ITOPF is one of the supporters of ICOPCE 2019, the biennial International Chemical and Oil Pollution Conference and Exhibition, organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
On 28th May 1991, ABT SUMMER, fully laden with a cargo of 260,000 tonnes of Iranian heavy crude oil, experienced an explosion and a fire about 900 miles off the coast of Angola.
CASTILLO DE BELLVER was carrying 252,000 tonnes of light crude oil (Murban and Upper Zakum), when it caught fire about 70 miles north-west of Cape Town, South Africa.