Police inspect the body of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador, after he was shot by unidentified men in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Bielousov said Ukraine “is not ready to forgive everything which happened in our territory.”Leicester reported from Paris and Dupuy reported from New York. Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Molly Quell in The Hague, Netherlands, and Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.
Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by The Associated Press, based, raises questions about the safety of these ships.Here’s what to know:
(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)
What can go wrong was illustrated off Nigeria in 2011, when a pipe connecting Shell’s production ship Bonga to a tanker sprang a leak. The spill wasn’t noticed for more than four hours, and 40,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Atlantic. An oil slick spread over 685 square miles (1,776 square kilometers) of water, an area twice the size of New York City. A $3.6 billion fine was the result, though it’s still being appealed today.
An internal review of Shell’s oil production ship fleet in 2022 shows that, 11 years after the Bonga spill, problems remained. The vessel had “continuously deficient” firefighting, lifesaving and oil transfer systems. Oil transfer systems were what failed in the 2011 spill.A police investigator checks on the unidentified body of an alleged drug lord in Manila, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
A police investigator checks on the unidentified body of an alleged drug lord in Manila, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)By then, Marcelo’s mother, Betty Soriano, had decided to start accompanying her son on his nightly tricycle shifts. The family believed he would be safer, and her presence would discourage him from spending time with the drug users he always ran across.
Marcelo then made his wife an extraordinary promise: He was quitting shabu. It had become too dangerous.Betchie felt he had to do more, and convinced him to work day shifts. But the competition was too tough, the money too little, and Marcelo reverted to working nights. He told Betchie she didn’t have to worry “because I’m not using drugs anymore.”