Booms set up on beaches to contain spill from offshore pipeline
Workers carry booms in the hope of blocking an oil spill caused by a leak from an undersea pipeline 20 kilometres off the coast at Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong on Friday. (Reuters Photo)
RAYONG: Hundreds of workers set up oil barriers along beachfronts in this eastern province on Friday as authorities raced to limit the environmental damage from oil that leaked from an underwater pipeline earlier this week.
The leak from a pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining Plc (SPRC) started late on Tuesday and was brought under control a day later after spilling an estimated 50,000 litres of oil into the ocean 20 kilometres off the coast.
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