More than two months after the oil spill accident in Penglai 19-3 oilfield in Bohai Bay, the operator ConocoPhillips held the first media communication meeting on August 24th, claiming that with the help of CNOOC, the clean-up work was 95% completed.
First of all, I would like to thank CNOOC for all its help after the accident. Georg Storaker, President of ConocoPhillips China Company, said that he was very happy to cooperate with CNOOC in the accident handling process. "CNOOC mobilizes all resources to participate in accident handling".
The State Oceanic Administration requires ConocoPhillips to take all effective measures to thoroughly investigate and cut off the source of oil spill before August 3 1 to thoroughly investigate and eliminate the risk of oil spill again.
Turui apologized for the oil spill and promised to thoroughly clean up the pollution before August 20 1 1 year. However, he refused to talk about the follow-up compensation work, and there was no deadline for the completion of the pollution assessment.
According to the site introduction of ConocoPhillips, as of August 24th, 700 barrels of crude oil and 2,500 barrels of mineral oil-based mud were leaked in this oil spill. The plugging work can ensure that no new oil spill will occur. At present, only the residual oil droplets under the seabed are oozing, and the amount of oil droplets oozing out every day is about 2 liters.
Regarding the treatment measures after the accident, ConocoPhillips said that Platform B has been blocked by pressure relief measures and plans to inject cement into the new well to ensure permanent plugging. However, ConocoPhillips is noncommittal about whether the effectiveness of this measure is recognized by the Oceanic Administration. Previously, the Oceanic Administration had issued a document accusing ConocoPhillips of taking measures to lower blood pressure and set up oil traps as temporary measures to treat the symptoms rather than the root causes.
ConocoPhillips said that "as the operator, it will bear the main responsibility", but Georg Storaker responded that "no compensation claim has been received". Georg Storaker said that lawyers have filed a lawsuit, asking ConocoPhillips to set up a compensation fund of 654.38 billion yuan with reference to BP's compensation practice. However, compensation "will be considered".
Regarding the pollution assessment related to the oil spill accident, the general manager of Health, Safety and Environmental Protection of ConocoPhillips said that it will be completed by a third-party company, but when it will be completed is "unknown".
ConocoPhillips held a press conference before apologizing, but did not mention specific data.
Georg Storaker said that the oil spill on Platform B was due to the activation of faults by water injection, which led to fluid seeping from the seabed through geological faults. By reducing the reservoir pressure, the fault has been closed, and no new crude oil leakage will occur, but there is still oil and gas seepage under the seabed.
In order to ensure that similar accidents do not happen again, ConocoPhillips plans to inject cement into well B-23, permanently plug it, drill another well near the high pressure on the reservoir, and then inject cement. "This measure is similar to giving a double insurance," explained Yanou, representative of corporate communication and corporate social responsibility of ConocoPhillips.
However, the State Oceanic Administration once accused ConocoPhillips of taking temporary measures to reduce reservoir pressure and set oil traps.
In addition, ConocoPhillips blocked the C-20 well in June to ensure that the oil spill on Platform C would not happen again. However, on August 20th, the North Sea Branch of the State Oceanic Administration accused nine new submarine leakage points near Platform C where the oil spill occurred. In this regard, Georg Storaker explained that the newly discovered spill point on Platform C is not the oil spill point, but the residual crude oil is leaking. Georg Storaker said that at present, there are about two liters of oil droplets leaking near Platform C every day, and these viscous oil droplets will be immediately collected by the oil boom.
ConocoPhillips also sent workers to patrol the Bohai coast and collected 56 oil samples. He said that the area of each oil sample is relatively small. After testing, most of them are inconsistent with the oil samples of Penglai 19-3 Oilfield, and only 5 oil samples are the same as or similar to Penglai 19-3 Oilfield.
At the beginning of 2065438+01August, fishermen from Laoting, Hebei Province entrusted Yingke Law Firm to defend their rights. However, ConocoPhillips and the State Oceanic Administration identified the Laoting oil sample and thought it was fuel oil, not from Penglai 19-3 oilfield. Georg Storaker said that ConocoPhillips has not received any claim for compensation. He said that if there is, ConocoPhillips will bear its due responsibility.
