Tackling oil spills in the Niger Delta.

 

Issue of oil spill in the Niger Delta

One of the various activities on display during the demonstration of capacity for tier 2 Oil spill containment and the quick response the challenge of O peel is as old as when crude oil was first discovered in 1958 at Oloribire, Bayelsa State.

 Nigerian have over the years developed the capacity to contain oil spills and their environmental consequences.

Then Ezeaku Emeka Cyrill said the tier 2 oil spill say that the operating companies cannot Durate and that's where they come in as a Cooperative of the industry help them respond to it and what we are doing today is a display of our equipment and the Personnel capacity to deal with that kind of incidents and we are here to show for operators who are members that there is no concern about our capability to deal with incidents of oil spills when they do happen.

The divisional manager Eastern operations claim Nigeria Associates Dr Etuk Akpan is upbeat about the success recorded in this new capability saying in these operations we covered all the segment of speed in-response management we covered the containment where we deployed the offshore High spring boom which is meant for containing the oil in the offshore environment and we also add the Green Tech schemer which after the containment of the oil using the Boom the schemer is deployed and then the oil is recovered from the water body.

Once we also have demonstrated the deployment one of our Best Equipment known as the Helling Schemer called self-propelled equipment it works on his own on the water and then pick up the oil on the water and then you can transfer it back to storage facility he said.

 Though there have been several attempts by the federal government and other critical stakeholders to check unsuccess oil speeds and pipeline vandalism both Trends still exist.

And other worker also said for us to be able to fight against the Oil spills we require a lot from the military and government security agencies, As a company we're doing our best with our internal security measures so in addition to this internal security measures we're also employing the government agencies that to the extent that is consistent with their mandate in working with us to be able to check the activities of these oil he also said.

 Nigeria should know a call has gone to the federal government to give more attention to the issues of oil and pipeline vandalism in order to mitigate the Colossal funds lost to them annually.