Oil Spill at 14'' OGBOINBIRI/TEBIDABA PIPELINE AT KOROKOROSEI

Incident 2022/SAR/017/050 · NAOC · 25 Mar 2022

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 25 Mar 2022Retrieved: 4 Nov 2026

Incident date25 Mar 2022Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity5 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered1 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.73847, 5.97519

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported25 Mar 2022

StateBayelsa

LGASouthern-Ijaw

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage / theft

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill area0.00052545

JIV date18 Apr 2022

Impact description supplied by source

THE SPILL WAS AS A RESULT OF SABOTAGE SINCE THERE WAS A VISIBLE 3'' FLANGE VALVE INSTALLATION ON THE PIPELINE AT 12 O' CLOCK POSITION. THE SPILL WAS OUTSIDE COMPANY RIGHT OF WAY. VEGETATION WERE IMPACTED.