ONGC says it can handle oil spills up to 700 tonnes

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country’s biggest oil explorer, has a capacity to handle oil spills of up to 700 tonnes, the company said in its first sustainability report released last week. However, the company has affiliations with a collaboration of major global spill response organisations to combat spills of greater magnitude. The report covers a one year period ended March 31, 2010. The capacity of 700 tonnes is small if the recent oil spill of over 800 tonnes off the Mumbai coast, caused by collision between container vessel MSC Chitra and cargo ship Khailijia 3

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