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Oil spills / Incident 007/2017
confirmed

Oil Spill at 3.5 nautical miles south of Usan FPSO

Incident 007/2017 · ESSO · 11 Sept 2017

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NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor · source recordLatest observation: 11 Sept 2017Retrieved: 2 Nov 2026
Incident date11 Sept 2017Source field: incidentdate
Estimated quantity0.2 bblAn estimate where the source supplies one
Quantity recoveredNot suppliedNot assumed to be zero
Evidence0Source attachment links

Incident location

3.51674, 7.41667
Oil spill

Source fields in plain language

CompanyESSO
ReportedNot supplied
StateNot supplied
LGANot supplied
ContaminantCrude oil
CauseOther:
FacilityNot supplied
HabitatOffshore
Estimated spill areaNot supplied
JIV dateNot supplied

Impact description supplied by source

The spill was reported to be Natural Seepage. It was also reported that an intervention vessel with ROV in Usan field conducting sub-sea installation work, ws immediately reassigned to aid in the sheen investigation. ROV was deployed to several sub-sea locations to investigate and investigation results confirmed natural hydrocarbon release from previously identified seabed seepage location.

Record timeline

Incident recorded

11 Sept 2017

Report date

Not supplied

Joint Investigation Visit

Not supplied

Spill stop date

Not supplied

Evidence & documents

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