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Oil tanker World Encouragement oil spill – 1979 [5] Appin coal mine explosion resulting in the death of 14 miners – 1979. Oil tanker Esso Gippsland oil spill – 1982 [6] Moura coal mine roof fall and explosion – 1986 [7] Collinsville Coal Roof collapse in mine shaft – 1988 [8] Crude oil tanker Arthur Phillip oil spill – 1990 [9]
20 to 30 m 3 (710 to 1,060 cu ft) Area. 3 km (1.9 mi) The 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill occurred on 3 April 2010, when the Chinese bulk coal carrier, MV Shen Neng 1 ran aground east of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia. [1] The vessel is owned by Shenzhen Energy Transport Co. Ltd. [2] The ship was more than 10 km outside the ...
The Montara oil spill was an oil and gas leak and subsequent slick that took place in the Montara oil field in the Timor Sea, off the northern coast of Western Australia. It is considered one of Australia's worst oil disasters. [1] The slick was released following a blowout from the Montara wellhead platform on 21 August 2009, and continued ...
The Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre (AMOSC) is an organisation set up by the petroleum industry to enable a quick and effective response to oil spills around the Australian coastline. The organisation is owned by the Australian Institute of Petroleum and is financed by nine participating oil companies and other industry-related companies. [1]
2021 New Orleans oil spill United States, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana: 27 December 2021: 944.11: 944.11: PBF Energy [20] [21] 2021 Orange County oil spill United States, Orange County, California shoreline 1 October 2021: 424.42: 424.42: Amplify Energy [22] [23] 2021 Mediterranean oil spill / Emerald [b] Israel, Lebanon, Mediterranean ...
The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia on 11 March 2009, when 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers containing 620 tonnes of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish. It happened after unsecured cargo on ...
The Kirki was a 210-metre-long Greek -registered oil tanker which caught fire in the early morning of 21 July 1991, 30 km west of the fishing town of Cervantes, Western Australia, causing what at the time was the worst oil spill to have occurred in Australian waters. [2][3] The ship encountered severe weather and rough seas, which caused leaks ...
The largest spill to date was the Kirki tanker in 1991 which dropped 17,280 tonnes of oil off the coast of Western Australia. In March 2009, the 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred, where 200,000 litres were spilled from the MV Pacific Adventurer spilling more than 250 tonnes of oil, 30 tonnes of fuel and other toxic chemicals on ...