SPDC Dismisses 45,000 Barrel Oil Spill Report, As NOSDRA Admits Error

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
Limited (SPDC) has dismissed a report that it spilled 45,000 barrels of oil from an incident at its facility in Nun River in Angiama area of Bayelsa State in March, 2020.
A statement, last Monday, signed by the SPDC’s Media Relations Manager, Bamidele Odugbesan, said, “The outcome of the government regulator-led Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) into the spill incident of 27th March, 2020, was published in a report that is available on the publicly accessible SPDC spill website, and the volume of oil spilled from the regrettable operational incident was 43 barrels”.
According to Odugbesan, the JIV spill report, including photographs of the incident site, conducted on 28th March, 2020, was signed off by the regulator, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), and representatives of the community, the Bayelsa State Government and SPDC.
Responding to an enquiry on its twitter handle, NOSDRA had erroneously said that 45,000 barrels of oil were spilled from the wellhead leak, but the agency admitted the error in a subsequent tweet where it claimed that the actual volume of oil spilled should be 45 barrels.