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The oil spill occurred in the Guimaras Strait that connects the Visayan Sea with the Sulu Sea, and is considered a rich fishing ground that supplies most of the demand for the entire country. (NDCC, August 2006) Haribon sent two biologists to Guimaras to assess the damage and talk to the affected communities regarding their immediate needs ...
2013 Iloilo oil spill; 2024 Manila Bay oil spill; G. Guimaras oil spill; M. MT Princess Empress oil spill This page was ...
Bayou Perot oil spill United States, Bayou Perot near Lafitte, Louisiana: 20 January 2007: 338 [c] 1,128: ExPert Oil & Gas LLC [194] [195] Guimaras oil spill Philippines, Guimaras Strait: 11 August 2006: 172: 1,540 [196] Jiyeh power station oil spill Lebanon: 14 July 2006 – 15 July 2006 20,000: 30,000 [196] Citgo refinery United States, Lake ...
An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away ...
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A preliminary investigation into a mushrooming oil spill in waters near Trinidad and Tobago has found that an overturned and abandoned barge blamed for the disaster was being tugged to nearby Guyana.
The Guimaras oil spill, that occurred in Panay Gulf on August 11, 2006, has severely affected the fishing industry. During this spill, considered Philippines' worst, the oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sank during a violent storm, spilling some 500,000 litres (110,000 imp gal; 130,000 US gal) of oil which formed an oil slick that drifted through the strait. [4]
This is the site of the Guimaras oil spill in August 2006, when the oil tanker MT Solar 1 sank a few kilometers from Nueva Valencia. Nueva Valencia is a part of the Metro Iloilo–Guimaras area, centered on Iloilo City. It is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Jordan.