Govt is still not certain about the origin of oil spill in Seribu Islands
Tuesday, October 19 2004 - 01:28 AM WIB
But the ministry has promised to continue the investigation of the case.
?In order to continue the investigation, the ministry is coordinating with the directorate-general of maritime transportation, Jakarta administration, the Seribu Islands authorities and several other institutions,? deputy to the minister of environment Sudariyono said on Monday in Jakarta.
Sudariyono said that the oil spill had been suspected to spread at least 11 islands in the Seribu Islands regency, including National Sea Park, since the first the case was reported to the ministry on October 5, 2004. The ministry has already taken several measures.
?The Ministry of Environment has already dispatched a team along with other agencies to observe and investigate the spill.? Sudariyono said.
Earlier, preliminary result from a study conducted by Institute of Oil and Gas Studies (Lemigas) shows that the oil spill that polluted the waters of Seribu Islands is not from the oil produced by CNOOC and BP-ONWJ.
The Lemigas examined the fingerprint of the oil spill and found that the oil has different features from the CNOOC and BP-ONWJ oil field in that area. Earlier these two companies were suspected of polluting the waters in the Jakarta Bay.
The sample taken from Pramuka an Panggang islands has shown that it is like the oil found in Southeast Asia and different from the sample taken from Krisna oilfield belonging to CNOOC and Zelda oil field of BP-ONWJ, Imam Sostrowidjojo from Lemigas said during a press briefing at the Upstream oil and gas regulating authority BP Migas office in Jakarta on Friday.
The oil sample taken from the spill indicates that it is from a high-growth oxidative area, whereas the oil fields of CNOOC and BP-ONWJ are from a low growth reduxative area.
With this result, Imam made it sure that the oil spill is not from CNOOC BP-ONWJ oil fields. (*)