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Beached oil pipes still a mystery for Chumphon

Beached oil pipes still a mystery for Chumphon

Oil from 14 large pipes that washed ashore at Chumphon’s Ban Bang Bird Beach on February 12 is being tested to try and determine the debris’ origin.

Chumphon Governor Narong Pholla-iad said the results of tests on the oil – and on sand from the beach in Pathiu district to check for contamination – would be known in one month.

Beached oil pipes still a mystery for Chumphon
Initial testing at the beach turned up no trace of toxins, he said.
No one has yet claimed ownership of the pipes.
The Ministry of Energy’s Department of Mineral Fuels is checking with oil and gas exploration concessionaires and other owners of tanker ships.
The pipes – each 11 metres long and 80 centimetres in outer radius – are being stored at a Map Ammarit Police Station patrol rest stop 25 kilometres from the beach until the owner is found.
If the owner is not found within three months, further action will be taken.

Beached oil pipes still a mystery for Chumphon
Narong thanked provincial officials in charge of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, and Marine and Coastal Resources, PTT, IRPC’s Chumphon petroleum plant for assisting in the removal of the pipes from the beach, an operation that took five days, from February 19 to 24.

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