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Off the coast of Kuwait has undergone extensive environmental disaster

In coastal water got a lot of barrels of oil.

Emergency crews on Sunday trying to stop leak of oil in the Persian Gulf. About 35 thousand barrels of oil may leak into the sea near deposits of al Khafji Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

“Emergency crews are still trying to stop the oil spill near the southern area of the RAS al-LRC in Kuwait,” said the spokesperson of the Kuwait oil company (KOC).

Oil leaked into the water next to the oil complex, construction of which involved Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The project is estimated at $ 30 billion and involves the construction of an oil refinery, which is daily will need to process 615 thousand barrels of oil.

Saudi Arabia has put into effect “the plan of crisis management” and conducted aerial photography of their oil factories along the coast, said in a statement published by official news Agency SPA. Kuwait petroleum Corporation said that teams from Saudi Arabia and Chevron Oil Spill Response Limited clean coastal waters.

In 2016, a result of the oil spill on the BP Clair platform in the North sea water were about 95 tons of raw materials.

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