Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat also addressed questions on why containment booms were not pre-emptively deployed at beaches.
Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat speaks at a press conference on Jun 24, 2024, addressing the oil spill clean-up operations. SINGAPORE: Standard operating procedures were effective in cleaning up the 400 tonnes of oil that spilled in Singapore waters after a recent maritime accident, Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said.
The oil spill occurred on the afternoon of Jun 14 after a Netherlands-flagged dredger hit a stationary bunker vessel, causing oil from the latter's damaged cargo tank to spill into the water. Despite the challenges of working at night and under bad weather conditions, T&T “did well to deploy 200m of oil booms around the damaged vessel by working through the night”, and the deployment of the booms was completed at 5.15am the next day, Mr Chee said.
As deploying the containment boom around the oil spill would take several hours,"we must expect a significant amount of oil that is spilled in the sea to be carried by tidal currents and waves to other locations". “If you are going to deploy booms along the entire southern coastline from Pasir Panjang to East Coast, that would require more than 46km of booms,” he said.
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