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Oil spill from Agip’s Brass Terminal pollutes Atlantic Ocean

By on December 2, 2013

An oil spill from the Brass Oil Export Terminal, operated by oil giant, Agip, off Bayelsa Coastline, has discharged a yet to be ascertained volume of crude into the Atlantic ocean.

Henshaw Oguwike, the Chief Information Officer at National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), confirmed the development on Saturday.

“The incident occurred on Thursday and our team is already at the spill site, so, I can tell you that investigations have commenced and by the time our men come back from the site, more facts will be made available,” he said.

He said that the ongoing investigation would reveal the cause of the spill and the volume of crude discharged into the environment.

The NOSDRA spokesman said that the agency had also deployed its newly acquired oil spill response vessel to combat the spill.

The oil discharged from the incident had spread along the coastline to Odioama and other coastal communities in Bayelsa near the oil terminal.

Community sources in Odioama said that the waters along the Atlantic coastline were covered by a thick coat of oil which compelled them to suspend fishing.

“We started noticing oil on Friday and soon afterwards we saw oil workers attempting to contain the oil from spreading, but it was far more than they could handle so we had to pull out of fishing,” Doubra Samson, a resident said.

 

 

[Nigerian Telegraph]