The phrase "a spill was reported" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as incident reports, news articles, or safety communications to indicate that an incident involving a spill has been communicated.
Example: "During the meeting, it was noted that a spill was reported in the laboratory, prompting an immediate investigation."
Alternatives: "a spill has been noted" or "a spill was documented".
On December 2013, an 180,000-litre accidental acute diesel spill was reported in a small harbour of northern Norway (Skjervøy).
The oil spill was reported around noon Tuesday by a woman at Refugio State Beach who smelled the fumes, and U.S. Coast Guard crews stopped the leak by 3 p.m.
Luckily, this time, no spill was reported into the GOM, partly because Abkatun Alpha was a processing platform that separates oil, gas and water, after receiving the production from other platforms.
The spill was reported Saturday by The Daily Gazette of Schenectady.
Sheehan said crews were still working Thursday to plug the leak, four days after the spill was reported.
Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull and other politicians whose names were bandied about in last month's attempted leadership spill are reported to be using a secure messaging app called Wickr.
Make sure that the spill is reported in accordance with local and state laws.
The last of the 16 spills was reported Monday; about 200 gallons of drilling slurry leaked into the Conotton Creek, affecting about half a mile of the waterway about 50 miles south of Akron.
The members of Congress were echoing comments by President Obama last week, when he criticized BP for spending $50 million on TV advertising while people whose livelihoods were wrecked by oil spill were reporting difficulties in getting their claims paid.
NEW ORLEANS — President Obama visited the Gulf Coast on Friday and chastised BP for paying billions of dollars in dividends to shareholders and on advertising to save its image while some people whose livelihoods were wrecked by the company's oil spill were reporting difficulties in getting their claims paid.
