Oil spill incidents in Nigeria hit 3,700

Daily Independent

22 December 2010

Oil spill incidents in Nigeria hit 3,700

• NOSDRA orders oil firms to sit up, partners IMO, IPIECA

The oil spill incidents in Nigeria have hit 3,700 in mid-December 2010 even as the federal government at the weekend commenced the review of national action plan for oil spill preparedness and response.

Director, Department of Oil Spill Detection and Response, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Idris Musa, who gave the spill statistics at the national workshop on oil spill trajectory modeling and national dispersant use policy in Lagos, said the figure covered incidents from 2006.