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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Repairs completed at Petrotrin oil spill site

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Clean-up and re­pairs to Petror­in's Well Wil­son 78 (WN-78) have been com­plet­ed and nor­mal op­er­a­tions have re­sumed at the com­pa­ny's Pe­nal/Bar­rack­pore fa­cil­i­ties.

This fol­lows an in­ci­dent on Mon­day when a two-inch union on the WN-78 well head part­ed, re­sult­ing in an oil and gas spill. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly ten bar­rels of oil was spilled with­in Wil­son Gath­er­ing Sta­tion #3 (WN-3) bund wall and three bar­rels of flu­id were sprayed on­to sur­round­ing veg­e­ta­tion and the im­me­di­ate en­vi­ron­ment.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, Petrotrin said its emer­gency re­spon­ders vis­it­ed the area, as­sessed the im­pact and con­duct­ed ex­ten­sive in­spec­tion and re­pair works.

Clean-up op­er­a­tions at the well site was com­plet­ed at 5 pm on Mon­day. The well flow line sys­tem was al­so re­paired and re­turned to op­er­a­tions.

The com­pa­ny said the oil spilled with­in Sta­tion WN- 3 bund wall was re­cov­ered and clean up works at the Gath­er­ing Sta­tion are 90 per cent com­plet­ed.

Petrotrin's HSE, se­cu­ri­ty, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, med­ical, pro­duc­tion and le­gal and land man­age­ment per­son­nel were still on site yes­ter­day at­tend­ing to the needs of the res­i­dents and en­sur­ing that op­er­a­tions re­turned to nor­mal.


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