Timor Sea Oil Spill Aftermath
Hundreds of fishermen and seaweed farmers are seeking compensation for their losses from West Atlas oil rig leak.
Australia’s PTTEP Australasia keeps adding problems to the West Atlas oil rig’s adverse situation: after over two months of oil spill and four failed attempts to plug the leak, a massive fire erupted on the rig today.
It has been nearly 2 months since the West Atlas oil rig in the Timor Sea started leaking oil as reported in our earlier article. Now, a second attempt by PTTEP Australasia to plug the leak has failed.
The West Atlas drill rig began spewing 400 barrels of oil a day into the Timor Sea on August 21st and has occured right in the middle of a marine ‘superhighway’ for whales, turtles and seabirds and is close to unspoilt reefs and coral atolls.