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Oil spill in Komi

Oil production in Timan-Pechora province

About four tons of oil has spilled from an underground pipeline in the Komi Republic.

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The regional centre on emergency situations informs to RIA Novosti that the spill comes from a rupture in a 500 mm pipeline in the Sosnogorsk region. The pipeline belongs to Lukoil-Komi.

The spill has been stopped and oil transport resumed, the regional authorities report.

 

 

 

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