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In this November 17 file photo, workers of Heritage Petroleum Company Limited were at
the Vessigny Beach tending to an oil leak at the Vessigny river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marvin Hamilton\/TT Newsday
In this November 17 file photo, workers of Heritage Petroleum Company Limited were at
the Vessigny Beach tending to an oil leak at the Vessigny river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By TT Newsday<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PORT SPAIN
Petroleumworld 11 23 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before they knew the six-inch pipeline was leaking oil, residents got confused when they started smelling strong fumes late at night on November 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One resident assumed someone was pouring kerosene around their house to set it on fire, while another thought their brush cutter was leaking fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On realising the pipeline was causing the smell the next day, they quickly alerted Heritage and the company\u2019s disaster response team was dispatched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, residents were happy to report that the pipeline had been repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kevina Dickson, whose family lives near the spill, told Newsday, Heritage \u00abjust told us a line had a leak and they clamped it…that was about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not affected any more because the smell has dissipated, so that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moving forward, Dickson said she hopes Heritage upgrades its pipeline infrastructure which she assumes is outdated, given the number of oil spills that have occurred recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI hope that they would do a lot of upgrades to their old lines, because I know a lot of lines need repairs. So I\u2019m hoping that they can do that to minimise (the risk of) other spills occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from the Vessigny spill, ruptured Heritage pipelines have caused other recent spills, including one in Pointe-a-Pierre on August 8, Point Fortin on September 13 and two separate spills in Santa Flora and Cocoyea on October 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contacted for comment, a Heritage official confirmed repairs on the ruptured Vessigny pipeline were complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked if the recent spills suggested infrastructural problems with Heritage\u2019s pipeline network that needed to be addressed, the official told Newsday they were unable to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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