New fuel oil emissions were recorded on the Black Sea coastline

New fuel oil emissions have been detected at 17 sites on the Black Sea coast. This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia on January 26.

"On 17 sites with a length of more than 63 km local emissions of fractions of oil products were recorded, they are being eliminated," - said in the message of the agency in its Telegram-channel.

For all the time of work on liquidation of fuel oil spill specialists and volunteers cleaned more than 303 km of the coast, collected more than 175 thousand tons of contaminated sand and removed 134 thousand tons to temporary storage sites. In addition, 153 square kilometers of water space in the Black Sea water area were inspected during the day, 5090 square kilometers were checked in total. Sorbent for the day treated 2.3 thousand square meters of water area, for the whole time - 48.7 thousand square meters. m.

Divers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations use teleoperated underwater vehicles to inspect sunken parts of wrecked tankers and collect fuel oil from the bottom. Bags with oil products are then lifted to the surface and brought to the shore to be utilized.

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On the eve, January 25, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev said that the specialists of the Morspassluzhba have fully completed pumping out fuel oil from the tanker "Volgoneft-239", which sits aground near Cape Panagia in the Krasnodar Territory, reports "Gazeta.Ru". Now the tanks are cleaned to then saw the stern of the vessel and utilize it. After that it will be possible to proceed to lifting its bow and "Volgoneft-212".

January 23, Head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov said that the Russian government will allocate 1.5 billion rubles to reimburse the costs caused by the elimination of the wreck of the two ships. The head of the ministry said that Rosprirodnadzor would calculate the amount of damage caused to the ecosystem by the fuel oil spill in three months. Later this amount will be charged to the perpetrators of pollution in court.

The tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024 due to bad weather. 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 that the fuel oil was moving northward along the Crimean coast, and Sevastopol declared a state of emergency of regional character. In addition, due to the identified fuel oil stains, a municipal emergency threat regime was introduced in the Chornomorsky district in the west of Crimea.