According to Rosprirodsupervisor (federal surveillance of natural resources), department inspectors and experts went to the scene of the accident and took dirt samples. The results of the analysis will be utilized to calculate the harm to be recovered by Transnieft-Prikamje.
The company itself informed that the reason for the leak was the drop in force on the Kałtasy-Kujbyshev oil section. Transnieft-Prikamje assured that rescue services were immediately sent to the scene, with a volume of spilled oil of 8.5 m six. Leaking does not pose a threat to the population and the environment and does not affect consumers, says the company.
In December, the Volgonieft-212 and Volgonieft-239, carrying a full of 9,2 000 tonnes of fuel oil, crashed in the Kerchen Strait. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, about 4,000 tons of fuel entered the Black Sea waters and polluted the coast of the Krasnodar region and the annexed Crimea.
