Oil Spill at 14" Okordia-Rumuekpe Trunk Line @ Ikata. Ahoda East. R/S.

Incident 2524811 · SPDC · 7 Dec 2019

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 7 Dec 2019Retrieved: 1 Nov 2026

Incident date07 Dec 2019Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity85 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered65 bblNot assumed to be zero

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Incident location

5.03461, 6.60321

Oil spill

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CompanySPDC

Reported8 Dec 2019

StateRivers

LGAAhoada-East

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage / theft

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSw,Ss

Estimated spill areaNot supplied

JIV date9 Dec 2019

Impact description supplied by source

Oil spill on and outside RoW when the line was tapped by unknown person. The swamp area of impact was heavily impacted but recovery Team was timely at site. Impact out of RoW way minimal while the sloppy RoW helped in directing the spill to a recovery point.