(Photo: PCG) Nearing the two-week deadline imposed to collect the remainder of 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil (IFO) onboard sunken tanker MTKR Terranova, the process hit a snag after authorities decided to stop the siphoning, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) bared on Saturday, Aug. 31....
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel BRP Sindangan fires water to disperse the oil sheen that occurred at the ground zero where MTKR Terranova sank off Limay, Bataan amid the siphoning operations on Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo: PCG) A total of 300,000 liters of oily waste have been collected from sunken...
Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Sindangan fires water to disperse the oil sheen that occurred at the ground zero where MTKR Terranova sank off Limay, Bataan amid the siphoning operations on Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo: PCG) One of the booster pumps used to drain oil from the sunken tanker MTKR...
Authorities perform oil sampling procedure onboard barge "Auriga" on Aug. 20, 2024 at the ground zero where MTKR Terranova sank off the coast of Limay in Bataan ahead of the full-blown siphoning procedure. (Photo: PCG) More than 161,000 liters of industrial fuel oil (IFO) mixed with seawater have...
Authorities perform oil sampling procedure onboard barge "Auriga" on Aug. 20, 2024 at the ground zero where MTKR Terranova sank off the coast of Limay in Bataan ahead of the full-blown siphoning procedure. This is where the extracted oil and seawater during the initial siphoning are transferred....
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel conduct oil sampling, sea surface surveillance and monitoring at the ground zero where MTKR Terranova sank off Limay, Bataan after the discovery of thick oil on Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo: PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rang its alarm bells when it...
Lt. Cdr. Michael John Encina, commander of Coast Guard Station Bataan, says an oil pumping machine will arrive from Singapore on Aug. 16, 2024 to hasten the oil recovery operations for sunken tanker MTKR Terranova. (Courtesy of PCG/Zoom) An oil pumping machine from Singapore was scheduled to arrive...
SM Foundation, in partnership with employee volunteers from SM City Bataan, distributed 300 Kalinga packs on Friday, August 9, to families affected by an oil spill in Barangay Lamao, Limay, Bataan. A RESIDENT affected by the oil spill in Limay, Bataan receives a Kalinga pack from a volunteer in SM...
A deep sea diver successfully installs a flange valve plate onto the surface of a tank onboard sunken tanker MTKR Terranova as part of initial siphoning operations on Aug. 11, 2024. (Photo: Harbor Star Shipping Services, Inc. via PCG) The full-blown siphoning operation to drain 1.4 million liters...
Motor tanker MTKR “Jason Bradley” floats partially off the coast of Mariveles, Bataan on Aug. 12, 2024 while the siphoning of seawater from the vessel continues. (Photo: Philippine Coast Guard) Motor tanker MTKR “Jason Bradley”, which sank off the coast of Mariveles, Bataan last July 27...
Philippine Coast Guard and arbor Star Shipping Services Inc. personnel conduct a simulation of the siphoning and salvage operations for MTKR Terranova at Lamao Port in Limay, Bataan on Aug. 7, 2024. (Photo: PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) conducted a mock operation of the siphoning of the 1.4...
Motor tanker MTKR Terranova (Photo courtesy of PCG) The shipping company of MTKR Terranova on Tuesday, Aug. 6, dismissed allegations linking them into oil smuggling as the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said it has launched an investigation to verify reports that the sunken tanker, as well as two...
