{"id":371969,"date":"2020-09-05T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T03:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371969"},"modified":"2020-09-05T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T03:47:57","slug":"sri-lanka-navy-says-no-real-risk-of-oil-spill-on-stricken-supertanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-navy-says-no-real-risk-of-oil-spill-on-stricken-supertanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka navy says no real risk of oil spill on stricken supertanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (Reuters) &#8211; There is no real risk of a spill from a fully loaded supertanker that caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka, a senior official in the Indian Ocean nation&#8217;s navy said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The fire that broke out in the engine room of the New Diamond on Thursday morning had spread to the bridge of the ship, carrying about 2 million barrels of oil, though it has not reached the cargo area, the Sri Lankan navy said. <\/p>\n<p>Director-General of Operations Rear-Admiral Y N Jayarathna told reporters it was the navy&#8217;s view that there was no real danger of a spill, because the fire on the ship has been contained in the rear section of the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (Reuters) &#8211; There is no real risk of a spill from a fully loaded supertanker that caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka, a senior official in the Indian Ocean nation&#8217;s navy said on Friday. The fire that broke out in the engine room of the New Diamond on Thursday morning had spread to the bridge of the ship, carrying about 2 million barrels of oil, though it has not reached the cargo area, the Sri Lankan navy said. Director-General of Operations Rear-Admiral Y N Jayarathna told reporters it was the navy&#8217;s view that there was no [&hellip;]<\/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-371969","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\/371969","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=371969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}