Teams have been dispatched to determine the source of the leak and contain the incident, Al-Amer said, declining to give the spill's exact location. Kuwait's Al Rai newspaper released a video on Twitter showing a pipe spewing large amounts of oil onto barren land. AFP could not independently verify the...
UN raises $5m to prevent oil spill disaster in Red Sea
The United Nations is launching a crowd-funding campaign for an operation intended to prevent an aging Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, a senior official said Monday. "We hope to raise $5 million by the end of June," David Gressly, the UN's humanitarian...
UN says ‘imminent’ Yemen oil spill would cost $20 bn to clean up
The United Nations warned Monday that it would cost $20 billion to clean up an oil spill in the event of the "imminent" break-up of an oil tanker abandoned off Yemen. "Our recent visit to (the FSO Safer) with technical experts indicates that the vessel is imminently going to break...Tunisia works to contain diesel spill after cargo ship sinks
The tanker XELO, carrying 750 tons of diesel from Egypt to Malta, sank in the Gulf of Gabes off Tunisia’s southeast coast.UN seeks $80m to avert ‘imminent’ Yemen oil spill
Yemen's Huthi rebels already agreed a "framework for cooperation" with the United Nations on the issue last month.
Syrian oil spill moves away from northern Cyprus
Emergency workers tried to contain the spillage by roping it off with booms tossed from ships some 15 nautical miles off the shore
