By Jamel Adel.
Tripoli, 20 April 2014:
The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) has denied social media reports that there was an leakage . . .[restrict]of toxic hydrogen sulfide gas at Marsa Al-Hariga in Tobruk while the first tanker since the blockade there was lifted, the Aegean Dignity, was being loaded with oil.
“It is not true,” AGOCO spokesperson Ahmed Al-Erabi told the Libya Herald. “The loading was done normally and to the usual standards.”
Hydrogen sulfide is present in sour crude oil, such as from Saudi Arabia, but Libyan crude is generally sweet with extremely low hydrogen sulfide levels. [/restrict]
