THE government is aiming to complete the mop-up of the oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress in Oriental Mindoro within a month, Malacañang said on Saturday.

"The DSV (dynamic support vessel) Fire Opal, which arrived at the Riviera Pier in Subic Bay Freeport Zone last Friday, will extract and transfer oily waste to a tanker, then dispose of the collected oil. Officials said the siphoning operations may last up to 30 days," Presidential Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said in a statement.

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