Oil Spillage

PIL challenges bar in Places of Worship Act 1991 on religious character

On February 17, the apex court expressed displeasure over filing of several pleas on the 1991 Act and said a three-judge bench would in April hear the pending post-notice petitions related to the law

Mumbai-Pune Expressway oil spill disrupts Maharashtra capital-bound traffic

Mumbai-bound traffic on the Mumbai-Pune expressway was disrupted on Saturday morning after an oil tanker overturned in one of the lanes causing spilling of oil

Peru bans Repsol executives from leaving country after oil spill

Peru banned Repsol's Peru director and three other executives from leaving the country for 18 months while the government investigates an oil spill at a refinery run by the Spain-based company

Unusual high waves from volcano eruption in Tonga cause oil spill in Peru

Unusually high waves attributed to the eruption of an undersea volcano in Tonga caused an oil spill on the Peruvian coast, but authorities said Monday the spill was controlled within hours

Cargo ship splits in two pieces after running aground in Japan port

A cargo ship broke into two pieces after running aground in a northern Japanese port and is spilling oil into the sea, Japan's coast guard said Thursday

Indo-French satellites to trace illegal oil spillage: French space agency

The monitoring centre will be based in India

Salvage team looks for rescue port for oil transfer from wrecked IOC vessel

The vessel is now in Sri Lankan water at about 70 nautical miles from the coast

Venezuela's PDVSA confirms oil leak into sea near refinery complex

PDVSA discovered the spill in the Golfete de Coro area in Falcon state during an aerial inspection, a statement from the company said

Carrier that ran aground, spilled oil off Mauritian coast breaks up

The bigger part which was lying outside the lagoon is being towed toward the high seas," the shipping ministry spokesman Jasvin Sok Appadu said over the phone

India sends tech equipment, material to Mauritius for containing oil spill

Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius in late July and leaked hundreds of tonnes of oil in the environmentally sensitive region days later.

Almost all oil removed from damaged Japanese ship, says Mauritius' PM

"At the time I'm talking to you, almost all the oil has been removed from the ship," Pravind Jugnauth told reporters, according to remarks shared by his office

In pictures: Mauritius oil spill in Indian Ocean

Urgent efforts increased in Mauritius on Monday to empty a stranded Japanese ship of an estimated 2,500 tons of oil before the vessel breaks up

Grounded Mauritius ship operator apologises for oil leak in Indian Ocean

The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil spill

Plan ready to douse Assam well fire, inquiry panel formed: Oil India

Engineers accompanied by experts from Singapore firm and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) further intensified their efforts to tame the blaze

Assam gas well fire: 7,000 moved to relief camps; 2 firefighters dead

The blaze at the well is so massive that plumes of black smoke can be seen from a distance of more than 30 kilometers

Oil price slips below $66 barrel ahead of G20 summit, OPEC meeting

Brent crude, the global benchmark, was down 56 cents at $65.93 by 1215 GMT

This start-up uses a wonder material called graphene to clean up oil spills

Graphene-based products are four times as effective than conventional polypropylene, and much safer to use