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Brazils Petrobras reports 15,000 litre oil spill
5th June 2003
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) (PBR.N) this week said preliminary estimates suggested some 15,000 litres (3,963 gallons) of oil had spilled as a ship unloaded at one of its terminal on the Sao Paulo coast.
The spill took place at the Almirante Barroso terminal in Sao Sebastiao, the company said in a statement. The beaches in Sao Sebastiao, a region north of Brazil's largest port Santos, are a favorite for tourists from Sao Paulo.
Nobody was immediately available at Petrobras to comment on the spill which was equivalent to about 94 U.S. barrels or less than a oil tanker truck.
In May last year Petrobras said it had been fined some $8 million for environmental damage to a bay resort area not far from Rio de Janeiro from a spill of about 16,000 litres of oil from a tanker.
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