Oil Spill at OBAMA WELL 9SS @ OBAMA

Incident 2016/SAR/034/052 · NAOC · 8 Feb 2016

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 8 Feb 2016Retrieved: 5 Sept 2026

Incident date08 Feb 2016Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity10.5 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recoveredNot suppliedNot assumed to be zero

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Incident location

4.63042, 6.27767

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported8 Feb 2016

StateBayelsa

LGANembe

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseEquipment failure

FacilityWellhead

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill areaNot supplied

JIV date10 Feb 2016

Impact description supplied by source

SPILL WAS AS A RESULT OF RUPTURE OF CHOKE BOX. CLEAN UP MEASURE WAS THE REPLACEMENT OF CHOKE VALVE; FACILITY SHUT DOWN

Record timeline

Incident recorded

8 Feb 2016

Report date

8 Feb 2016

Joint Investigation Visit

10 Feb 2016

Spill stop date

10 Feb 2016

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