Guidance for the Environmental Public Health Management of Crude Oil Incidents
Annexes
Annex J2: Major international crude oil spills involving pipeline/storage tank/onshore wells Date 2013 21 Nov
Location Qingdao, China
Company Sinopec
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2010 20 Dec
2010 17 Jul
2008 16 Mar
2008 16 May 2007 Jan
2006 26 Dec
Consequences
pipeline ruptured; leaked for about 15 min onto a street and into the sea before being shut off; hours later, as workers cleaned up the spill, the oil caught fire and exploded in two locations direct cause of the explosion: vapours from oil leaking from an underground pipeline ignited by sparks from a hydraulic hammer
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62 dead; 136 injured 18,000 residents evacuated oil spread across 3,000 square metres in Jiaozhou Bay and Yellow Sea losses of more than $122.7 million [AFP, 2014; Reuters, 2013, Zhu, 2015]
San Martin Texmelucan
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
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blasts at pumping station caused by illegal taping into high-pressure pipe
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at least 28 people killed; at least 52 people injured; 5,000 people evacuated; 32 houses destroyed; 83 houses damaged [Seattle Times, 2010]
port of Dalian, China
China National petroleum, Corp
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explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port cause: improper injections of strongly oxidizing desulfurizer into the oil pipeline
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fatalities 1,500 thousand tons of oil released into the Yellow Sea, spread over 430 km2 of sea and coast line; economic and ecological damage [CBSNews, 2010; Watts, 2010]
pipe leak caused a spill of an estimated 400 tonnes of heavy fuel oil (IFO 380) during the loading of a vessel
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temporary ban on fishing; shoreline pasturage damaged fine: €300,000 [Cedre, 2014]
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bulldozer struck and ignited pipeline
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more than 100 killed [Connors, 2008]
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crude oil storage tank at oil storage depot gave way; 13,500 m3 of Aquitaine crude oil, released, creating a wave effect causing some 2,000 m3 of oil to spill over the top of the retention tank; nearly 2 km of marshland trenches and channels contaminated; water table reached; 50 m3 reached Garonne River
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over 10 km of river bank polluted €30,000 fine for SPBA; a €5,000 fine for the company's former Managing Director [Cedre, 2014]
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thieves rupture pipeline
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at least 260 killed; 60 injured; number of houses, a mosque and a church destroyed [BBC, 2006a]
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DongesRefinery, LoireAtlantique, France
Total Raffinage Marketing
Ijegun, Nigeria Ambès (Gironde, France)
Abule Egba, Nigeria
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Vermilion Emeraude Rep; operated by the Société Pétrolière du Bec d’Ambès (SPBA)
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