Browsing by Subject "dispersants"

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    • All set for oil recovery: Guimaras oil recovery operation second in history 

      Garcia, Erly C. (, March 12, 2007, on page )
      Recovery operations for the remaining oil inside the compartments of sunken tanker MT Solar 1 off the waters of Guimaras will already start as scheduled this Wednesday, March 14. Allied Shield, the recovery vessel of ...

    • Estancia oil spill cleanup procedure questioned 

      Sologastoa, Glenda; Nepomoceno, Jezza (, January 15, 2014, on page )
      The oil spill response program manager of the Univesity of the Philippine Visayas and consultant of Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. has expressed dissatisfaction over the cleanup in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia town. Dr. Resurrection ...

    • Extraction of Solar 1 oil set: Foreign group hired for job; 2 M liters of bunker fuel still in tanker 

      (, February 10, 2007, on page )
      After almost six months of waiting, Petron will soon start the extraction of remaining bunker fuel inside three cylinders of the vessel, Solar 1, which wrecked havoc on the environment when it split oil after it had sunk ...

    • Guimaras villagers brace for oil spill 

      Burgos, Nestor P. Jr. (, January 21, 2014, on page )
      Coastal villages on Guimaras Island are bracing for an oil spill after bunker fuel coming from a sunken cargo ship reached their shores on Monday. While a possible oil spill would be much smaller compared to the massive ...

    • Gulf Coast oil spill spreading out of control 

      Associated Press (AP) (, May 1, 2010, on page )
      An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread ...

    • International experts off Sri Lanka oil spill 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (, June 5, 2021, on page )
      Foreign experts have been deployed to help Sri Lanka contain a potential oil leak from a burnt-out container ship partially sunk off Colombo, the ship's operator said Friday. Representatives from the International Tankers ...

    • No more fish to catch, or spilt fuel to collect 

      Cinco, Maricar (, August 11, 2013, on page )
      Wearing the face masks given to them by health and social workers, Rodolfo Lasca, 49, and two neighbors arrived at the village basketball court yesterday to claim their emergency rice ration. Ever since a huge diesel oil ...

    • No significant amount of oil recovered 

      (, March 28, 2007, on page )
      No significant amount of oil has been found in the retrieval operations by Sonsub vessel Allied Shield from the sunken tanker Solar 1 off Guimaras Island. No oil was found in port tank No. 2 and starboard tank No. 2, the ...

    • Oil droplets from sunken ship reach 2 villages 

      Macairan, Evelyn (, January 23, 2014, on page )
      Apart from a two-kilometer oil sheen, droplets of bunker oil the size of a five-peso coin from the sunken cargo ship M/V Sportivo have reached the shorelines of at least two villages in Guimaras province, the Philippine ...

    • Oil extraction 

      Griño, Montesa (, February 20, 2007, on page )
      It's final. OnMarch 14, Petron Corp. will start extracting the remaining bunker fuel from MT Solar, almost seven months at the Iloilo- Guimaras Strait, causing an oil spill. Petron has tapped the Singapore-based Sonsub to ...

    • Oil spill spotted near N. Harbor 

      Cahinhinan, John Carlo M. (, October 9, 2010, on page )
      A small area of an oil spill was recently spotted by elements of the Philippine Coast Guard near the vicinity of Pier 12 inside North Harbor in Manila. Commodore Luis Tuason Jr., district commander of the PCG-National ...

    • Oil spill spreads on Manila Bay 

      Zurbano, Joel E.; Flores, Alena Mae S.; Cruz, Maricel V. (, August 10, 2013, on page )
      A diesel oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay Friday, posing potential health and environmental hazards, authorities said. A fuel tanker is suspected of having dumped half a million liters of diesel into ...

    • PCG orders salvage of sunken ship 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (, January 21, 2014, on page )
      The Philippine Coast Guard- Western Visayas (PCG-WV) has ordered the company of the cargo ship that sank between the waters of Iloilo and Guimaras on Sunday to refloat it. Coast Guard divers yesterday saw patches of soil ...

    • Scientists urge swift removal of oil from tanker 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr. (, September 17, 2006, on page )
      Scientists from all over the country urged authorities to remove as soon as possible the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar I that was carrying bunker fuel for Petron. Dr. Jurgenne Primavera, Pew Fellow and Seafdec ...

    • Spill alert: Oil sheen spotted in Iloilo-Guimaras Strait 

      Rendon, Jennifer P.; Yap, Tara (, January 21, 2014, on page )
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Western Visayas ordered the immediate refloating of a cargo vessel that sank in Iloilo Strait Sunday morning. This as Commodore Athelo Ybañez, PCG-Western Visayas commander, confirmed ...