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(CNN Spanish) – The state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) reported on Tuesday an oil spill close to Campeche, within the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement, it excluded that the incident broke within the Ek Balam fields with two leak factors within the pipeline that they described as “small fissures 7 cm lengthy by 1 mm huge and a 1.2 cm diameter pore.” They added that, because of the narrowness of the cracks, the amount of hydrocarbons that leaked “was minimal.”
On this means, the corporate denied the model of non-governmental organizations that, in line with a Greenpeace assertion, warned of an enormous spill in the identical space the place the hearth broke out on the Nohoch-A offshore platform on July 7, which left two useless.
Pemex denied that this leak is expounded to these occasions and stated that a lot of the spilled quantity “was instantly recovered and the iridescence dispersed.” The corporate referred to pictures that circulated in some media exhibiting the realm of the 400 km2 oil slick, describing it as an estimate of “unhealthy religion” since, in that case, “multiple and a half million barrels of oil must be spilled.”
Pemex specialists report that the amount was 58 m3 (365 barrels of oil), which affected an estimated space of 0.06 km2 “the place the thickness of the oil movie is estimated at one millimeter.” Pemex stated the incident was reported to the Company for Security, Power and Setting (ASEA) on July 6.
In an announcement, that establishment ratified the knowledge and added that supervision actions have been carried out relating to the spill containment and cleanup actions carried out by Pemex, in addition to the accreditation of the pipeline restore. The ASEA stated that it’ll set up precautionary measures for the alternative of the services “with the intention of stopping this kind of occasion sooner or later.”
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