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RESOURCES Minister Martin Ferguson has announced the appointment of senior commonwealth public servant David Borthwick to lead an inquiry into a major oil spill off the Western Australian coast.
06/11/2009
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PTTEP Australasia has announced that the initial attempt to pump heavy mud into the leaking well, which has been spilling oil into the Timor Sea off Australia's northwest for more than a month, has failed.
07/10/2009
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PTTEP Australasia has announced drilling of a relief well to stop the flow of oil, gas and water from the Montara well has commenced.
28/09/2009
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DISCOLOURED water seen west of Darwin is not an oil slick resulting from PTTEP Australasia's West Atlas drilling rig, but rather a natural phenomenon.
07/09/2009
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PTTEP Australasia has rejected Woodside Resources’ offer to cap the oil leaking from the West Atlas Rig.
31/08/2009
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ATTEMPTS to clean up the crude oil spilled from the West Atlas Offshore drilling rig in the Timor Sea are currently underway.
24/08/2009