RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Transpetro, a transport and logistics subsidiary of Petrobras (;), stated this Friday that there was no oil leak at its São Sebastião Waterway Terminal (Tebar), on the coast of São Paulo, after local community having informed the company the day before about the presence of traces of oil in the Mãe Isabel stream.
“The company sent a team to check the situation on site and preventively installed containment barriers in the stream. They have already been removed,” Transpetro said in the note.
The company also reported that it carried out inspections in the region with the Environment Department of the municipality of São Sebastião, “identifying and removing a small amount of material whose origin has not yet been identified”.
According to Transpetro, the São Sebastião Environmental Agency (Cetesb) carried out an inspection at Tebar and found no signs of extravasation of any material, which would have confirmed normal operations.
The newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published this Friday that an oil spill reached beaches and mangrove areas in São Sebastião and that residents said that the incident occurred last Wednesday in a pipe connected to the Transpetro terminal.
According to the report, the city of São Sebastião fined Transpetro 50 thousand reais because of the alleged leak. When asked about the fine, the company informed that “it was not notified by the city hall and, if so, it will analyze the administrative decision in due course”.
