The oil spill near Novorossiysk turned out to be 400 thousand times larger than the originator of the leak reported. The area was 80 km²

The oil spill near Novorossiysk turned out to be 400 thousand times larger than the press service of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, where the leak occurred, stated. About it testifies satellite imagery of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The area of ​​the slick from the release of oil products was 80 square kilometers, not 200 square meters, as claimed.

“The spill is much larger than the declared one, since the area of ​​oil pollution at the time of the radar survey was almost 80 square kilometers. On August 8, the oil slick was extended from the coast into the open sea at a distance of 19 kilometers, ”the RAS reported.

Recall that the release occurred on August 7 during the injection of oil on the Greek oil tanker Minerva Symphony. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which carried out the loading, said that the oil that got into the water spread over an area of ​​200 square meters, the volume – “about 12 cubic meters.”

This year, oil spills have already have repeatedly occurred in the Krasnodar Territory in the Tuapse region. Local residents complained about the acrid smell of oil in the area of ​​the wild beach, and there they also found a black oily spot. Oil slick was also seen in the port waters. Earlier, in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea, 150 km from Feodosia, a trace of a ship’s discharge of oil products was found.

Spills of oil and oil products in Russia are quite frequent. By calculations The Insider, large-scale emissions of harmful substances into Russian rivers and seas occur on average once a month.