PTT ... and at least 300 navy soldiers are cleaning up the damagecaused by an oil slickthat has pollutedAo Phrao beach on Samet island.
...on Monday (29 July 2013) the oil entered the bayand washed up on the beach at Ao Phrao, on the western part of the island, on Sunday night.
The oil slickhas affected the entirebeach of the small bay PTT personnel.. and navy ... deployed to the area on Sunday were cleaning it up. It was hoped the clean-upwould be complete later on Monday...
Clean-up crews were also working to further containthe main slickand prevent it moving to Phae beach on the mainlandof Rayong's Phae district, as the wind is moving it in that direction...
... the oil slickthat washed up on the island is about one-tenth of the 50,000 litres of oil that leaked into the sea on Saturday off the eastern coast at the Map Ta Phut industrial estatein the province.
Oil spill clean-upat Ao Phrao beach at Koh Samet.
A Samet park official said tourists were evacuated from Ao Phrao. Other beaches on the island were unaffected...The oil slickwas caused by a leak in a PTT pipelinecarrying crudeoil being unloaded by an offshoretankerto its refineryabout 6.50am on Saturday.
The leak location is about 20 kilometres southeast of the Map Ta Phut industrial estate..the leak occurred in the pipelineat a single point mooring A single point mooringis an offshore-anchored buoyused as a deviceto transferoil from the sea to a tanker It is attached to the tankerto prevent it from drifting during the transferprocess.
The company said the incidentoccurred as an oil tankertransferred crudeoil via the buoyto supply to the company's oil refineryon the shore
Shortly after the leak, workers rushed to close the valves of the oil pipelineimmediately to stop any further leaks. A 200-metre-long boomwas placed around the floating oil to prevent the oil slickfrom spreading further.
Workers also used oil skimmers to remove the oil and put it in containers on boardthe ship.Four ships were deployed to sprayabout 35,000 litres of oil-spill dispersants to clean up the oil slickon the sea surface..
http://bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/362024/crews-cleaning-up-oil-polluted-ao-phrao-beach
http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/361829/huge-oil-slick-drifts-towards-rayong
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