Oil tanker incident
Aframax River
6 September 2016
Houston Ship Channel, United States
What happened
The tanker Aframax River struck mooring dolphins while transiting the Houston Ship Channel, spilling marine gas oil that ignited. This was an accidental maritime casualty, not an attack; the NTSB investigated the allision and resulting spill and fire.
When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.
- Vessel / facility
- Aframax crude/products tanker
- Cargo
- Marine gas oil
- Attack
- Accidental allision with mooring dolphins; spill and fire (not an attack)
- Latitude
- 29.7500°
- Longitude
- -95.2200°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Approximate marker in the Houston Ship Channel.