After a pipeline has ruptured, about 22,000 barrels (almost 3.5 million liters, mind you) seep into the desert in Libya every day. Since Wednesday, workers from the Arabian Gulf Oil Company have been feverishly trying to plug the leak, which began on Tuesday, according to the operator.
The pipeline, through which crude oil flows, connects the Sarir oil field to the Tobruk terminal in the east of the country on the Mediterranean Sea. The Arabian Gulf Oil Company, which operates the pipeline, estimates the leak spills about 22,000 barrels of oil per day.
The company, a subsidiary of the state-owned National Oil Corporation and based in the city of Benghazi, blames the leak on the pipeline’s lack of maintenance.
Source: Krone
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