Exxon unit investigates oil spill near Nigeria facility

Posted on 15 August 2012
ExxonMobil's Nigeria unit said it was investigating an oil spill near its facility off the country's southeast coast, which local fishermen said had covered the waters where they fish with a toxic film. Mobil Producing Nigeria, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and the state oil f...
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Great Barrier Reef oil spill 'would cost billions': minister

Posted on 9 August 2012
An oil spill on Australia's Great Barrier Reef would cost billions of dollars — both to clean and to deal with an anti-shipping backlash, the federal government says. Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says the impact of an oil spill on the Great Barrier Reef would run to "...
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Hong Kong govt criticised over plastic spill on beaches

Posted on 4 August 2012
Hundreds of millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets from shipping containers knocked off a vessel during Hong Kong's worst typhoon in 13 years have washed up on its beaches where they lay for more than a week, activists say. The Hong Kong government estimated that 150 tonnes of t...
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Enbridge races to clean up Wisconsin oil spill, restart line

Posted on 30 July 2012
Canada's Enbridge Inc. on Sunday raced to repair a major pipeline that spilled more than 1,000 barrels of oil in a Wisconsin field, provoking fresh ire from Washington over the latest in a series of leaks. The spill on Friday -- almost two years to the day after a ruptured Enbridge lin...
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Taiwan's Formosa Petrochem shuts refinery unit on leak

Posted on 27 July 2012
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has shut one of two residue desulphurizer (RDS) units at its 540,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao due to a leak, and it may restart in about a week's time, a company spokesman said on Friday. Its other RDS unit is running at full cap...
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