National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) say they are jointly investigating an oil leak from Ship's Clough Creek-Tebidaba trunkline at Azuzuama community, in Bayelsa.
NOSDRA
announced on its official twitter handle that preliminary findings during a
Joint Investigative Visit (JIV) to the spill site that the oil leakage was
traced to a ruptured point on the pipeline.
The
spill agency said that the spread of the oil has been contained using plastic
booms while recovery of the leaked oil was underway as it was yet to determine
the volume of leaked crude into the environment.
NOSDRA
indicated that the facility was shut down to pave way for the JIV and repair of
the ruptured pipeline.
The
shutdown of the facility allays safety concerns and fears of a reocurence of an
explosion which occurred five years ago along the pipeline in the area during a
similar investigation and repairwork.
It
will be recalled that a blast occured in the pipeline on July 20, 2015 which
took the life of 13 people including one regulatory official from NOSDRA and
another from Bayelsa Ministry of Environment.
A
spokesman at Eni, the Italian parent company of NOAC also confirmed the oil
leak incident in an e-mail response on Friday.
"Regarding
your query about a reported rupture at Azuzuama, the matter is still being
investigated; we will share the outcome of the assessment as soon as it will be
available," Eni stated.
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