TOR engineers stop oil spillage

Tema, Jan. 26, GNA- The Safety and Environmental staff of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) on Thursday afternoon, acted swiftly to stop an oil leakage on one of its underneath pipe lines within the plant.

The workers isolated the affected line buried underground

and used sand bags to contain the oil to prevent further

spillage into a nearby gutter, Mrs Aba Lokko, Public Affairs

Manager of TOR told the GNA in Tema. She explained that part of the underground line had

corroded thus giving way to the leakage, but its obscurity

made it very difficult to detect until the leakage of the oil

surfaced with some spilling into the gutter, which flowed into

the municipal drain. Mrs Lokko said the corrosion was detected after the experts

had dug the area and the engineers intervened promptly to

save the situation. Concerning the oil that had spilled into the municipal drain,

Mr Kingsley Kofi Ditsa, Environmental Services Manager said

foams were being used to collect it for re-processing so it

would not go waste. "Some of these operational hazards occur occasionally but

we are able to contain it, Mr Ditsa stated.