Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed says it has re­moved all con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil linked to re­ports of the scent and sight­ings of oil in the vicin­i­ty of Rang­ie Nanan Dri­ve, Tarou­ba.

In a me­dia re­lease, the com­pa­ny said it con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions and mon­i­tor­ing af­ter the in­ci­dent was first re­port­ed.

Her­itage said the re­moval of the con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil was com­plet­ed as a mat­ter of ur­gency and that air qual­i­ty test­ing con­tin­ues to be car­ried out by the Caribbean In­dus­tri­al Re­search In­sti­tute as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure to en­sure safe lev­els are main­tained.