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He said the spill was due to a “fault” in the fuel tanks of a vessel he identified as Flower of Sea “while it was docking in Jordanian territorial waters”.
“The continued emergence of oil spots is due to changes in the direction and speed of the wind,” Mr Al Majali said.
“Some spots have been seen on the shores of neighbouring countries,” he said.
The Marine Vessel Traffic tracking website shows the vessel's last position 12 days ago in the Gulf of Suez and heading to Aqaba.
It lists the vessel as a cargo ship designed to carry cars and other wheeled machines. It was built in 1987 and flies the flag of Palau, a small island country east of the Philippines.
A Jordanian businessmen who had just returned to Amman after kitesurfing in Aqaba said he felt the fuel oil on his feet but most of it appeared to have been blown by strong winds to Egypt.
“One can smell it in the water deep offshore,” he said, adding that the beaches were full.
Aqaba, which has a 190,000 population, is just north of Saudi Arabia and faces Israel and Egypt. It is Jordan’s only sea outlet.
A European resident of the Egyptian resort of Dahab, 100km from Aqaba across the Red Sea, said she has been seeing oil spots washed on to the shore.
Many swimmers who went into the water emerged with large black stains on their skin, she said.
“Volunteers are cleaning since a week here and they are not done,” she said. “Dahab is hardly the only place where it washed up and we don't know if the patch in Jordan is under control.”
“Nobody knows which unpopulated places along the Red Sea