Poole oil spill: Perenco has history of oil, gas and acid leaks

THE company behind the major Poole Harbour oil spill previously leaked 40 barrels of hydrochloric acid, the Echo can reveal.

Anglo-French oil and gas company Perenco received two formal warnings from the Environment Agency (EA) in a ten-year period for incidents at its Wytch Farm facility in Purbeck. acid bath t shirt

In October 2020, around 6.25 cubic metres (40 barrels) of liquid – 28 per cent of which was hydrochloric acid – spewed into the site’s ‘moat’ storage system.

The EA said that although no offsite environmental impact was noted, the initial spillage had the “potential to be harmful to those working on site and the local environment”.