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

Incident 2023/SAR/060 · NAOC · 11 Mar 2023

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 11 Mar 2023Retrieved: 5 Sept 2026

Incident date11 Mar 2023Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity0.17 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered0.17 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence0Source attachment links

Incident location

4.77567, 5.97739

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported11 Mar 2023

StateBayelsa

LGASouthern-Ijaw

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill area0.00016493

JIV date12 Mar 2023

Impact description supplied by source

THE CAUSE WAS AS A RESULT OF SABOTAGE SINCE THERE WAS A VISIBLE INSTALLATION OF 2'' FLANGE VALVE ON THE FACILITY AT 12 O'CLOCK POSITION. THE IMPACTED AREA WAS WITHIN COMPANY RIGHT OF WAY. VEGETATION WERE IMPACTED.

Record timeline

Incident recorded

11 Mar 2023

Report date

11 Mar 2023

Joint Investigation Visit

12 Mar 2023

Spill stop date

12 Mar 2023

Evidence & documents

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