Oil Spill at 8'' NIMBE SOUTH-OBAMA FLOWLINE @ SABATORU

Incident 2015/SAR/241/387 · NAOC · 8 Oct 2015

NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 8 Oct 2015Retrieved: 6 Sept 2026

Incident date08 Oct 2015Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity4 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered0.63 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence2Source attachment links

Incident location

4.60389, 6.33567

Oil spill

CompanyNAOC

Reported8 Oct 2015

StateBayelsa

LGANembe

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage

FacilityPipeline

HabitatSwamp

Estimated spill area0.00065000

JIV date17 Dec 2016

THE LEAK OCCURRED DUE TO EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE (INDUCED CORROSION) ON THE FACILITY @ 7 O'CLOCK POSITION.