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An 800-foot tanker collided with a towing vessel and released thousands of gallons of crude oil into a waterway at Port Arthur in Texas in the USA.
AP reported that the collision left a 15-by-8-foot hole in the tanker and damaged one of its tanks resulting in the spill. No-one was harmed in the accident.
The spill has been contained to a 2 mile radius along the Sabine Neches Waterway and no wildlife is believed to have been effected. A clean-up operation is now underway.
11,000 barrels – 450,000 gallons – of oil are still unaccounted for but officials in charge of the clean up operation believe that only 1000 barrels – 42,000 gallons – actually spilled into the water.
Port Arthur is 90 miles east of Houston.
