A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash ashore and blacken the sand.
Workers clean oil spills caused by a leak from an undersea pipeline 20 km off Thailand’s eastern coast at Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong province, Thailand, January 29, 2022. REUTERS
The leak from the pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining Public Company Limited started late on Tuesday and was brought under control a day later after spilling an estimated 50,000 liters of oil into the ocean 20 km from the country’s industrialized eastern seaboard.Some of the oil reached the shoreline at Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong province late on Friday after spreading over 47 sq km of sea in the gulf.
The navy is working with SPRC to contain the leak and said the main oil mass was still offshore with only a small amount washing up on at least two spots along the 12-km-long beach.
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