{"id":372189,"date":"2020-09-07T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372189"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:34:07","slug":"fire-on-supertanker-off-sri-lankan-coast-extinguished-navy-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fire-on-supertanker-off-sri-lankan-coast-extinguished-navy-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on supertanker off Sri Lankan coast extinguished: Navy spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (Reuters) &#8211; A fire on a supertanker abandoned off Sri Lanka&#8217;s east coast has been extinguished, a Sri Lankan navy spokesman said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire on the oil tanker has been doused. However we are continuing to spray water in case it reignites,&#8221; Captain Indika De Silva told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The New Diamond is carrying about 2 million barrels of crude oil, although a senior Sri Lankan navy official said on Friday there was no real risk of a spill. <\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out in the engine room on Thursday morning and spread to the bridge of the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (Reuters) &#8211; A fire on a supertanker abandoned off Sri Lanka&#8217;s east coast has been extinguished, a Sri Lankan navy spokesman said on Sunday. &#8220;The fire on the oil tanker has been doused. However we are continuing to spray water in case it reignites,&#8221; Captain Indika De Silva told Reuters. The New Diamond is carrying about 2 million barrels of crude oil, although a senior Sri Lankan navy official said on Friday there was no real risk of a spill. The fire broke out in the engine room on Thursday morning and spread to the bridge of the ship.<\/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-372189","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\/372189","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=372189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}