Oil Spill at 18'' TEBIDABA/BRASS PIPELINE @ MBASIKIRI

Incident 2016/SAR/077/120 · NAOC · 28 May 2016

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 28 May 2016Retrieved: 2 Nov 2026

Incident date28 May 2016Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity40 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recoveredNot suppliedNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.40539, 6.26169

Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyNAOC

Reported28 May 2016

StateBayelsa

LGANembe

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage / theft

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill area0.00548500

JIV date30 May 2016

Impact description supplied by source

VANDALS USED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE TO BLAST THE FACILITY. AJOINING WATER BODY NAOC RIGHT OF WAY. CLEANUP METHOD USED: SECTIONAL REPLACEMENT AND THE FACILITY WAS SHUT DOWN