Oil Spill at 12" Imo river Trunk line at Owaza

Incident 2012_855048 · SPDC · 19 Aug 2012

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 19 Aug 2012Retrieved: 6 Sept 2026

Incident date19 Aug 2012Source field: incidentdate

Estimated quantity87.7 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one

Quantity recovered22 bblNot assumed to be zero

Evidence0Source attachment links

Incident location

4.98008, 7.17572

Oil spill

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CompanySPDC

ReportedNot supplied

StateAbia

LGAUKWA WEST

ContaminantCrude oil

CauseSabotage

FacilityNot supplied

HabitatLa

Estimated spill area0.0026

JIV date21 Aug 2012

Record timeline

Incident recorded

19 Aug 2012

Report date

Not supplied

Joint Investigation Visit

21 Aug 2012

Spill stop date

Not supplied

Evidence & documents

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