NOSDRA oil spill records · Nigeria

Nigeria Oil Spill Records and Tracker

Search public Nigerian oil spill records by location, state, operator and year. Examine reported incidents on the map, inspect the fields supplied for each record and follow stable record pages back to their source context.

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NOSDRA Oil Spill MonitorLatest observation: 26 Aug 2026Retrieved: 8 Sept 2026

Source records21,16221,126 indexable incident pages

Trusted date coverage1990–2026682 indexable records excluded from date analysis

States represented252,597 blank · 7 unrecognised state fields

Operator labels1115 indexable records without a company

21,162 source rows are available through the all-years explorer. 21,126 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 explorer

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National record overview

Nigeria oil spill records 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

2026180

2025512

20241,258

20231,550

20221,159

2021691

2020618

2019937

2018850

2017711

2016799

20151,084

Geographic coverage

Oil spill records by Nigerian state

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

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1Rivers State7,524 records
2Bayelsa State4,892 records
3Delta State2,896 records
4Akwa Ibom State1,619 records
5Imo State487 records
6Abia State253 records
7Edo State239 records
8Kaduna State162 records
9Federal Capital Territory State129 records
10Niger 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.

1NAOC8,687 records
2SPDC6,041 records
3MPN1,616 records
4CHEVRON908 records
5PPMC905 records
6NPDC428 records
7SEPLAT309 records
8Heritage301 records
9OANDO277 records
10Eroton E&P202 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 13,004 of 21,126 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 21,162 rows. 21,126 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 8 Sept 2026, and its latest supplied observation is 26 Aug 2026. Incident dates and retrieval dates describe different things.