Major/minor Oil Spills in Indian Waters

Name

Year

Place

Cause

Oil spilt (jn tonnes)

Tanker Transhuron

1974

Laccadives

Grounding

36,000

Oil rig Sagar Vikas

1982

Bombay High region

Blow out

5,000

Tanker Maersk Navigator

Jan,1993

Andaman Sea

Collision

25,000

Bombay High

May,1994

Bombay High region

Leakage in feeder pipe line

1,600

Iron ore carrier MV Sea Transporter

June,1994

off Goa

Grounding

2

Iron ore carrier : Maritime Wisdom

March, 2005

off Goa

Collision

110


by Dr Poi Fondekar, Scientist (National Institute of Oceanography, India)