“RN-Yuganskneftegaz” and paid a fine of $ 238 million rubles for the oil spill in KHMAO-Yugra.
The accident occurred in June 2015 on the pipeline Ust-balykskoye field. A large area of the waters of the ducts Cheuskino and the shoreline was polluted by the oil emulsion. Also affected plots in the Nefteyugansk district. According to investigators, the total area of contamination reached 24 hectares.
As established in the environmental Prosecutor’s office of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous district-Yugra, at the time of emergency, the pipeline has worked out the regulatory service life and has been in operation for over 17 years. It has happened eight impulses, but the appropriate measures for compliance with standards of industrial and ecological safety the company has not adopted.
Khanty-Mansiysk Interdistrict environmental Prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit to the “RN-Yuganskneftegaz”, and the company had to pay damages in full, reported the press service of the Prosecutor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous district-Yugra.
