The Shell Petroleum Growth Firm of Nigeria on Friday introduced that it has shut crude feeds into the 16-inch Nun River-Kolo Creek crude trunkline.
The Information Company of Nigeria stories that the event follows an oil leak on the pipeline at Obololi group, a coastal group alongside the River Nun within the Southern Ijaw Native Authorities Space in Bayelsa State.
Director-Basic, Nationwide Oil Spills Detection and Response Company, Mr Chukuwemka Woke, had advised NAN that the spill occurred on February 16 and was reported on February 17.
The shutdown was introduced in a press release by a spokesman for SPDC, Mr Michael Adande, in response to the response request by NAN after the spill.
In keeping with the assertion, the shutdown had stopped the leak whereas remediation efforts had been ongoing to include the unfold of the crude and its impression on the surroundings.
Adande mentioned, “The Shell Petroleum Growth Firm of Nigeria Restricted (SPDC), operator of the SPDC Joint Enterprise (SPDC JV), confirms that its Oil Spill Response Group has recognized a leak from one of many SPDC JV property situated within the Obololi group, Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State.
“The group instantly remoted the road and suspended manufacturing into the road.
“The regulatory authorities and different stakeholders have been notified. Plan to conduct a regulator-led Joint Investigation Go to (JIV), to find out the trigger and impression of the spill is ongoing.”
Though the SPDC didn’t specify the amount of oil manufacturing affected by the shutdown, the 16-inch pipeline evacuates oil produced from numerous oil fields inside Bayelsa swamps and feeds the SPDC’s manifold in Kolo.
NAN recollects that the NOSDRA DG, on Thursday, mentioned that the reason for the leak and estimated quantity discharged was but to be decided as a result of the pipeline was beneath the river.
The regulator mentioned that it has really helpful a diversion of the river to a brief dam to offer entry to the joint investigating group to the leak level for examination.
NAN recalled that following the contamination of the Nun River, Chief Goal Segibo, Chairman of Southern Ijaw LGA, who earlier visited the impacted Obololi group, pledged to offer another water supply for the folks.
(NAN)
