, The Feast (Virundhu), part of an anthology, set near Pulicat Lake in Tamil Nadu, will premiere at world’s biggest short film festival and France’s second largest film festival after Cannes, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (February 2-10).
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As soon as the oil spill was reported, ONGC's Oil Spill Response (OSR) team was deployed to avoid the ingress of oil into the sea and cleaning of the shoreline commenced on war footing.
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3000-tonne unmanned oil tanker NU SHI Nalini, which was anchored off Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) harbour, drifted towards Raj Bhavan at Dona Paula beach near here on Thursday.
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Government today said it is keeping
a close vigil on the situation arising out of oil spill
following the recent collision between two ships at Kamarajar
port and is in talks with ship owners for payment claims.
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With the oil spill off the coast
here raising concerns, the Centre today said a total of 65
tonnes of sludge has been removed so far and over 90 per cent
of the work completed.
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More than 1,000 personnel, including those of Coast Guard and state Pollution Control Board, removed about 21 tonnes of oil with sludge and 17 tonnes of sand with slush and the sheen of oil noticed can be removed in a day or two, it said.
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The case dated back to 2011 when AMV Rak, a cargo vessel owned by Delta Shipping Marine Services sank off the coast of Mumbai, thereby causing oil spill.
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The Anglo-Dutch energy giant said in a statement that its Burger J well in the Chukchi Sea, off the northwest coast of Alaska, did not warrant further exploration, adding it would now stop its activities in Alaskan waters.
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An explosion at the deepwater horizon oil rig cost 11 lives and resulted in 4.2 million barrels of oil spewing into the gulf over 87 days. BP will pay the penalty over a span of 18 years.
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Monday's decision is a setback for BP's effort to limit payments over the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and rupture of BP's Macondo oil well.
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BP launched its promised appeal against what it called "fictitious" and "absurd" payouts to some oil spill compensation claimants on Friday and asked a judge to temporarily halt those paid out as business economic losses.
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The US government temporarily banned BP Plc from federal contracts on Wednesday over its "lack of business integrity" in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a move that the British company had said could force it to rethink its entire US operations.
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BP Plc will pay USD 4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which caused the worst US offshore oil-spill ever.
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Findings of the second major investigation by the US government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting over USD 30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches.
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The oil spill from cargo ship RAK Carrier, which sank Thursday afternoon near the coast of Mumbai, has slowed to 1 tonne per hour, Director General of Shipping said on Monday.
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Ruling out any cause of concern over the oil spill from a sunk cargo vessel off the Mumbai coast, Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan today asked the pollution authority to lift samples of the slick.
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BP reported yet another pipeline leak at its Alaskan oilfields, frustrating the oil giant's attempts to rebuild its reputation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Authorities will keep up pressure on BP Plc to ensure it fully compensates victims of last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Monday after the company indicated it wants to limit future claims.
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BP struck a key victory in its battle to share the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill when partner Mitsui & Co agreed on Friday to pay $1.1 billion towards the clean-up bill and possibly billions more in fines.
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BP Plc reported a 2% drop in first-quarter profit, falling short of analysts' forecasts as the lingering effects of the oil spill frustrated Chief Executive Bob Dudley's attempts to turn around the oil major.
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BP Plc reported a 2% drop in first-quarter profits, falling short of analysts' forecasts, as the lingering effects of the oil spill frustrated Chief Executive Bob Dudley's attempts to turn around the oil giant.
