Oil Spill at 10'' CLOUGH CREEK/TEBIDABA PIPELINE AT GBARAUN

Incident 2020/SAR/092 · NAOC · 16 Dec 2020

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 16 Dec 2020Retrieved: 1 Nov 2026

Incident date16 Dec 2020Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity5.18 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered0.18 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.76550, 5.79989

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported16 Dec 2020

StateBayelsa

LGASouthern-Ijaw

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage / theft

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill area0.00187898

JIV date23 Dec 2020

Impact description supplied by source

THE SPILL WAS DUE TO SABOTAGE SINCE THERE WAS A VISIBLE 2'' VALVE INSTALLATION ON THE PIPELINE AT 12 O' CLOCK POSITION. THE SPILL WAS OUTSIDE COMPANY RIGHT OF WAY. VEGETATION WERE IMPACTED.