Montara oil spill

The production platform was a Montara oil rig east of Ashmore and Cartier Islands in the Timor Sea northwest of Australia, which was operated by the company PTTEP Australasia, a subsidiary of PTTEP. After a fire flowed from August 21, 2009 on a 10-week period about 4000 tons of crude oil into the sea, the oil spill reached an area of ​​25,000 square kilometers. On the oil slick sprayed chemicals formed with the oil a poison mixture so that the ecosystem will be affected there for a long time.