Shell Launches Investigation Into Nigerian Oil Spill

Oil major Shell has launched an investigation into the source of a crude oil spill observed around water at the Forcados Terminal in Nigeria.

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) said the incident happened earlier this month.

Shell Refutes Amnesty International’s Cclaims on Ogoni Spills

 
Shell Petroleum Development Company, (SPDC), has said that Amnesty International did not carry out a thorough check before releasing the report that indicted it (Shell) for failing to clean up four oil spill sites in Ogoni land, which it had claimed to have cleaned up since 2011, The Guardian reports.

Shell’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli and Chairman of Bodo Mediation Initiative, Inemo Samiama, in an interaction with journalists in Port Harcourt noted that proper remediation was done on the Bomu manifold oil spill site and was certified by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), in 2011.

Weli explained however that some illegal oil bunkering activities in the area must have re-polluted the remediated site, insisting that the amnesty report was conflicting, especially, as it failed to produce the geographical data base of the polluted area. He also said that as part of its contributions towards remediating the spill sites, the firm was determined and ready to go back and carry out the cleanup exercise but called on government to put up measures towards addressing the attitude of people in the community who prefer pecuniary benefits to the clean up exercise. 

 

Source: Energy Mix Report News