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: 5 Sept 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

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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.