Fuel oil was pumped out of the first tank of the vessel Volgoneft-239
Fuel oil has been pumped out of the first of four tanks on the ship "Volgoneft-239", which was wrecked in the Black Sea. This was reported in the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on January 21.
"As of 12:00 from the stern of the vessel followed 30 bitumen trucks with fuel," - stated in the Telegram-channel of the Department.
The Ministry of Transport specified that about 500 tons of fuel oil was delivered to the shore, which is more than a third of the total volume of cargo in the tanker.
To ensure uninterrupted pumping of oil products, a technical crew is working on the vessel round the clock. Fuel is preheated to +45 degrees Celsius and then pumped through hoses into sealed tanks of bitumen trucks, which are equipped with a heating system.
After that, the vehicles drive up to the stern of the ship through a temporary artificial embankment. Currently, eight units of machinery are involved in the process, the ministry emphasized.
The Ministry of Transport also noted that all work on pumping out fuel oil is planned to be completed by the end of January.
On the same day it was reported that on the shore of the Azov Sea in the Krasnodar region after the accident with tankers again recorded emissions of fuel oil, the monitoring zone of beaches was extended to 265 km. By Tuesday morning, specialists managed to clean 6 km of the shore and collected 150 kg of contaminated soil.
The tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239crashed in the Kerch Strait due to bad weather on December 15, 2024. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group was set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
Later, on January 3, an oil slick was discovered in Sevastopol at the entrance to Balaklava Bay. The next day it was reported about the advance of fuel oil to the north along the Crimean coast, and Sevastopol declared a state of emergency of regional character.
On January 11, the emergency threat regime of a municipal nature was introduced due to the identified fuel oil stains in the Chernomorsky district in the west of Crimea.
