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About 23 tonnes of diesel oil leaked from the Police Coast Guard Brani Regional Base in southern Singapore into surrounding waters on Feb 5.
Clean-up efforts in the wake of an oil leak in the waters off Bukom Island have been completed, the authorities said.
Shell has shut down one of its oil processing units at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park on Singapore’s Pulau Bukom to facilitate an investigation into a suspected leak in the system.
The marine environment might recover after each oil spill incident, but too many of such events would compromise its ability to do so, said marine scientists.
The clean-up of the waters, rocks and structures on and between Pulau Bukom and Bukom Kechil is expected to be completed in days, with no new oil sightings as at 3pm on Oct 22.
A land-based pipeline leak has led to about 30-40 metric tons of "slop” - a mixture of oil and water - being spilled into the sea off Singapore, Shell Plc said in a statement today.
An oil pipeline belonging to British giant Shell began leaking into the sea on Sunday, Singaporean authorities said, adding that the spill was stopped and cleanup crews deployed.
SINGAPORE: People should avoid swimming and other primary contact water activities near the beaches of East Coast Park, Kusu Island, St John’s Island and Lazarus Island, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said in an advisory on Monday (Oct 21).
SWIFT actions were taken after oil traces and odour pollution were detected at Sungai Gong on Sunday (Oct 7).
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (March 20, 2025)
HOUSTON, Oct.11 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and 35 others injured following a chemical leak of hydrogen sulfide on Thursday at an oil refinery in Pemex Deer Park, about 18 miles east of Houston, Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Friday.
MANILA: Divers have noticed "minimal" oil leaks from a Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel that sank in Manila Bay on Thursday, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Saturday (July 27).
A sunken tanker off Manila was leaking "minimal" oil, the Philippine Coast Guard said Monday, as a salvage company prepared to offload the vessel's 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel cargo.
A sunken tanker off Manila was leaking “minimal” oil, the Philippine Coast Guard said, as a salvage company prepared to offload the vessel’s 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel cargo.
Some of the 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel inside a sunken Philippine tanker has started to leak into Manila Bay, the coastguard said, as they raced to avoid an environmental catastrophe.
Specialist divers are sealing nine leaking valves of an oil tanker that sank in the Philippines to prevent more of its cargo from spilling into Manila Bay, the coastguard has announced.
(Reuters) - Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Wednesday declared a region-wide emergency, saying that oil was still washing up on the coastline 10 days after two ageing tankers ran into trouble.
ALOR SETAR: The use of batch numbers on each cooking oil packet is one of the mechanisms being considered by the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry to track the distribution chain of subsidised cooking oil.
ADEN, Yemen, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Yemeni government announced Monday that it is scrambling to avert an environmental disaster in the Red Sea after the Houthi group attacked a cargo ship last week and caused it to take on water and leak oil.
