The Director-General of the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency, Idris Musa, made this known.
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OML 29 oil block is operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company, an indigenous oil firm.
The was revealed by the management of AEEPCO in a statement by its Spokesperson Mathew Ndianabasi, on Wednesday.
This was stated in a world press conference and protest march by leaders of the community. They accused the oil exploration company of economic strangulation, ecological destruction, contract racketeering and corporate wickedness.
Musa disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
Idris Musa, Director-General, NOSDRA, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Yenagoa.
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency says findings on the dead fishes on the Atlantic coastline indicated high levels of toxicity caused by toxic wastes discharge.
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency says it has concluded investigations on oil spill from Well 13 at Angiama in Bayelsa State.
The Nembe Creek Trunk Line resumed normal operations on March 7 following the plugging of a leak which necessitated the shutdown of the facility on February 28.
The predicament that played out on March 1, 2019 in Bayelsa State is indeed a disaster like the others before it in the different parts of the country.
National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency says it has commenced investigations into the explosion at Nembe Creek Oilfields within OML 29 operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration.
Shell, operator of the Bonga oil field where the spill occurred, had approached the courts to challenge the powers of National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency to impose fines on it.
The Executive Director of CISLAC, Malam Auwal Ibrahim, made the call during a courtesy visit to Peter Idabor, the Director-General, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency in Abuja on Friday.
Dr. Idris Musa, the Director of Oil Fields Assessment in NOSDRA, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Sunday