Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA said last Thursday
(26) that analysis of a vast oil spill along the country’s northeastern beaches
showed the crude did not originate in the country. The spill spans over
1,500 km of Brazil’s northeast coast, affecting wildlife and polluting
some of the region’s postcard beaches.
ANP believes the oil could have been spilled by a tanker transporting
it far from the Brazilian coast, but this possibility has not yet been
confirmed. An ANP statement said there were no reports of spills by any
operators of drilling rigs in the country.