Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is re­spond­ing to what it be­lieves is an act of sab­o­tage fol­low­ing a hy­dro­car­bon leak dis­cov­ered along GT Road, Bar­rack­pore to­day. The com­pa­ny said pre­lim­i­nary as­sess­ments in­di­cate a sec­tion of pipeline ap­prox­i­mate­ly six feet in length had been de­tached trig­ger­ing spill re­sponse mea­sures af­ter ac­ti­vat­ing its In­ci­dent Com­mand Sys­tem.

Emer­gency teams de­ployed vac­u­um trucks and heavy ma­chin­ery to re­cov­er spilled prod­uct while con­tain­ment booms were placed in a near­by wa­ter­course. The com­pa­ny has en­gaged res­i­dents and stake­hold­ers to pro­vide up­dates and sup­port while con­duct­ing air qual­i­ty mon­i­tor­ing as a pre­cau­tion. Her­itage strong­ly con­demned sab­o­tage acts warn­ing they threat­en pub­lic safe­ty the en­vi­ron­ment and na­tion­al en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture. The com­pa­ny said it has in­creased se­cu­ri­ty and mon­i­tor­ing of its as­sets fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent.

The mat­ter has been re­ferred to law en­force­ment and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing. Reg­u­la­to­ry agen­cies in­clud­ing the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty have been no­ti­fied. Her­itage reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to full re­me­di­a­tion and con­tin­ued up­dates as the re­sponse pro­gress­es.