{"id":371712,"date":"2020-09-04T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371712"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:42:45","slug":"tanker-loaded-with-2-million-barrels-of-oil-catches-fire-off-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tanker-loaded-with-2-million-barrels-of-oil-catches-fire-off-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker loaded with 2 million barrels of oil catches fire off Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker loaded with two million barrels of Kuwati crude sailing toward Odisha&#8217;s Paradip refinery caught fire Thursday morning off Sri Lanka\u2019s coast, raising concerns about an oil spill. <\/p>\n<p>The fire in the engine room of New Diamond, a very large crude carrier, was caused by an explosion, said Sri Lanka Navy spokesman Indika de Silva. \u201cFire is still in the engine room and hasn\u2019t spread out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Navy deployed two vessels for rescue operation, Indian Coast Guard diverted three ships and an aircraft, while clean tanker Helen M has also been pressed into assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker loaded with two million barrels of Kuwati crude sailing toward Odisha&#8217;s Paradip refinery caught fire Thursday morning off Sri Lanka\u2019s coast, raising concerns about an oil spill. The fire in the engine room of New Diamond, a very large crude carrier, was caused by an explosion, said Sri Lanka Navy spokesman Indika de Silva. \u201cFire is still in the engine room and hasn\u2019t spread out.\u201d Sri Lanka Navy deployed two vessels for rescue operation, Indian Coast Guard diverted three ships and an aircraft, while clean tanker Helen M has also been pressed into assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}