{{Chad has suspended all operations of a Chinese state-run oil firm for causing environmental damage, Chad’s oil minister has told media.}}<\/p>\n
Djerassem Le Bemadjiel said the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) was to blame for an oil spill in several sites near a forest.<\/p>\n
He said the situation was “intolerable” but did not make it clear how long the suspension would last.<\/p>\n
The company also runs an oil refinery in the capital, N’Djamena.<\/p>\n
Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003 with the completion of a $4bn (\u00a32.6bn) pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n
{{‘Very serious’}}<\/p>\n
The oil minister took the decision after officials visited Koudalwa, some 200km (125 miles) south of N’Djamena, where CNPC was exploring for oil.<\/p>\n
“It’s a very serious situation, it’s intolerable,” Mr Le Bemadjiel told media describing how trees had been destroyed.<\/p>\n
He said such violations were a crime, adding: “In the oil sector you don’t do this.”<\/p>\n
The minister told media that the Chinese exploration unit had dug huge trenches and let oil flow into them, and then had it removed by local workers without protective gear.<\/p>\n
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