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BEIJING (Reuters) – As many as 60,000 metric tons of heavy crude oil could have been spilled into China’s northeast coastal waters as a result of an explosion that rocked the port of Dalian on July 16, Greenpeace said on Friday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dalian Port has resumed operations of all its terminal and ground facilities, it said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after a fire and oil spill forced the closure of most of the port’s berths.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Nearly 8,000 workers and hundreds of fishing boats have managed to clean up the oil spill off the major northern Chinese port Dalian, nine days after a pipeline blast leaked 1,500 metric tons of heavy crude into the sea.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has recruited a flotilla of 500 fishing boats to help clean up an oil slick that shut one of its biggest ports, Dalian, disrupting refinery operations and diverting cargoes elsewhere, but officials said the port would not return to normal until the end of the week.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China closed the Dalian Xingang oil port in northeast China, home to the country’s largest oil reserve bases, after crude pipeline explosions spilled oil into the sea, an industry executive said on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s largest oil company, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), sought to contain ocean pollution and other impacts from an explosion of two crude oil pipelines in the northeastern port of Dalian, state media reported on Sunday.