Tag: oil spill

Between January and July, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, lost an average of 437,000 barrels of oil a day to ...

A community in Bayelsa State is suing Shell over May 17, 2018 oil leak from the oil firm’s Trans Ramos ...

A PREMIUM TIMES review of the November oil spill in Bayelsa State, one of the worst in recent years, finds ...

“There is nowhere in the world an oil spill of such magnitude will occur and the legislators would be silent.”

Governor Douye Diri claimed that about two million barrels of Bonny Light crude stream had polluted the Santa Barbra River ...

“The Plan will be a community-driven, community-implemented, community-monitored and community-evaluated project.”

“The governor is gravely concerned that if the high volume of crude being spilled continuously is not stopped immediately, it ...

The Environment Ministry is working with local NGOs to try containing the damage, L’Express reported.

An average of five oil spills were recorded daily in Nigeria.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo flagged off Ogoni cleanup in June 2016.

SPDC acknowledged the spills and expressed regret over the incidents, an official said.

Ruptured pipes had discharged 180 barrels of crude into the environment.

"Shell and Eni claim they are doing everything they can to prevent oil spills but Decoders’ research suggests otherwise."

Ten months after the official flag-off by the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the clean-up project is yet to start.

AGIP said it 'operated responsibly' after the spill.

The community said the oil company offered N4.5 million compensation for the spill.

The German geologist said an environmental study found "astonishingly high" pollution levels.

“We are SPDC’s immediate host. Seibou Well II is on my land and the creeks so polluted are in our ...

The government said the spillage contravened relevant sections of the constitution.

The High Court ruled on Thursday that Royal Dutch Shell cannot be held responsible for the actions of its Nigerian ...

Repair of a pipeline destroyed by Niger Delta Avengers may have caused the spill.

The incident caused some of the residents to troop out to scoop the flowing crude oil.

“Villagers who rely on fishing along the river for survival can longer do so..."

The soldier was escorting workers to an oil spill site.

The youth demand N1.17 billion be paid for a 2011 spillage.