Tag: SPDC
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Pipeline vandalism: Bayelsa community accuses Shell of involvement, company denies
The people of Ikarama in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa and the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) have differed on causes of frequent oil spills in the area. SPDC operates several oilfields within the Biseni axis of Yenagoa council area which is notorious for frequent oil spills. The community has accused the…
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Shell’s oil spill pollutes over 113 hectares in Bayelsa
Leakage from an oilfield operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Aghoro community in Bayelsa has discharged some 1,114 barrels of crude oil into the environment. The leakage has adversely affected the fishing vocation of residents who had withdrawn from fishing to pave way for clean up. The resulting oil spill impacted and polluted…
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SPDC undertakes clean-up of Bayelsa, Delta communities
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) says it is undertaking the clean–up of areas recently affected by oil spillage in two Niger/Delta communities. The company’s Media Relations Manager, Mr Bamidele Odugbesan, said on Sunday in Lagos, the exercise had reached 95 per cent completion. Odugbesan stated that the affected areas were in…
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Oil spill: NGO seeks medical aid to Bayelsa community
The Oil and Gas Producing Areas Enlightenment and Empowerment Initiative (OGPAEEI), an NGO, has called for urgent medical assistant and supply of relief materials to Aghoro Community affected by oil spillage in Bayelsa. Recall that the community, Aghoro 1 and 2, were affected by a spillage from the oilfield of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)…
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Poisonous gas from SPDC ruptured pipe poses health risks in Delta state
Poisonous gas purportedly from Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) ruptured gas pipeline is presently wreaking havoc in Odimodi, a federated community in Burutu one constituency of Delta state. TheNewsGuru gathers Odimodi federated communities have been devastated by oil pollution allegedly occasioned by SPDC pipeline leakage causing emission of poisonous gas into the air. Today, at…
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Niger Delta: Vandalism worries SPDC
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has urged youths in the oil producing Niger Delta region to embrace peace and end vandalisation of oil installations in the area. Mr Igo Weli, General Manager, External Relations, SPDC, made the appeal on Thursday in Port Harcourt, during the “Youths Summit for Land East Hub Host Communities’’ programme…
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Oil: how Buhari’s men cause trouble for Nigeria
Mrs Edith Douglas The recent comprehensive disclosure in the media of how a new tension is mounting in the Niger Delta over President Muhammadu Buhari’s revocation of three oil blocks based on misleading advice from the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, is the latest example of how…