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Board: Deep Panuke incident ‘contained’
The Chronicle Herald
Published March 10, 2014 - 4:06pm
A weekend hydrocarbon spill from the Deep Panuke offshore natural gas field is under control.
“It’s been contained,” said Kathleen Funke of the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board in an interview Monday.
The board was informed Friday about the spill, estimated at about 137 litres and based on a Transport Canada air surveillance view of the sheen on the ocean surface.
Three more aerial surveillance passes on Saturday detected no further evidence of a sheen.
Funke, who called the spill “on the very small side,” said the hydrocarbon had dissipated.
The source of the hydrocarbon has reportedly been isolated, but Funke said the board is waiting on a report on the cause of the spill.
Jay Averill, a spokesman for Encana Corp., Deep Panuke’s owner, said the cause of the spill has been confirmed but he was not in a position to disclose it.
“It’s not an ongoing threat,” he said in an interview Monday from Calgary.
Averill said the cause of the spill will be reported to the board, which regulates petroleum activities off Nova Scotia.
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