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ConocoPhillips Oil Spill in Bohai Bay – They Have Company

September 6, 2011/in Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John Amos

The Chinese government and fishermen are really hammering ConocoPhillips over their recent and apparently still unresolved pair of oil spills from two platforms at the Penglai 19-3 offshore field in Bohai Bay. We observed small oil slicks there on a radar image taken on June 11. Reports of continued leakage from one of the platforms, […]

Bohai Bay Oil Spills, China – Radar Satellite Image, June 11, 2011

July 28, 2011/in Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John Amos

We just got a satellite radar image of Bohai Bay taken June 11, 2011. It shows what appear to be oil slicks emanating from two platforms in the vicinity of the Penglai 19-3 offshore oil field operated by ConocoPhillips. This fits the story so far, that apparently unrelated spills with different causes occurred at two of […]