Production on the Hibernia platform has been shutdown due to an oil spill for the second time in a month.
Aerial surveillance of the area on Sunday morning estimated the size of the slick to be about four nautical miles by one nautical mile and approximately 2,200 litres of oil.
C-NLOPB says they were notified of the incident around 9 p.m. on Saturday night.
HMDC says incident occurred after a power outage caused the deluge system on the Hibernia platform to activate, causing drains to overflow.
They say there are no safety issues to personnel.
There are vessels on-site participating in spill response as well as monitoring wildlife.
Lastest Incident the Third Oil Spill in Less than a Year
This is the third oil spill in the province’s offshore within the last year, the second in the last month from Hibernia.
Last November, production was halted on Husky Energy’s SeaRose FPSO after a faulty flowline connector caused the release of 250,000 litres of oil into the ocean.
Work was stopped in the area for quite some time. Husky resumed production at its southern drill centre, near where the spill ocurred, in June.
And just last month, another spill from the Hibernia Platform released 12,000 litres of oil into the ocean.
Production on the Hibernia platform from that spill resumed just last week.
