Oil rig or tanker suspected in Vietnam spill

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

HANOI (AFP) — Vietnamese workers have removed over 200 tonnes of oil from the country's central shore over the past week in a spill officials said may have come from an oil rig or tanker.

Beaches had been blackened in areas stretching along about 400 kilometres (250 miles) of seafront in four central provinces and the city of Danang, including the China Beach resort area, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said.

Oil samples had been sent to the state Directorate for Standards and Quality to determine whether the pollutant leaked from an oil rig or a ship, Ha Son Hai, director of the Danang centre for oil spills, was quoted as saying.

The centre had also asked the state-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, formerly known as PetroVietnam, to check whether the oil had...