Oil Spill at 10 CLOUGH CREEK/TEBIDABA PIPELINE @ GBARAUN

Incident 2015/SAR/231/371 · NAOC · 23 Sept 2015

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 23 Sept 2015Retrieved: 5 Sept 2026

Incident date23 Sept 2015Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity31 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered12 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.78481, 5.77053

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported23 Sept 2015

StateBayelsa

LGASouthern-Ijaw

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseEquipment failure

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill areaNot supplied

JIV date30 Sept 2015

Impact description supplied by source

THE TEAM COULD NOT VISUALIZE THE POINT BUT HAD TO RELY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE DIVERS. THE DIVERS USED HAND FEEL TO CONFIRM THAT IT WAS A FAILURE OF THE PIPELINE.