Spills · oil
Offshore galveston, tx
T/v Suhail Star; Offshore Galveston, Tx · NOAAORR-8163
- issued
- 2009-12-14 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2009-12-28 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2009-12-28 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 27.605, -94.038
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
T/V Suhail Star; Offshore Galveston, TX. Offshore Galveston, TX. 1. AT 1500 local time on 14 December, 2009, the USCG MSU Galveston notified the NOAA SSC of the T/V Suhail Star sheening in an offshore lightering area. The vessel still contains 500,000 bbls of Arabian Crude. The USCG has requested a worst case trajectory. 2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: ARABIC CRUDE. 3. POSITION 27.605N 094.038W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 8163: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/8163
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