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The Mobil Nigeria oil spill occurred in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, on 12 January 1998, when a pipeline in Mobil's Idoho platform burst underwater, sending 40,000 barrels of oil spilling into the ocean. [1] Drifting westwards, the oil covered 850 km of Nigerian coastline, contaminating waters and negatively impacting fishing in the region.
This is not the only remediation project in Ogoniland that is alleged to have been botched. In 2015, Shell agreed to a £55m settlement for a clean-up after two catastrophic spills in 2008 from ...
The Nigerian government estimates there were over 7,000 spills, large and small, between 1970 and 2000, according to the BBC. That is approximately 300 spills a year, and some spills have been leaking for years. [4] Vast swathes of the Delta have been seen covered with tar and stagnant lakes of crude due to oil spills of the past. [4]
A new oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river, upending livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured ...
It resulted in an oil slick 185 km (115 mi) long off the Nigerian coast. It was probably the worst spill in the area for a decade. Oil spills have the potential to cause great damage to the environment, for example water pollution, which reduces fishing yields and agriculture, which is one of Nigeria's largest industries. [4]
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Located in the Niger Delta, the ruptured pipeline was owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and served as a link between an oil refinery in the southeastern town of Warri, 340 kilometres (210 mi) southeast of Lagos, and Kaduna, 610 kilometres (380 mi) north of Warri. [4]
On 15 May 2008 a pipeline explosion occurred in the community of Ijegun, a suburb north of Lagos, Nigeria. The explosion took place after a bulldozer struck an oil pipeline . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Lagos police have stated that the explosion appears to be an accident, and not the work of thieves, as in past pipeline explosions near Lagos . [ 3 ]