ConocoPhillips' attitude is still not open enough. Georg Storaker refused to answer questions such as how to share the responsibility with CNOOC and how to identify and evaluate the company name by a third party. ConocoPhillips also made no solemn apology. ConocoPhillips still only verbally apologized and did not mention any specific data about environmental pollution caused by oil spill.
ConocoPhillips apologized at the press conference: it can't be compared with BP, and it didn't receive the claim.
On the morning of August 24th, 20 1 1, ConocoPhillips held a press conference in Beijing on the Bohai Bay oil spill accident. Georg Storaker, president of China Co., Ltd. of ConocoPhillips, apologized for the accident again at the press conference, saying that the plugging of Platform C would be completed before August 3 1.
Georg Storaker said that he would be responsible for the accident. Platform B has been permanently blocked by decompression operation, and only a small amount of oil and gas remaining on the seabed has leaked out. On July 2, ConocoPhillips completed the installation of the oil collecting hood to recover the leaked residual oil and gas.
However, some participants commented that Georg Storaker's wording was too "public relations" and did not answer the question directly. In response to the question, "Will ConocoPhillips set up a fund to bear the responsibility for oil spill in Bohai Sea like BP?" ConocoPhillips said, "It can't be compared with BP. At present, ConocoPhillips has not received any claim for compensation. If so, compensation will be considered. "
Jia, a lawyer of Huacheng Law Firm, has filed a public interest lawsuit against CNOOC in his own name, demanding the establishment of a compensation fund of 654.38 billion yuan, but so far no case has been filed. Since then, Jia has continued to file an administrative lawsuit against the State Oceanic Administration with the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court.
"At present, the most important thing to stand up is actually the State Oceanic Administration, which should claim compensation from ConocoPhillips as a plaintiff." Some analysts pointed out that the State Oceanic Administration did not immediately notify the Penglai 19-3 oil spill accident, but delayed 1 month, and did not identify CNOOC as the responsible party. According to the current legal provisions of our country, there are many difficulties in bringing this kind of public interest litigation.
After more than two months' delay, ConocoPhillips China Company still failed to find the real cause of the oil spill, and only blamed it on "natural failure". At the press conference the day before yesterday, ConocoPhillips once again "sincerely apologized" to the public for the oil spill accident in the Bohai Sea, but avoided answering sensitive questions such as public welfare claims, improper disposal process and division of responsibilities with CNOOC. According to Georg Storaker, president of China Company of ConocoPhillips, the oil spill sources on platforms B and C have been permanently blocked. When a media reporter asked whether this so-called "permanent blockade" was approved by the State Oceanic Administration, the company avoided answering.
Will CNOOC meet with reality?
After the oil spill in Bohai Bay, CNOOC took the lead in becoming the "sinner" accused by many people, but in less than a week, "ConocoPhillips China" rose from behind the scenes and officially became the "protagonist". "Although ConocoPhillips is the operator that caused the oil spill, ConocoPhillips has a cooperative relationship with CNOOC. ConocoPhillips has a problem and CNOOC can't get away with it. " Jia, the protagonist of the public interest litigation claiming 100 billion yuan, and his assistant Guo Chengxi once revealed to the Yangcheng Evening News reporter that the object of 100 billion yuan also includes CNOOC.
"According to the agreement, the responsibility does lie with ConocoPhillips, but morally speaking, CNOOC has an unshirkable responsibility," Han Xiaoping, chief information officer of China Energy Network, once pointed out to reporters: "The oil field is state-owned and the state gives it to CNOOC, and CNOOC has found an American partner, ConocoPhillips, to set up a joint venture company, with CNOOC holding 5 1%. In this case, an oil spill occurred. Does CNOOC have no responsibility at all? "
At the press conference the day before yesterday, some media also asked ConocoPhillips executives, "According to the contract you signed with CNOOC, how do you determine CNOOC's responsibility?" ConocoPhillips said: "According to commercial terms, this cannot be said."
Although the responsibility has not been clearly defined, JPMorgan Chase reported yesterday that CNOOC's performance in the first half of the year reflected that the cost of its business was well controlled, but its business growth came from expensive mergers and acquisitions. It is expected that the market will find negative factors in the interim results in the future, downgrade the stock rating and maintain CNOOC's "underweight" investment rating? JPMorgan Chase believes that the "Bohai oil spill" makes CNOOC "not very optimistic".