Police to investigate Hua Sai oil spill

[rooster59]

Police to investigate Hua Sai oil spill

HUA SAI: The authorities filed a police complaint Saturday in response to the large amount of oil that has washed ashore since Friday in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Hua Sai district.

Maitree Saeng-ariyanan, the head of Marine and Coastal Resources Office 4, lodged the complaint at Hua Sai Police Station in bid to find the cause of the incident, so those responsible can be caught and punished.

Over the past two days oil and tar balls washed onto a long stretch of Hua Sai Beach in Tambon Koh Phetch and Tambon Na Saton.

Although the oil has been diluted by the seawater and waves carried much of it back out to sea, many tar balls and oil stains remained.

Military Circle 41 chief Maj-General Theenachat Jinda-ngern will coordinate the cleanup effort with local officials and the public, plus dispatch soldiers to help.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Police-to-investigate-Hua-Sai-oil-spill-30275282.html

-- The Nation 2015-12-20

[SOTIRIOS]

...Friday...so it happened a few days before that.....

...and why this 'guessing game'....

...don't all ships have 'tracking devices'......

...and didn't they invent satellites......many many years ago......

...what do the police have to do with nautical matters...

[taninthai]

Explains the green sea in the songkla area then.

[sendintheclowns]

We are getting oil covered debris, also small tar balls, on the nearest beach, between Sichon and Don Sak. It's a well know fact that the oil rigs wash out their drilling equipment in the sea water, which is less costly, rather than complying with international standards.

[farcanell]

We are getting oil covered debris, also small tar balls, on the nearest beach, between Sichon and Don Sak. It's a well know fact that the oil rigs wash out their drilling equipment in the sea water, which is less costly, rather than complying with international standards.

Most oil rigs, especially those that are owned by large companies, or are contracted to responsible clients, do not wash out there equipment into the ocean, the " sludge" is normally quarantined and backloaded to a shore based cleaning facility to be filtered of contaminants such that it can be reused, as the fluid may cost up to 2000 bucks a cubic meter

I have seen several men loose their jobs for deliberately causing a spill tnto the sea, over the last ten years, perhaps as part of re educating operators and staff about the seriousness of " no spills"

Also, the " oils" used, aren't the type that would cause tar balls, it would cause a brown sludge to wash ashore, if there was a "loss of containment"

Most companies of worth place their reputation right at the top of their priorities, ( no injuries, no spills), and this is literally taken extremely seriously, as a drilling company ignoring these " guidelines" will get passed over for other works

That said, if an operator is in an area were the local government doesn't care about the environment, and the drilling contractor is a bit dodgy, some drilling fluids may end up in the sea

It sounds to me more like a tanker transporting crude oil, has developed a leak, such as the Valdez, a few years back, or another type of boat could be the cause, but if it is a drilling rig, we will hear about it soon enough, because the rig is likely to be in extreme distress, which may also include multiple deaths and / or the loss of the facility

The " spill" in the golf of Mexico was as a result of an uncontrollable blow out... These do happen, more commonly in the Asian area, from what I understand.

[phuketsub]

Just armchair speculation, but let's not forget all the offshore oil smuggling that goes on. They would certainly be the most likely to create a spill, and the least likely to be able to contain it -- or report it. Oil spills like this are harder to detect by remote sensing techniques (eg spotted by passing aircraft) due to higher waves.

It if happens at night, the perpetrators are almost certain to slink away undetected.