The vessel is now in Sri Lankan water at about 70 nautical miles from the coast
PDVSA discovered the spill in the Golfete de Coro area in Falcon state during an aerial inspection, a statement from the company said
The bigger part which was lying outside the lagoon is being towed toward the high seas," the shipping ministry spokesman Jasvin Sok Appadu said over the phone
Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius in late July and leaked hundreds of tonnes of oil in the environmentally sensitive region days later.
"At the time I'm talking to you, almost all the oil has been removed from the ship," Pravind Jugnauth told reporters, according to remarks shared by his office
Urgent efforts increased in Mauritius on Monday to empty a stranded Japanese ship of an estimated 2,500 tons of oil before the vessel breaks up
The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil spill
Engineers accompanied by experts from Singapore firm and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) further intensified their efforts to tame the blaze
The blaze at the well is so massive that plumes of black smoke can be seen from a distance of more than 30 kilometers
Brent crude, the global benchmark, was down 56 cents at $65.93 by 1215 GMT
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