State-owned oil com­pa­ny Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um says there is cur­rent­ly no ev­i­dence to sup­port the pres­ence of large amounts of hy­dro­car­bons in the sea, fol­low­ing an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged oil spill flagged by Venezuela.

The com­pa­ny said it launched a mul­ti-agency re­sponse af­ter re­ceiv­ing a re­port yes­ter­day of a po­ten­tial hy­dro­car­bon sight­ing orig­i­nat­ing with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s wa­ters.

In a me­dia re­lease, Her­itage stat­ed: “Cur­rent­ly, there is no ev­i­dence to sup­port the pres­ence of large amounts of hy­dro­car­bons in the sea.”