2-Year-Old Slick Still Threatens Persian Gulf
A massive oil slick that drifted into the Persian Gulf from Iran’s Now Ruz oil field two years ago still menaces marine life and desalination plants, according to a Saudi government report Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s Meteorological and Environmental Agency said oil spills from the Now Ruz offshore wells continue to pollute the gulf.
“It is estimated that 1.5 million barrels of crude oil have poured from the leaking wells in Iranian waters in the northwestern gulf since the spill began” in January, 1983, the report said.
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