‘Disaster area’ slick drives away visitors
Huge clean-up effort under way after oil slips through booms
Rayong: Mae Ramphueng beach in this eastern province has been declared a disaster area after oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand washed ashore and blackened the sand.
Personnel from various agencies were stepping up efforts to remove oil sludge from the shoreline.
The leak from the pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining Plc (SPRC) started late on Tuesday and was brought under control a day later after spilling into the Gulf of Thailand 20 kilometres off the coast of Rayong, officials said yesterday.
A 2-km stretch of Mae Ramphueng beach in Moo 10,…
