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21 July 2010
China continued to beef up efforts to clean up the oil spill in Dalian to allow full port operations at the northeastern city to resume as soon as possible.
Hong Kong-listed Dalian Port (PDA) Co had kept its crude oil terminal closed for business, a company source said on Wednesday, while all the other terminals in Xingang area were back in operations.
Today is the fifth day since the blast at two crude oil pipelines of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) occurred near Dalian’s Xingang Harbour and created the spill.
In a disclosure to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday night, Dalian Port said that only ground operations at the crude oil terminal had resumed and works were underway to resume vessel loading and unloading operations soon.
Around 430 square-kilometre offshore area was polluted by the spill, with a 10 square-kilometre water section in Dalian was seriously contaminated.
The blaze from the busted crude pipelines took 15 hours to put out, based on various media accounts.
It might take at a few more days to completely recover the 1,500 tonnes of spilled crude and contain the slick from seeping further into the Yellow Sea, a Dalian Oceanic and Fishery Administration official told us.
Various media accounts quoted local officials as saying that clean-up operations would take at least a week up to 10 days.
Shipments of some 30,000-50,000 tonnes/day of oil were disrupted by the incident, based on estimates provided by Shanghai-based C1 Energy Co Ltd.
This had prompted West Pacific Petrochemical Corp - a refinery operated by PetroChina, Sinochem Group and France’s Total at Dalian - to cut its oil processing capacity by 20% this month, said Amy Sun, an analyst from C1 Energy.
source: www.icis.com
China continued to beef up efforts to clean up the oil spill in Dalian to allow full port operations at the northeastern city to resume as soon as possible.
Hong Kong-listed Dalian Port (PDA) Co had kept its crude oil terminal closed for business, a company source said on Wednesday, while all the other terminals in Xingang area were back in operations.
Today is the fifth day since the blast at two crude oil pipelines of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) occurred near Dalian’s Xingang Harbour and created the spill.
In a disclosure to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday night, Dalian Port said that only ground operations at the crude oil terminal had resumed and works were underway to resume vessel loading and unloading operations soon.
Around 430 square-kilometre offshore area was polluted by the spill, with a 10 square-kilometre water section in Dalian was seriously contaminated.
The blaze from the busted crude pipelines took 15 hours to put out, based on various media accounts.
It might take at a few more days to completely recover the 1,500 tonnes of spilled crude and contain the slick from seeping further into the Yellow Sea, a Dalian Oceanic and Fishery Administration official told us.
Various media accounts quoted local officials as saying that clean-up operations would take at least a week up to 10 days.
Shipments of some 30,000-50,000 tonnes/day of oil were disrupted by the incident, based on estimates provided by Shanghai-based C1 Energy Co Ltd.
This had prompted West Pacific Petrochemical Corp - a refinery operated by PetroChina, Sinochem Group and France’s Total at Dalian - to cut its oil processing capacity by 20% this month, said Amy Sun, an analyst from C1 Energy.
source: www.icis.com
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