The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has dismissed any chance of water contamination due to an oil spill from a vessel that broke down in the sea near Old-Ningo.
The vessel, transporting more than one million liters of crude oil, reportedly had to dock urgently in the Prampram area instead of its intended destination, the Tema port, because of technical issues.
Since Sunday, the NPA, Customs Preventive Service, National Security, and other stakeholders have been working urgently to remove crude oil from the vessel without causing any spillage.
However, Abdul-Kudus Mohammed, the Public Relations Officer of the NPA, reassures JoyNews that there is no need for concern.
“I understand that there could be some possible droppings of it into the water but my information is that it is not of a certain proportion that could be a cause for worry.
“For now, our remedy is around the organisation to cart the fuel from the vessel to the refinery.”
He also assured that the four-day evacuation exercise should be completed today.
“Hopefully by close of day, we should be able to fully evacuate the crude oil on the vessel meant for Akwaaba Refinery
“if we are not able to do that late into the night then we can finish sometime tomorrow morning. But the hope is that we should be able to evacuate all of the crude oil from the vessel,” he said.