The International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) has committed to facilitate the offloading of the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar 1, Governor JC Rahman Nava said on Tuesday.
The IOPC, which is a worldwide group of oil refiners, will be the one to look for a company that could siphon the oil from Solar 1, as well as pay for it, Nava added.
“They know what is to be done,” he stressed. Petron Corporation, which chartered the ill-fated tanker to transport two million liters of oil to Zamboanga when it sank in August 11, is a member of the IOPC.