Seventeen tons of oil spilled in Samara pipeline rupture
Nearly twenty tons of oil have spilled as the result of a pipeline rupture in the Samara Region, on the Volga River, a spokesman for the local emergencies ministry said Monday, RIA Novosti reports.
"A leak was detected Sunday afternoon at around 4:15 p.m. local time (3:15 p.m. Moscow time) on the Bobrovka-Kuleshovka pipeline, near Neftegorsk," the spokesman said.
As a result of the rupture, nearly 20 cubic meters, or 17 tons, of oil spilled over an area of some 300 square meters.