The Moment
23 December 2011
THE Federal Government has been advised to set up independent ways of verifying the amounts of spewed crude oil disclosed by the oil companies, as a duty to communities in the Niger Delta, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) has demanded.
The call is coming on the heels of Shell' s forced shut down of its 200,000 barrel a day Bonga field after an alleged leak during a tanker loading caused what may be Nigeria ' s worst offshore spill in more than a decade.
Media reports indicated that an export line from the Bonga floating production, storage and offloading vessel caused the leak, which Shell estimated at below 40,000 barrels of crude in a statement issued immediately after the incident.
Director of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Dr. Idris Musa was quoted as saying the agency was aware of the incident and working hard with Shell to contain the spill.
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