Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2,000 bar­rels of bunker fu­el re­main in the Gulf­stream barge that ran aground a lit­tle over three months ago off the coast of Cove in To­ba­go, spew­ing thou­sands of bar­rels of oil.

Con­tin­u­ing ef­forts to re­move liq­uid waste from the barge wreck­age site have yield­ed sig­nif­i­cant re­sults, ac­cord­ing to the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency.

In an up­date yes­ter­day, TEMA di­rec­tor Al­lan Stew­art told Guardian Me­dia that a to­tal of 59,682 in­ter­im bar­rels of liq­uid waste had been con­tained. Of this amount, 28,650 bar­rels of fu­el have been cap­tured so far, along with 30,450 bar­rels of bunker fu­el which have been vac­u­umed from in­side the ves­sel.

 Stew­art said, “Those booms that were used out at sea, they are now go­ing through the process of clean­ing them to take them back to their ware­hous­es and back to Trinidad. It’s a vi­o­la­tion to move with items used to con­tain hy­dro­car­bons if they are not cleaned.”

He could not say when sal­vaging of the ves­sel would be­gin. Ques­tions sent to En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young went unan­swered.