Indonesiaviews, July 30, 2010 – 10:38 am
Tanjung, South Kalimantan (ANTARA News) – The pipeline of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina in Tanjung, Maliau village, Jaro subdistrict, South Kalimantan, developed a leak and scores of barrels of oil submerging 15 houses.
The pipeline developed a leak on Saturday (July 24), forcing many of the residents to move to higher ground, ANTARA learned here on Thursday.
The leak developed following pumpings in Maliau village, but as the pipeline was already too old, the oil leak developed. Some 149 barrels of oil which was supposed to be sent to the Balikpapan plant, became wasted with Pertamina suffering a loss of hundreds of billions of rupiah.
“The people living in the oil spil had been given a compensation for food, three meals a day, because it is strictly forbidden to use fire for cooking in the area,” a local villager said Thursday.
Noor Erfansyah, spokesman for PT Pertamina of Tanjung said he did not have an idea about the loss caused by the leak in Maliau village.
He also said that some of the pipelines of PT Pertamina in Tanjung located in four different blocks, namely Tepian Timur, Kambitin, Tanjung and Warukin, were already too old.
Preventive maintenance of the old pipelines is therefore conducted for 12 to 15 days each month, in addition to pumping operations.
According to regulations, 25 meters on the left and right sides of the pipelines no houses are allowed, but the fact shows that many of the local residents built houses right above the pipelines.
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