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Court looking into Repsol & Pride role in oil spill off Spain
(7/5/2010 - OGI: Barcelona) A court in Tarragona, Spain has commenced an inquiry into the responsibility for an oil spill that occurred last year in the Mediterranean Sea offshore eastern Spain.
According to Spain's newspaper El Pais today, the court has opened proceedings to ascertain whether Repsol, the operator of the Montanazo D-5 and Lubina-1 wells some 45 km offshore Tarragona and Pride International, operator of the semisubmersible drilling rig Pride North America, which drilled the wells, are guilty of negligence in oil spills that occurred during the drilling of the wells.
El Pais quoted a Repsol official as saying that the volume of oil spilled was minimal, that there was not even a contingency plan activated by the authorities, and that the incident was resolved and cleaned up within days. It said, however, that Repsol paid approximately US$305,900 to fishermen following the spill as compensation.
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