Field Report : Agip’s Riser 15a Lingering Oil Spill At Fantuo: A case of Negative Environmental practice.

Date of current incident: 2nd July 2023 [Sunday]. Date of field visit by ERA/FoEN: 12/07/2023 [Wednesday]. INTRODUCTION: At exactly 12:22 pm on 5th July 2023 [ the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria [ERA/FoEN] received an SMS from a volunteer about ‘’ A very serious oil spill at an Agip pipeline at Egenkiri near […]
ODIMODI CRY OUT OVER GAS LEAKAGE FROM AGIP FACILITY

Location: Odimodi Community, Burutu LGA, Delta State. Estimated Discovery of Leakage: 3 Months Ago Site Visited By ERA/FoEN: 5th of July, 2023 1.0 Introduction Odimodi is an Ijaw riverine community located in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. The community has an estimated population of about 5,000 people. It is the headquarters of the Iduwini […]
Another Equipment Failure Oil Spill From Agip’s Idu Well 11

Spill Official [JIV] Ref No: 2021/ LAR/028/058 Location: Egbebiri community environment, Biseni Kingdom. GPS Coordinates: Elev: 14m, N05°16.323’, E006°32.986’ [from previous visit] Occupation: Fishing and farming main occupation. Date of Spill: 7th /8th May, 2021 Date of ERA/FoEN site visit: 9th May, 2021 [Sunday] Report by: Alagoa Morris INTRODUCTION: The African Charter on Human […]
Shell conceals spill from facility

Highlight: Spill has spread to impact Keme-Ebiama and other communities downstream. Location: From Ogboinbiri axis, Southern Ijaw local Government Area, Bayelsa State. Occupation: Fishing and farming are the means of livelihood of the people. Report by: Alagoa Morris INTRODUCTION: When information reached ERA/FoEN that the people of Keme-Ebiama were experiencing a major oil spill and […]
Minister’s Unannounced visit to Agip Base in Bayelsa a Mere Publicity Stunt

Location: Nigerian Agip Oil Company [NAOC] Base, Twon-Brass, Brass local government area. Report by: Alagoa Morris INTRODUCTION: Agip has several facilities in Bayelsa State. They include oil wells, pipelines, manifolds and flowstations. Most of the crude oil from the company’s swamp area are channeled to Twon- Brass, a community on the fringes of the Atlantic […]
Again Shell’s Okordia Manifold Spews Crude Oil Into the Environment.

Location: Okordia Manifold at Ikarama, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. Report by: Alagoa Morris The occurrence of oil spills in Ikarama community environment every now and then cannot be over emphasized. The spills from facilities belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC] and Nigerian Agip Oil Company [NAOC] happens either within the immediate […]
Enugu communities apprehensive about planned resuscitation of moribund coal mines

Location: Okpara, Onyeama, Iva Valley, Ogbete in Enugu North and South Local Government Areas of Enugu State. Dates of Visit: 10th and 11th February 2014 Report by: Philip Jakpor & Akinola Tosin BACKGROUND Coal generated lots of revenue for Nigeria between the years 1916 and 1970 when it was one of Nigeria’s major revenue earners. […]
Shell’s Bonga spill reaches two communities in Ekeremor

Reports of further spread of the slick from Shell’s Bonga facility to more communities necessitated a visit by ERA/FoEN field monitors to two of the affected communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, along the Dodo River. The communities are Bilabiri and Amatu. The Dodo River empties into the Atlantic Ocean and the […]
Shell’s Bonga spill spreads to Odioama

Location: Odioama Community, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State Date of Visit: 26 December 2011 By Alagoa Morris INTRODUCTION Following an alert from fisherfolks in Odioma community on the discovery of oil slick suspected to be from Shell’s Bonga Field, ERA/FoEN monitors visited the Atlantic shoreline in the company of some of the […]