Brazil Navy investigates new oil spill off coast
Source: Reuters
Brazil Navy investigates new oil spill off coast
BRASILIA | Thu May 17, 2012 3:28pm EDT
(Reuters) - An oil spill was discovered off Brazil's coast near the country's Espirito Santo state, Brazil's Navy said on Thursday, the latest in a series of spills that have raised questions about the safety of a massive expansion of the country's oil production capacity.
The Navy said it has sent a team to investigate and has no immediate estimate of the leak's size. Petrobras informed Ibama, Brazil's environmental protection agency, of the problem on Wednesday, said a press spokeswoman for the agency in Vitoria, Espirito Santo's capital.
Spokespeople at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, declined to comment.
Oil workers returning home after work offshore said there was an oil stain about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) long on the ocean near the company's P-57 oil platform, the Folha de S. Paulo daily newspaper reported on Thursday.
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