The commission for the elimination of the fuel oil spill in the Krasnodar Territory has approved a strategy to raise the sunken parts of two vessels from the bottom of the Black Sea. The fuel oil is planned to be pumped out this year, and the sunken parts will remain underwater until the end of the year.
Our goal is to localize the sunken parts with cofferdams before the start of the autumn storms to prevent fuel oil from entering the open sea. Next year, when we receive the technologies, we will try to ensure the lifting of both the cofferdams and all three sunken parts.
As part of the approved plan, cofferdams (watertight cofferdams) will be built to cover the sunken parts of the vessels. Fuel oil will be pumped out through special hatches.
We are looking for optimal methods to facilitate the process of pumping out petroleum products.
Russian Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit assured that after the fuel oil is pumped out, the sunken parts of the vessels will be raised using standard technologies.
The tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" were wrecked on December 15, 2024 in the Kerch Strait, which led to a spill of petroleum products and pollution of the coast of the Krasnodar Territory.
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