August 4, 20169 yr Indonesian seaweed farmers on Wednesday sued Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production for potentially more than A$200 million ($152 million) to cover damages from Australia's worst oil spill in 2009. A total of about 30,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have spewed into the Timor Sea after a blowout from the Montara wellhead platform on August 21, 2009. It continued leaking until November 3 (74 days), when the leak was capped. Lawyers behind the case say it reached far as Nusa Tenggara Timur in Indonesia, more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) away. http://maritime-executive.com/article/pttep-faces-class-action-over-montara-spill
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