Corfu, Greece: Hydrocarbon exploration west of Corfu; Ionian Sea; Oil and Gas Exploration

Signing ceremony for hydrocarbon exploration west of Corfu to take place on Tuesday, eKathimerini

"The signing ceremony of the contract granting rights to the consortium of France’s Total, Italy’s Edison and Greece’s ELPE to explore for, and exploit, hydrocarbons in plot 2 in the Ionian Sea in western Greece will take place on Tuesday at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in southern Athens.
Greece and the three companies have already signed a lease agreement to search for oil and gas in a sea area west of Corfu".

Greece Signs Lease for Oil and Gas Exploration in the Ionian Sea, Greek Reporter

It's not very long since the tanker Agia Zoni II sank off Salamína island, with an environmentally catastrophic oil-spill around Athens’ Argo-Saronic gulf...


A poem I wrote at Easter, 1967, after the wreck of an oil-tanker between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in March 1967. The oil reached the island of Guernsey a week later.

At The Time Of The Wreck Of The SS Torrey Canyon

the easter-bordered year

is closed

the door is

                 slammed

CONGRATULATIONS

                  are telegrammed

                  we won the race

                  we played the game

forget the oil-slicks moving in

let us take a moonlight swim




Torrey Canyon seabed returns to normal after oil spill, BBC, May 2011