Tag: oil spill

• Tuesday, March 18th 2025 - 19:01 UTC

  Nearly 500,000 people affected by oil spill in Ecuador

  

  Local communities in the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas were still protesting Tuesday after a major oil spill last week left some 500,000 residents with no access to drinking water, in addition to other environmental damages.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Trinidad and Tobago does not rule out foreign help to deal with oil spill

  

  Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago are not ruling out seeking international help to clean up the oil stain from a mysterious capsizing ship that is heavily affecting tourism and the environment along 15 kilometers of beaches there, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina: New oil spill recorded off Bahía Blanca

  

  Argentine authorities in the city port of Bahía Blanca in the province of Buenos Aires said a new oil spill had been reported after the one late last month. However, this time around the damage would have been controlled in less time, it was explained.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:10 UTC

  Peru: Repsol argues area affected by La Pampilla spill is fit for use

  

  The Spanish oil company Repsol said Monday that the Peruvian beaches affected by the 2022 La Pampilla spill were again fit for travelers.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 19:07 UTC

  Petroperu says latest oil spill stemmed from sabotaged pipeline

  

  Peru's state-run oil company Petroperu Sunday reported an attack against the Norperuvian Oil Pipeline (ONP) in the jungle region of Loreto had caused a spill triggering environmental contingency protocols.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Peruvian prosecutors to seek extradition of oil spill case tanker captain

  

  Peruvian authorities are seeking the extradition of the captain of the Italian-flagged Mare Doricum oil tanker, whom Repsol accuses of being responsible for the maneuvers that resulted in the oil spill at the La Pampilla refinery, 4 kilometers from the Ventanilla district.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Repsol now blames Italian tanker for oil slick off Peru's shore

  

  Spanish state-run oil company Repsol now blames a “sudden movement” of the Italian-flagged Mare Doricum tanker caused the Jan. 15 spill of thousands of barrels of crude oil off the coast of Lima, which has caused a major environmental disaster in the region.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 21:46 UTC

  Two people needed hospitalization due to oil spill off Peru's shore

  

  Two people have been hospitalized as a result of the effects of contaminated Pacific Ocean waters stemming from the Repsol oi spill off Callao, Peruvian authorities said Tuesday.

• Friday, February 4th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Ecuadorian authorities speak of “major disaster” following oil spill last week

  

  An oil spill in Ecuador in late January has been spreading over the past few days throughout the Yasuní area reaching unforeseen proportions, it was reported Wednesday.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Repsol spill in Peru twice the size reported originally, minister says

  

  Peru's Environment Minister Rubén Ramírez Friday denounced the amount of crude oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean was almost twice as much as the amount reported so far.