Oil Spill at 18" TEBIDABA/BRASS PIPELINE AT LASUKUGBENE

Incident 2016/SAR/073/111 · NAOC · 7 May 2016

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 7 May 2016Retrieved: 2 Nov 2026

Incident date07 May 2016Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity0.02 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered0 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.50822, 6.04394

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported7 May 2016

StateBayelsa

LGASouthern-Ijaw

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage / theft

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill areaNot supplied

JIV date7 May 2016

Impact description supplied by source

VANDALS USED A HACKSAW TO CUT OPEN THE CONE OF PREVIOUSLY REPAIRED POINT. THE SPILLED CRUDE OIL WAS MOPPED UP, NO SERIOUS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. NAOC ROW