The siphoning operations that are part of the oil spill cleanup’s final stage in Oriental Mindoro will be completed by June 19, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Saturday. The extraction of the remaining industrial fuel oil from the sunken MT Princess Empress would be 100 percent done after nine days, PCG spokesperson Rear Admiral Armand Balilo said at the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City. “‘Yung kanilang operations, very efficient at naniniwala ako na by June 19 ay 100 percent na ‘yung oil na makukuha doon sa mga tangke (The operations are very efficient and I am convinced that 100 percent of the oil would be recovered from the tanks by June 19),” he said.

Oil spill cleanup ops likely finished by June 19 – PCG. (2023, June 12). SunStar Pampanga, p. 3.