The clean up effort found that the spill was from ten barrels of crude oil."Pekanbaru, Riau (ANTARA News) - The Chevron Pacific Indonesia Company has deployed hundreds of personnel from Marine Environmental Protection team to clean up oil spills in Dumai waters of Riau province.
The HCT-CTOM Manager of Chevron Aristo Joeristanto stated that the company has assisted in cleaning up oil spill in the deck of Medelin West Ship that occurred when the company was loading crude oil into the vessel on Wednesday (April 2).
"The clean up effort found that the spill was from ten barrels of crude oil," clarified Aristo through his message received here on Thursday.
The team also cleaned up the oil that spilled into the sea after it started to overflow into the waters.
According to Aristo, the Dumai Operation has a crisis management team that always stand by to respond to the emergency situation including oil spill in the waters.
"We have conducted an oil spill response following the existing procedure. We have deployed a mooring boat, a speedboat as well as a rubber boat to conduct oil boom operation to decrease oil spreading into in the sea. The team has also operated oil skimmer to siphon oil from sea level," he explained.
The team was established to handle oil spill around CPI oil seaport.
He added that the team has at least 100 trained personnel to handle crude oil spills in Dumai waters.
Chevron trained the team routinely on Waters Oil Spill Mitigation in Chevron oil terminal of Dumai.
The Chevron Manager Communications, Tiva Permata, pointed out that Chevron has sent a report to the Dumai Environment Sub-official on March 27, following the oil spills.
"The staff of Dumai Environment Sub-official had also visited Terminal 4 and taken water samples to conduct laboratory tests on March 28," Tiva asserted.
Tiva explained that the company will avoid such incidents in the future.
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