NPA allays fears after crude oil spillage around Old Ningo [Video]

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has ruled out any possibility of water contamination resulting from oil spillage from a vessel which has broken down on the sea around Old-Ningo.

The vessel, carrying over one million litres of crude, was reported to have made an emergency docking at the Prampram area instead of the Tema port due to technical challenges.

The NPA, Customs Preventive Service, National Security and other stakeholders have since Sunday been racing against time to cart crude oil from it, without spillage.

“For now, our remedy is around the organisation to cart the fuel from the vessel to the refinery.”

“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.