{"id":464118,"date":"2022-01-27T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=464118"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:28:13","slug":"offshore-oil-spill-threatens-beaches-in-eastern-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/offshore-oil-spill-threatens-beaches-in-eastern-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore oil spill threatens beaches in eastern Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s navy was helping Wednesday to clean up a spill of as much as 128 tons (160,000 liters) of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand. <\/p>\n<p>The spill is near an industrial area but some of the oil could hit area beaches by Friday if it&#8217;s not dispersed before then, said Attapol Charoenchansa, director-general of the Pollution Control Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Star Petroleum Refining Public Company said the leak occurred at about 9 pm. local time Tuesday at a mooring station about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, south of Bangkok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s navy was helping Wednesday to clean up a spill of as much as 128 tons (160,000 liters) of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand. The spill is near an industrial area but some of the oil could hit area beaches by Friday if it&#8217;s not dispersed before then, said Attapol Charoenchansa, director-general of the Pollution Control Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The Star Petroleum Refining Public Company said the leak occurred at about 9 pm. local time Tuesday at a mooring station about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464118","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=464118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}