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Brazil's Petrobras Transporte S.A. (Transpetro), the logistics unit of state-owned energy firm Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) S.A. (Petrobras), said that it was winding down its marine fuel cleanup operation on Sunday.

Bunker fuel was detected leaking from the Almirante Barroso marine terminal operated by Transpetro on Friday, which soiled four beaches along the coast of Sao Paulo state.

In a statement, the company said that the cleanup efforts at Cicadas in São Sebastião were wrapping up yesterday and that contingency teams were in place to monitor any waste brought in by the tide.

Following air surveillance carried out on Sunday morning, it was also agreed that the beaches of Deserta, Pontal da Cruz, Ponta do Lavapés and Olaria, had been cleaned up and no longer required monitoring.

On Saturday afternoon, oily globs of marine fuel were detected on the beaches of Capricórnio, Massaguaçu and Cocanha, in Caraguatatuba. Approximately one hundred workers were deployed to the sites to collect the fuel with work also due to be completed on Sunday.

Efforts at Ponta do Arpoador were continuing, the company said, with ten vessels in place working on site.

Alexandre Motta de Sousa, the harbour master at the port of Sao Sebastiao, was quoted as saying that the cleanup operation was wrapping up. "We were lucky because the climate helped contain the spread of the leak. It was a small spill, but we still don't have the calculations for the exact amount of fuel leaked," he told Reuters.

In an interview on Sunday, Eduardo Hipolito do Rego, Sao Sebastiao's environment secretary said: "There is still oil along the coast, covering rocks, vegetation and mangrove swamps. We're going to demand that Transpetro clean up these areas, too."

Hipolito claimed that Transpetro was "very unprepared" to respond to the spill, adding that workers were so slow to install containment buoys that he pitched in to help get the equipment to contain the leaked fuel out to sea. "There were too few people and a lack of training," Hipolito remarked.

Transpetro said it was investigating the cause of the leak at its terminal.