NOSDRA oil spill records · Nigeria

Oil Spills in Nigeria

Explore reported oil spills in Nigeria through SpillFlare's searchable public records. Track recent incidents, search by location, state, operator and year, and examine historical records using the national oil spill map, explorer and archive.

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NOSDRA Oil Spill MonitorLatest observation: 20 Oct 2026Retrieved: 1 Nov 2026

Source records21,10821,072 indexable incident pages

Trusted date coverage1990–2026682 indexable records excluded from date analysis

States represented252,598 blank · 7 unrecognised state fields

Operator labels1115 indexable records without a company

21,108 source rows are available through the all-years explorer. 21,072 contain an incident date, location or company and therefore have indexable detail pages; 36 context-free rows are excluded from the sitemap. Record counts do not measure spill volume, environmental severity or legal responsibility.

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Nigeria oil spill map and explorer

Filter the incident database without losing records that have missing quantities or unusable coordinates.

National record overview

Oil spills in Nigeria by year

Counts use only trustworthy incident dates. Reporting practices and source coverage can affect comparisons between years.

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Dated incident records

1990–2026 · malformed and internally inconsistent dates excluded

Latest annual counts

Oil spills in 2026195

Oil spills in 2025475

Oil spills in 20241,234

Oil spills in 20231,542

Oil spills in 20221,159

Oil spills in 2021691

Oil spills in 2020618

Oil spills in 2019937

Oil spills in 2018850

Oil spills in 2017711

Oil spills in 2016799

Oil spills in 20151,084

Geographic coverage

Oil spill records in Nigeria by state

States with the most records in the current SpillFlare dataset—not a ranking of pollution or environmental harm.

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1Oil spills in Rivers State7,527 records
2Oil spills in Bayelsa State4,818 records
3Oil spills in Delta State2,909 records
4Oil spills in Akwa Ibom State1,622 records
5Oil spills in Imo State487 records
6Oil spills in Abia State252 records
7Oil spills in Edo State240 records
8Oil spills in Kaduna State162 records
9Oil spills in Federal Capital Territory State129 records
10Oil spills in Niger State86 records

Source operator field

Operators named most often in the records

Company names are preserved as supplied. Frequency does not establish causation, fault or legal liability.

1NAOC oil spill records8,658 records
2SPDC oil spill records6,041 records
3MPN oil spill records1,619 records
4CHEVRON oil spill records908 records
5PPMC oil spill records905 records
6NPDC oil spill records428 records
7SEPLAT oil spill records310 records
8Heritage oil spill records302 records
9OANDO oil spill records233 records
10Eroton E&P oil spill records202 records

What does an oil spill record mean?

An entry represents a reported incident in the underlying public source. Records differ in completeness: incident and reporting dates may differ, and fields such as location, cause or estimated quantity can be absent. An operator name is presented as supplied and does not by itself establish legal responsibility. SpillFlare organises source-backed data for public use; it does not independently verify every incident.

Estimated quantity is usable in 12,950 of 21,072 indexable records, so this landing page does not present an incomplete national volume total.

Where the Nigeria oil spill data comes from

Oil-spill records come from the public NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor. SpillFlare preserves source fields, excludes untrustworthy dates from time-based summaries and labels missing values instead of treating them as zero. State totals use the explicit source state field and can include a record in more than one state where the source supplies multiple state codes.

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Questions about oil spills in Nigeria

How many oil spill records are available for Nigeria?

The current source snapshot contains 21,108 rows. 21,072 have enough incident context for indexable detail pages; the remaining 36 stay available in the explorer but are excluded from the sitemap. These counts are not measures of environmental severity.

Which Nigerian states have the most oil spill records?

Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta have the largest record counts in the current SpillFlare dataset. Record frequency should not be interpreted as a ranking of pollution or environmental harm.

Can I search Nigerian oil spill records by company?

Yes. The explorer can filter the 111 operator or company labels represented in the source records. A named operator is a source field, not by itself a finding of legal responsibility.

Can I search oil spills by year?

Yes. Trustworthy incident dates in the current dataset cover 1990–2026. Records without a trustworthy incident date remain searchable through other fields but do not enter yearly comparisons.

Where does SpillFlare's oil spill data come from?

The records come from the public NOSDRA Oil Spill Monitor dataset. SpillFlare reorganises those source fields for search, mapping and comparison while keeping missing values visible.

Does a record prove that a company was responsible for a spill?

No. The presence of a company or operator name describes the field supplied in the record. It should not automatically be read as a legal finding of liability or responsibility.

How current is the oil spill database?

The source snapshot was retrieved 1 Nov 2026, and its latest supplied observation is 20 Oct 2026. Incident dates and retrieval dates describe different things.