West Atlas oil leak plugged
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The hugee oil rig inferno burning off Australia's coast cannot be ...Source: AFP
An oil well which has been spewing hundreds of thousands of litres of oil into the Timor Sea has been plugged...The company says it pumped nearly 3,500 barrels of mud into a relief well to plug the leak. A fire on the platform, which stifled attempts to cap the leak, has now been mostly extinguished.
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- News Source: The Jakarta Post | about 1 month agoLeburaya said Tuesday in the provincial capital Kupang that the local environmental agency had sent the government results of lab tests proving the leak, from an offshore oil rig in the Montara field, had polluted local waters. "The observation team...
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- Blog Source: www.democraticunderground.comAN oil well that has been leaking into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks has been plugged and a fire raging on the oil rig is almost out, the operator says. Australasia announced this afternoon that its fifth attempt to plug the leaking oil ... The oil
- Blog Source: www.abforum.orgAn oil well that has been leaking into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks has been plugged and a fire raging on the oil rig is almost out, the operator says. ... Timor Sea oil leak plugged ...
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- Blog Source: www.kimberleypage.com.auTimor Sea: Oil leak finally plugged. Operators started plugging the leaking West Atlas oil rig - just before it caught on fire. Operators had just started to fill the undersea pipe with heavy mud when the rig platform caught fire, ...
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