Citing Kazakhstan’s Emergency Situation Ministry, the news agency reported, “Oil spills [have] been found near the mouths of five wells on the coast at the Yugo-Zapadnoye Tazhigali oilfield. The wells are located 1,000 metres from the shoreline. The diameters of the oil spills around the mouths of four wells are between two and three metres; as for the fifth well, oil is pumping out from it.”

“Three wells are leaking at the Pribrezhnoye oilfield; two of them are in the sea. The oil slick on the water surface is 500 metres long and five metres wide. There is another oil slick at the Pustynnoye oilfield. The coordinates of the wells and the volume of oil spilled are being found out and estimated respectively,” added the Ministry.