Niger Delta oil spills

General Manager, External Relations for the company, Mr. Igo Weli, who said this, reiterated his company's commitment to swift response to oil spill incidents as much as access and security conditions permit teams to mobilise and deploy to spill sites to investigate, clean up and remediate such areas.

“The companies often ignore reports of oil spills for months on end — on one occasion Eni took more than a year to respond. The Niger Delta is one of the most polluted places on earth and it begs belief that the companies responsible are still displaying this level of negligence,” said Mark Dummett, ...

A research project by AI had exposed evidence of serious negligence by oil giants, Shell and Eni, whose approach to oil spills in the Niger Delta is ... Furthermore, Nigeria Agip Oil Company achieved significant results in the Niger Delta with the reduction in volumes of oil spill in 2017 by more that 50 per ...

It said the evidence of the negligence was exposed by a research project, adding that the oil giants' “irresponsible approach to oil spills in the Niger Delta is exacerbating an environmental crisis.” “Shell and Eni claim they are doing everything they can to prevent oil spills but Decoders' research suggests ...

A groundbreaking research project by Amnesty International has exposed evidence of serious negligence by oil giants Shell and Eni, whose irresponsible approach to oil spills in the Niger Delta is exacerbating an environmental crisis. Through the Decoders network, an innovative platform developed by ...

Oil giants Eni and Shell have been accused of serious negligence in responding to oil spills in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The accusation from Amnesty International on Friday, March 16, 2018, described the oil giants' actions as “serious negligence.” In a report by Reuters, Amnesty International ...

Nigeria was on Friday urged to re-open investigations into 89 oil spills in its southern delta region, after claims that Shell and ENI misreported the causes. Rights group Amnesty International said there were “reasonable doubts” about how the spills happened, suggesting corrosion rather than oil theft were ...

The recent judgment by the UK Appeal Court on the dispute between Shell and two Niger Delta communities underscores the need for people of the ... In May 2015, UK solicitors, Leigh Day, brought oil spill claims in a UK court against the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on behalf of the ...

The Executive Director of Environmental Right Action, (ERA), Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, has said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will not address issues of the Niger Delta region. Dr Ojo spoke at a one-day Civil Society and Host Communities workshop for the Southsouth, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.

The Executive Director, Environmental Right Action, (ERA), Dr. Godwin Ojo, says the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) would not address the lingering crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta, noting that halt of oil spills and gas flaring, the root causes of the agitation in the zone, were not captured in the piece of ...

The National Coalition on Gas Flaring and Oil Spill in the Niger Delta (NACGOND), a coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on environmental issues, has observed that the amendment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Act 2006 has no provision for ...

While both parties have come up with reactions, the case turned out to be a defining moment in the anals of oil spills in Nigeria – it, again, brought oil spills and efforts to fight the scourge in Nigeria back to the fore. To Shell, the Niger Delta is still being rattled by high scale crude oil theft, pipeline sabotage ...

Osagie Okunbor, Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria has said that over 90% of oil spills in Nigeria are as a result of theft and sabotage to oil facilities. ... amounts in pipeline replacements and assets integrity, adding that oil spillage is the biggest issue confronting the company in the Niger Delta region.

According to him, Shell had over the years invested huge amount in pipeline replacements and assets integrity, adding that oil spill is the biggest issue confronting the company in the Niger Delta region. The Chairman said that pipeline vandalism was the main reason Nigeria elapsed into recession in 2016 ...

There are indications that oil spillage, occasioned by sabotage and other factors have dropped in the Niger Delta by 27.3 percent. Many oil companies, including International Oil Companies, IOCs and indigenous companies did not disclose their oil spill data. But a compilation of 2017 data obtained by ...

The Niger Delta is still being rattled by high scale crude oil theft, pipeline sabotage and illegal refining, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) ... Last year, a judge in London made a ruling which meant that any compensation actions by two Nigerian communities affected by oil spills would have to ...

Both Bille and Ogale are areas heavily impacted by crude oil theft, pipeline sabotage and illegal refining, which remain the main sources of pollution across the Niger Delta. Litigation in courts unfamiliar with the law and realities on the ground ultimately does not address the issue of criminal interference in ...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that Nigerian communities cannot pursue Royal Dutch Shell in UK courts over oil spills in the oil-rich Niger Delta, upholding a previous High Court ruling that UK-based multinational companies cannot be tried in England for the actions of their subsidiaries ...

Figures from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) indicate that between 1997 and 2001, Nigeria recorded a total number 2,097 oil spills incidences amounting to 1,947,600 barrels of crude oil while thousands of barrels of oil have been spilt into the environment through pipeline and tanks in the ...