Oil spilling into the Caspian Sea
Posted: 13 October 2004
Oil has been spilling from offshore wells in the Caspian Sea, and out of wells along the coast, a local news agency has reported.
The Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry was quoted by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency as saying an oil slick on the water surface at the Pribrezhnoye oilfield, on Kazakhstan's offshore sector of the Caspian, has reached 550 yards in length and 5.5 yards in width. Three wells are leaking at the Pribrezhnoye oilfield, two in the sea, the news agency said.
There also is an oil slick at the Pustynnoye oilfield. Oil spills have been found near the mouths of five wells on the coast at the Yugo-Zapadnoye Tazhigali oilfield, the news agency said.
A rise in the level of the Caspian Sea has caused between 700 and 1,200 oil wells to be flooded in Kazakhstan between 1978 and 1995, according to Alexander Bolshov, a consultant for the Atyrau branch office of the Kazakh agency for applied ecology.
Posted by Alexander Lindsay, Editor Pipeline Magazine
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