New Managing Director for Bellona Norway
The Board of the Bellona Foundation has appointed former Minister of Climate and the Environment Sveinung Rotevatn as Managing Director of Bellona No...
News
Caspian oil well is pressurized
Publish date: May 24, 2006
Shortcuts on this page
News
Caspian oil well is pressurized
According to the Kazakhstan Emergency Situation Ministry, hermetization works on Pribrezhnoe oil well are finished.
The size of the oil spill, leaked out of this well, is 2.5 km on 10 metres. The well is pressured by temporary gap-closure, OilCapital reported. Oil spill from oil well #1 in the Caspian Sea was discovered in May, 14. The oil field was dumped more than 10 years ago, when the level of the Caspian Sea was increasing. There was no time for final conservation of the oil well. Nowadays the well stands for potential environmental risk.
More News
All news
Norway’s environmental prosecutor fines Equinor a record amount following Bellona complaint
Økokrim, Norway’s authority for investigating and prosecuting economic and environmental crime, has imposed a record fine on Equinor following a comp...
The system built to manage Russia’s nuclear legacy is crumbling, our new report shows
Our op-ed originally appeared in The Moscow Times. For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet ...
Coalition building survives; climate ambition does not at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil
The United Nation’s COP30 global climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil ended this weekend with a watered-down resolution that failed to halt deforest...