The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI) has con­firmed that it re­ceived re­ports of an in­ci­dent on Fri­day at Clus­ter S-912, a fa­cil­i­ty owned and op­er­at­ed by Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, lo­cat­ed in the South West Sol­da­do Field.

Line Min­is­ters Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, and Ernesto Ke­sar, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, have been briefed on the sit­u­a­tion and con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor de­vel­op­ments close­ly.

As of 3:00 p.m., a light hy­dro­car­bon sheen was ob­served mov­ing in a north-east­er­ly di­rec­tion, ac­cord­ing to tra­jec­to­ry mod­el­ling.

Pre­lim­i­nary es­ti­mates in­di­cate that the vol­ume of the hy­dro­car­bon spill is less than one bar­rel.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um said it has de­ployed re­sponse teams to the af­fect­ed site and has ini­ti­at­ed ad­di­tion­al sur­veil­lance mea­sures to con­tain and as­sess the im­pact of the in­ci­dent.

The MEEI said it re­mains ac­tive­ly en­gaged with Her­itage, and tech­ni­cal per­son­nel have been de­ployed to the Trin­mar Base to sup­port re­sponse ef­forts. In­ves­ti­ga­tions and mon­i­tor­ing are on­go­ing.