Spills · oil
Trinidad and tobago
Lower Caribbean Oil Spill; Trinidad and Tobago · NOAAORR-9502
- issued
- 2017-05-31 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2017-06-14 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2017-06-14 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 10.692, -61.222
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Lower Caribbean Oil Spill; Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago. 1. On May 30, 2017, NOAA was contacted by RAC/REMPEITC - Caribe (The Regional Activity Center for the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean) and the Curacao meteorological office regarding oil beaching at various locations on Venezuela, Aruba, Bonair, and Curacao. The heavy weathered patchy product is suspected to have originated from a tank release that occurred in Trinidad on 23 April. NOAA advised that sample collection and fingerprinting would be helpful to positively identify the oil source. NOAA is standing by to assist further if additional information becomes available that could help determine future movement of the oil 2. THREAT: OIL. 3. POSITION 10.692N 061.222W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 9502: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/9502
This area · spills & pollution incidents
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- Oil spill response operations in progress until further notice vicinity 10-10.30N 061-51.13W2016-02-12
- On march 6, 1991, the motor barge vesta bella, containing 560,000 gallons of #6 fuel oil, sank about 30…1991-03-06
- Trinimar marine well 327; gulf of paria, venezuela1973-08-08
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- Trinidad and tobagoCable ops · 58.8 nm
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