State-owned Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is in­ves­ti­gat­ing yet an­oth­er oil spill—this time in Tarou­ba—even as Gov­ern­ment faces crit­i­cism over its han­dling of a sep­a­rate off­shore spill that af­fect­ed wa­ters near Venezuela.

In a state­ment is­sued to­day, Her­itage said it re­spond­ed on May 14 to sight­ings of oil in the vicin­i­ty of Rang­ie Nanan Dri­ve, Tarou­ba, and had al­ready be­gun clean-up op­er­a­tions.

The com­pa­ny said con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil was be­ing re­moved from the area while in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the source of the spill.