Oil spills and accidents

Part of: Fossil fuels

An oil spill is a release of petroleum into the natural environment. The term oil spill often refers to marine oil spills, when petroleum is released into the sea from damaged tankers. Oil flows on the surface of the sea because it is lighter than water. Petroleum products are very toxic to marine life. Oil spilled in the water often reaches the shore, and severely damages ecosystems for animals and birds in coastal areas. A shoreline habitat may take up to 30 years to recover from a major oil spill. In general, the nature in the Arctic is more vulnerable to oil spills than more southerly ecosystems. Oil spills icy areas are a severe challenge to liquidators. Oil spills most often happen during the loading or transportation of oil

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Bellona Europa

[ 31.01.2012 ]
European offshore safety meeting: “It’s when we think we have everything under control that we are the most vulnerable”
BRUSSELS - "We need common minimum EU rules for offshore safety," said Frederic Hauge, president of The Bellona Foundation, on behalf of the environmental movement at the Commission’s stakeholder meeting on 31 January for the proposed regulation for offshore safety.
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Bellona

[ 28.01.2012 ]
Eight months after disastrous May spill, oil pollution still threatens White Sea coast in Russia’s north
An unscheduled inspection carried out late last year by the Russian federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, at the Belomorskaya oil bulk plant on the shore of the White Sea in Russia’s north revealed the enterprise had still not removed the cause of the ecological disaster it had been responsible for last May – an oil spill that severely polluted over 600,000 square meters of the shoreline and basin of Kandalaksha Bay.
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blogger51

[ 19.12.2011 ]
Russian drilling rig capsizes, sinks in the Sea of Okhotsk, likely killing over 50 on board
MURMANSK - The Russian jack-up rig Kolskaya capsized and sank within twenty minutes during a storm on Sunday while being towed from West Kamchatka – where it may have been used for drilling in defiance of environmental authorities’ objections – to Zyryanskaya Bay on the south-eastern shore of Sakhalin Island, in the Russian Far East. The search for survivors is ongoing, but only 14 out of the 67 on board have been rescued so far. The confirmed death toll now stands at 16 people.
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europost

[ 03.11.2011 ]
The European Commission proposes legislation on safety of offshore oil and gas activities
BRUSSELS – A new regulation for offshore oil and gas activities that would establish minimum environmental, health and safety requirements for all European Union Member States was proposed by the European Commission on October 27th.
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(Foto: European Space Agency)

[ 08.09.2011 ]
Gazprom’s dangerous Arctic experiment under way - sign the petition to stop it
On August 26, after an eight-day tow from Murmansk , the offshore ice-class drilling rig Prirazlomnaya arrived at its stationing site in the Pechora Sea in Russia’s Far North. Environmentalists believe the Russian gas giant Gazprom is not ready to ensure ecological safety during drilling, production, and transportation of oil from the Arctic shelf and are petitioning Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to stop what they fear will be an “oil Chernobyl.”
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Arktis

[ 01.09.2011 ]
First supertanker through the Northeast Passage spotlights severe environmental dangers
The Arctic has thus far been spared from being plowed through by soot-spewing supertankers directly, suffering only from soot transported from afar, but this is changing as climate change makes the transport of ever heavier oil- and gas-carrying vessels through the Arctic Northeast Passage possible.
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NEWS
[ 25.06.2008 ]
Lukoil spills 4 tons of crude in Northeast Russia

About four tons of oil has spilled from an underground pipeline in the Komi Republic in Russia’s far northeast, The Barent’s Observer reported.

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[ 05.03.2007 ]
Arkhangelsk Sea port threatened by oil wastes

According to regional representative of the Federal Service on Control of Natural Resources Exploitation (Rosprirodnadzor), the White Sea could be affected by the oil pollution.

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[ 30.01.2007 ]
Oil spill in Vologda region

Oil spill in Vologda region occurred on the 683rd kilometer of oil pipeline Ukhta-Yaroslavl on January, 19.

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