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Diesel Spill in Manila Bay - Philippines

Monday, August 12, 2013 10:37

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Last Thursday an oil slick spread across a large area in Manila Bay near the town of Rosario in The Philippines. It turned out to be diesel fuel that leaked from an underwater pipeline while it was being transferred from a tanker to an onshore storage terminal. We haven’t got any satellite imagery of this spill — it’s been cloudy every day — but this aerial video shows some of the damage. The total size of the spill is in dispute. The local governor claims it was about 24,000 gallons, but the Coast Guard says it may be as much as 132,000 gallons. Fishermen in the Bay are worried about the possible impact on their livelihood.

We think we’ve located the offshore loading buoy (click here to see what those look like)and pipeline where the spill occurred. You can explore it yourself using the satellite imagery in Google Maps. Here are a couple of screen-captures we made of the site using Google Earth.

General vicinity of the diesel spill in Manila Bay near town of Rosario. Imagery taken in December 2012 (before the spill; dark patch at center is a cloud shadow — the cloud is off the frame, to the south).

Detail from above. We’ve annotated what we think is the route of the underwater pipeline that leaked, and the location of the loading buoy.

We’ve seen two similar spills that have occurred during the transfer of oil at offshore loading terminals over the past couple of years. One in Brazil oiled the beach at Tramandai early in January 2012. And a spill of over 1 million gallons happened in December 2011 off the coast of Nigeria at a facility operated by Shell, creating a 45-mile-long oil slick that we observed on a radar satellite image.

Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2013/08/diesel-spill-in-manila-bay-philippines.html

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