Aqaba environment official denies oil leak at storage facility.

Aqaba, Sept. 27 (Petra) -- The government has dismissed as completely untrue a report by a local newspaper that an oil leak had occurred at the main oil storage facility at the Aqaba Port. It said Prime Minister Nader al Dahabi had followed up on the report and contacted concerned officials but found the report was wrong and irresponsible. Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority ASEZA Commissioner for Environment Affairs, Saleem Al Mughrabi, said a Norwegian firm reliable to international insurance companies carried out periodic inspections of the Jerash oil vessel, which acts as Jordan's strategic oil storage facility, to ensure safe storage procedures. He said there was no oil spill in the sea, noting that concerned authorities had made "precautionary" contacts between them before the Eid Al Fitr Holiday to ensure that the vessel was cleared of sand or other sediments at its bottom and no sea pollutants would leak to the sea.

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