On Sakhalin, the oil spill occurred in the field “daughter” of “Rosneft” – RBC

Near Ehab village in the north of Sakhalin there was an oil spill from a pipeline at the field “Eastern Ehab.” About spill said the agency “Interfax-Far East,” referring to the head of the regional public organization “Sakhalin Environment Watch” Dmitry Lisitsyn.

The pipeline serves subsidiary of “Rosneft” company “Sakhalinmorneftegaz”. According to the environmentalist, local residents discovered the spill after Thursday morning saw the black smoke in the oilfield area.

«According to our informants, from an oil pipeline spilled more than 300 tonnes. Oil, they say, has already got into the river and the bay Urkt. Now rescue teams determine the extent of the Gulf of crude oil, “- said Lisitsyn

According to local people, employees of the company” Sakhalinmorneftegaz “likely themselves set fire to the leaked oil so it does not hit the river. . Lisitsyn noted that now the fire is still ongoing, but the intensity of the smoke down.

In the press service of the agency confirmed the oil leak. However, they assured that now are working on the clean-up, and the threat of oil getting into the water is not.

In April of last year in the territory of the same oil field oil spill also occurred. Then, locate an oil spill could not be in a month – Oil continued to flow into the Gulf of Ehab

In June, a major oil spill occurred in the suburbs of Nefteyugansk.. Then spill area exceeds 10 hectares. After the accident, Rosprirodnadzor filed a case against the company in respect of “RN-Yuganskneftegaz”, which serves the pipeline.