86 units of equipment and 219 employees of JSC "Uralsibnefteprovod" are occupied for mitigation of emergency on the oil pipeline in Bashkortostan.
Embankment of the place of leakage is carried out from the side of the Bishindy river at the place of incident, and slick bar is set, the Emergency Ministry in Bashkortostan reported.
Collection of petroleum product into the barn and the contaminated snowy masses for the subsequent evacuation and the removal to the oil-refining station "Subkhankulovo" is carried out, and the field oil pipeline is laid. As to 8 a.m. local time (6.00 a.m. Moscow time) March 9, bout 540 cu. m. of petroleum product has been collected and taken away. According to the information of Emergency Ministry, on March 9 afternoon a part of spilled oil got into the small river Bishindy, the inflow of the river Ik. The planned date of mitigation of the accident consequences is March 11. The breakthrough on the main oil pipeline "Nijnevartovsk-Kurgan-Kuybyshev" of JSC "Uralsibnefteprovod" with the diameter of 1200 mm, and pressure of about 50 atmosphere occurred on March 8, at about 3.30 p.m. local time (1.30 p.m. Moscow time) near the village Timirovo of Tuymazy region of Bashkortostan. As a result of decompression on upper generating pipe on 1925th km the leakage of oil occurred, affecting the area of approximately 5300 sq. m. The volume of leakage it is being detailed, the oil pipeline is cut off.
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