Minerva Marine Denies Involvement in Israeli Oil Spill
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday February 25, 2021 Shipping company Israel s beaches to close. Israel s
Mediterranean beaches to the public this week after a suspected spill on
February 11 resulted in tar washing up on its coastline. The ministry is now looking into a selection of ships that it thinks could have caused the spill. Minerva Marine published a statement on its website on Tuesday denying the involvement of its ship the
Minerva Helen in the spill. The vessel was not involved in any operation nor in any other activity that could be connected to an oil discharge at sea, the company said.
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Energean fined for Karish drilling violation
The energy company insists it only dumped a very small amount of cement into the Mediterranean, which complied with regulations.
Israel s Ministry of Environmental Protection has fined Energean Oil & Gas plc (LSE: ENOG; TASE: ENOG) NIS 878,000 for violating the terms of its permit for gas flow from the sea via the drilling ship Stena Drill max, which drilled the Karish offshore gas field at the end of 2019. The Karish field is 90 kilometers west of Haifa Bay at a depth of 1.7 kilometers.
The drilling ship violated the instruction of the permit for gas flow from the sea and during its routine operations dumped cement into the sea.
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