State profile

Oil Spills and Gas Flaring in Lagos State

Explore 84 oil spill records and 56 monthly state-level gas flare observations for Lagos, with source dates and limitations kept visible.

NOSDRA spills + Gas Flare Tracker state aggregationLatest observation: May 2026Retrieved: 1 Nov 2026

Matching spill records6PPMC (NPSC)

Dated records79Feb 2010–Jan 2026 · all dated state records

Selected flare month487.6K mscfMay 2026

Data on mapBoth5 visible source locations

Lagos environmental record summary

The SpillFlare profile for Lagos brings together two separate public datasets: NOSDRA oil spill incident records and monthly state-level estimates from the Nigeria Gas Flare Tracker. The profile currently contains 84 oil spill records dated from February 2010 to January 2026.

Companies appearing most often in the supplied Lagos spill records include PPMC (29), NPSC/NNPC (11), PPMC (NPSC) (6), TOTAL (6) and NPSC (5). These are record counts, not a finding of legal responsibility.

Browse the incident list below, compare the state's monthly flare estimates, or continue to the national oil spill tracker and Gas Flaring in Nigeria data explorer.

Oil spillGas flare

Oil spill records

Newest dated records first

28 Jun 2021

207030 · PPMC (NPSC)

IJEDODO LAGOS

Record 11 Sept 2020

198697 · PPMC (NPSC)

ODUGBORO

Record 23 Aug 2020

198519 · PPMC (NPSC)

IYANA ODO

Record 04 Apr 2020

198512 · PPMC (NPSC)

ABORU/ABESAN

Record 26 Mar 2020

198511 · PPMC (NPSC)

NAVAL BASE SATELLITE TOWN

Record 15 Mar 2020

197514 · PPMC (NPSC)

Abule-Ado

Record

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Monthly gas flare estimates for Lagos

All supplied months · state aggregation · MSCF

Oil spills and flare volumes describe different events and measurement systems. The map can show either dataset or both, but their values are never added into one impact score.