(dallasnews) U.S. Rep. Ted
Poe says a ship channel at Port Arthur closed since a collision between
a tanker and a towing vessel needs to be expanded.
Cleanup of the tanker oil spill continued Wednesday. 
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• ConocoPhillips unit to pay $ 588k for the year 2004 Tacoma oil spill

    A unit of ConocoPhillips Co. will pay $588,000 in a settlement with the state to help pay for the cleanup of a 2004 oil tanker spill in Puget Sound’s Dalco Passage near Tacoma. Polar Tankers Inc.

• Port Arthur SPILL

     A clearer picture emerged Tuesday of the collision that triggered the biggest Texas oil spill in 15 years, as cleanup efforts continued apace and officials planned to reopen the waterway by Thursday.  Source

• Texas Waterway fully reopened to shipping in a week

    The U.S. Coast Guard hopes to lift restrictions on ship traffic in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, through which oil is supplied to four east Texas refineries, within a week, a spokesman said. Tankers were moving to the four refineries in Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, while the cleanup of an oil

• Houston Ship Channel reopen after oil spill

    The Coast Guard says three miles of the Houston Ship Channel are reopened after a 10,500-gallon oil spill closed the section during the weekend. A secluded northern segment of the channel had been shut down after a 458-foot tank vessel tried to make a turn Friday night and hit a barge in

• Ship collision causes oil spill 462,000 gallons

    An estimated 462,000 gallons of oil were leaked from a tanker in waters near Port Arthur, Texas, on Saturday. Read at Ship collision causes 462,000 gallon oil spill

• Dubai Star has full insurance to cover liability

    The technical managers of Dubai Star, a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker that caused a major oil spill in the San Fransisco Bay area on Friday, said they have the insurance to cover any liability.

• Summary verdict against Mass. Law

     (marinelink)  The American Waterways Operators (AWO) hailed a decision by the U.S. District Court, Massachusetts District, to recommend summary judgment against a 2004 Massachusetts oil spill statute. The decision was issued on July 29 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Leo Sorokin.  A lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice challenged the constitutionality of the law,

• 10 million U.S. dollars fine for shipping company Cosco Busan oil spill by

    A Chinese shipping firm was fined $10 million on Friday, for its role in a 53,000 gallon spill of thick bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay, in 2007. Read at $10 million fine for shipping firm after Cosco Busan oil spill

• Owner pays $ 25 million for spill

    SWIRE Shipping has agreed to pay $25 million in compensation – $10.5 million more than its legal obligation – towards the cleanup costs for one of Australia’s worst environmental disasters. The company has finally come to an agreement with the Queensland and federal governments after the Pacific Adventurer cargo ship lost

• Dubai Star Faces U.S. $ 10m claim

    Owners of Dubai Star, the oil tanker that caused an oil spill in the San Francisco bay area, are facing a lawsuit for $10 million (Dh36.7m) by US fishermen and the owner of a local food processing company. The suit filed by crab fisherman Mark Russo, herring fisherman Ron Alioti,

• UAE naphtha tanker collisions in from Malaysia

    A tanker carrying some 58,000 tonnes of naphtha was involved in a collision with a cargo ship late on Tuesday in the Strait of Malacca, leaving nine crewmen from the oil vessel missing, a Malaysian maritime official said.  Oil traders said on Wednesday the tanker carrying the naphtha cargo from

• Coast Guard hearing begins on Texas oil Betting

     (AP) An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence

• Tanker with 230,000 liters of fuel hits reef

    Local authorities are still struggling to tow to safety a tanker that hit a shallow barrier reef, off Southern Leyte, early Saturday after its engine conked out in rough seas. MT Shirly Ann, which was carrying 230,000 liters of diesel fuel, was stranded in shallow waters at about 12:30 a.m. at

• Ship operator pleads guilty in SF Bay oil spill

    The Hong Kong-based company that operates the cargo ship that caused a 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges. Fleet Management Ltd. pleaded guilty to charges of obstruction, making false statements and negligent discharge of oil, and agreed to pay a $10 million fine under

• SOS Paradip port to international agencies

    Paradip port has sought the help of international agencies to attend the sunken Mongolian ship Black Rose’ as it continued to spill oil threatening the coast. “Small quantities of oil have started oozing out from September 21 onwards probably from the settling and service tank of engine room and reaching the shore”,