SYDNEY, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- An oil spill in the Timor Sea off Australia may take weeks to contain, and could be heading toward a whale breeding area, officials and environmentalists say. Engineers are making a fourth attempt to... [read full story]
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SYDNEY, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The operator of an oil rig in the Timor Sea announced Tuesday it plugged the leak that had been spewing oil for 10 weeks and brought under control a massive fire that had been burning since Sunday.
Timor Sea oil leak plugged, operator says Fire also out; offshore platform had been leaking 400 barrels a day Gilly Llewellyn, the World Wildlife Fund's conservation director in Australia, on Sept. 30 collects samples from a...
Timor Sea oil leak plugged, operator says Fire also out; offshore platform had been leaking 400 barrels a day Gilly Llewellyn, the World Wildlife Fund's conservation director in Australia, on Sept. 30 collects samples from a...
The partially collapsed Montara wellhead platform and the West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit smolders in the Timor Sea after a leak was stopped and fire extinguished yesterday. More in photo gallery AN oil rig that had...
An inequitable aftermath of the offshore oil drilling disaster in the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia: - The cleanup of the pollution from the oil spill will take 7 years to complete. - PTTEP Australasia, the oil...
The flow of oil leaking from a well in the Timor Sea northwest of Australia has been stopped after more than two months. Operators of the West Atlas drilling platform also say a fire on the rig has been extinguished....
Engineers tried to stop the leak for 10 weeks before succeeding An oil rig which has leaked thousands of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea over the last 10 weeks has been plugged, the rig's operators have said. A massive fire...
Sydney (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 - A blaze at an oil rig off Australia was brought under control on Tuesday when experts managed to plug a leak that has spewed tonnes of crude over the past 10 weeks, the well's operator said.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Monitoring the clean-up of a huge oil spill in pristine Australian waters could take as long as seven years, an official said Wednesday as environmentalists urged a wide-ranging inquiry into the disaster.
A fire-ravaged oil rig and platform in the Timor Sea remain highly dangerous despite the operators claiming it is stable, federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says. PTTEP Australasia announced on Tuesday afternoon that...
