Seacor to clean-up Lebanese oil spill
Posted: 16 October 2006
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Seacor Environmental Services International Ltd (SES) has been awarded a contract by the United States Agency for International Development to participate in the clean-up of an oil spill from the Jiyeh Power Plant.
Working with its local partner, Conapro SAL, SES will both mobilize its international specialists and equipment to Lebanon , as well as employ and train a significant local work force from amongst those communities most affected by the spill.
 SES, in coordination with other local and international response groups, will focus on a section of the northern coastline, stretching from Byblos to Anfej.
Fuel tanks at the power plant, located approximately 30 km south of Beirut , were destroyed during the recent Israeli-Lebanese conflict, spilling an estimated 10,000-15,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the eastern Mediterranean Sea .
Wind patterns and water currents spread the oil spill north, impacting two-thirds of Lebanon ˙s coastline and reaching southern Syria , in what is one of the region˙s worst oil spill incidents.
Neil Challis, President of Seacor Environmental Services International, said: ´Our work will include the cleaning of contaminated coastline, fishing and leisure craft, and a number of harbours of historic significance in northern Lebanon .ˇ |
