Shell Nigeria Finds 3rd-Party Leak During Bongo Cleanup

As Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company works to complete clean up of an oil leak at its Bongo facility offshore Nigeria, company officials said Monday they believe more oil leaked from another vessel in the area, which has complicated its’ efforts to clear out oil from its spill.

SNEPCo said it will perform onshore and offshore clean up of the the oil leaked from a "third party" vessel, which has been spotted on short areas of the coastline.

The company provided local and international journalists Monday with a fly over of the area off the coast of Nigeria to show how the leaked oil as largely dispersed.

Shell Nigeria’s country chair Mutiu Sunmonu said it is important for the media and public to see the company’s clean up efforts, but also "how third party activity has made the operation more challenging."

Company officials said Monday that it had removed 30,000 barrels of crude oil from the water surface.

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Bayelsa Communities Raise Alarm Over Shell’s Bonga Field Spill

Indigenes and fishermen of Bayelsa State communities on the Atlantic fringe, yesterday, raised alarm over the gradual spread of crude oil supposedly from Shell Petroleum Development Company, Bonga oil field into their rivers, waterways and other parts of the state.

Similarly, fears that Shell’s Bonga field oil spill might affect some coastal communities in Delta State, have been confirmed with crude oil suspected to have floated from Bonga spreading across the Beniboye, Odimodi, Ogulagha and Forcados rivers in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.

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People of these predominantly fishing communities said thick crude slick had been sighted on the Bisangbene River, the Fish camp 2 at the Vanish Island and the St. Nicholas cove along the Atlantic shoreline close to Odioma on the Atlantic fringe of Ekeremor and Brass councils.

Chairman of Community Development Committee, CDC, of Bisangbene community, Mr. Goodnews Gereghewei, yesterday, in a telephone interview with Vanguard from the coastal enclave, said the development had forced their people (fishermen) to withdraw from the river because of the massive spill and fear of possible fire outbreak from their use of local lamp in the course of fishing at night.

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