Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Her­itage) said it has iden­ti­fied the source of an oil spill in its Guayagua­yare Field and the 10-inch trunk pipeline was re­paired us­ing a pipeline clamp.

In a state­ment late yes­ter­day, the state-owned en­er­gy com­pa­ny said the leak, which was re­port­ed on Sat­ur­day, was not in close prox­im­i­ty to any pop­u­lat­ed com­mu­ni­ties.

“Her­itage’s Oil Spill Re­sponse Team im­me­di­ate­ly mo­bilised re­sources for con­tain­ment and re­cov­ery of the spilled hy­dro­car­bons, and com­mence­ment of restora­tion of the im­pact­ed area. Wildlife sur­veil­lance and res­cue crews were al­so de­ployed to sur­vey and as­sess the area,” the com­pa­ny said.

In keep­ing with its oil spill re­sponse pro­to­cols, Her­itage is car­ry­ing out in­ter­mit­tent air qual­i­ty test­ing in the af­fect­ed area and the lev­els con­tin­ue to read “with­in ac­cept­able pa­ra­me­ters.”

The in­ci­dent has been re­port­ed to the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI) and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) and Her­itage is keep­ing both agen­cies abreast of the sit­u­a­tion.