Oil spills in the last 10 years

Kunle Kalejaye 03 September 2015, Sweetcrude, Lagos – Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta area is characterised by a prevalence of both old and brand new oil spills, over 9, 343 incidents within the last few 10 year, based on formal documents.

This translates to about almost a thousand spills yearly, the highest rate of spills globally.

Formal files from nationwide Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, covering the duration, 2006 and 2015, suggest that there were over 5, 000 spillage sites from over 9, 000 spills.

A few of the spill sites, in accordance with the documents, include Taylor Creek 2SS flowline between Ayamabele/Kalaba communities, Adibawa really 16T wellhead, solitary Point Mooring 1 offshore drifting hose 13, 6Taylor Creek 2Ss flowline near TK 1T well location, 8Nkpoku-Bomu Trans-niger pipeline right-of-way B, 28 Trans-niger pipeline at Ekporo, 18 Tebidaba/Brass pipeline at Oyeregbene; 24 Nembe Creek Trunkline, NCTL, at Adamakri and Osie65 flowline wellhead place Oshie.

Additionally included are 18 Tebidaba/Brass pipeline at Oyeregbene, 28″ Nkpogu-Bomu Pipeline-Kporgor Tai LGA River State, 18 Tebidaba/Brass pipeline at Oyeregbene 16 and a whole lot more.

French oil giant Total may be the newest organization becoming struck by oil spill in the united kingdom because the business a week ago reported an event at its Obagi-Rumuekpe export line in streams State, which it blamed on sabotage.

The company did not state the quantity of oil spilled but maintained it was losing around 100, 000 drums of oil a day because of the closure of this export line following spill.

Shell ended up being the other day additionally in the development over a 2011 incident at its Bonga center, which spilled 40, 000 drums of oil into the environment, as well as which nationwide Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has actually ordered the multinational oil organization to pay for N3.6 billion on affected communities.

Commenting on the spill record as revealed by NOSDRA, Professor John Onwuteaka for the Department of Applied and Environmental Biology on Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, said that lack of any honestly reported access to spillage internet sites or spills predating 2006 boosts the assumption of numerous undocumented sites waiting is detected‎.

The over 9, 000 spill situations as reported by NOSDRA, based on environmentalist, would cause Nigeria dropping nine ‎states which makes within the oil wealthy region, including their arable lands and water sources as time goes by if drastic actions are not taken up to end the menace of spills in the region.

Underlining the risks of oil spillage, environmentalist present during the current 4th Oil Spill meeting 2015, organised by Kaku Professional Engineers ‎in Lagos, urged the us government to declare circumstances of disaster on oil spills in addition to affected Niger Delta area. In addition they urged government to commence immediate cleanup of all of the spill websites, stressing that it is a silent killer of Nigeria’s future‎.