Afrigather About 3,000 barrels of crude oil have been misplaced to the November 15 oil spill from the offshore Egina Floating Manufacturing Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel of TotalEnergies.
The FPSO, positioned 130 kilometres off the Atlantic shoreline from Port Harcourt, can produce 200,000 barrels of crude each day and may retailer 2.3 million barrels on board.
The director-general of the Nationwide Oil Spills Detection and Response Company (NOSDRA), Idris Musa, informed journalists on Sunday that the spill’s cleanup was nonetheless ongoing.
He added that NOSDRA and TotalEnergies didn’t spare any effort in tackling the air pollution to minimise its environmental influence, a improvement that saved the spilt crude from reaching the shoreline.
“The spill has not hit the shoreline due to the effectiveness of the spill’s contingency plan we deployed,’’ he stated.
Mr Musa defined that NOSDRA deployed high-level personnel and activated the Nationwide Oil Spills Contingency Plan to include the spill.
“The spill was not a minor one; it was the response technique put in place that resulted in restricted influence, and we’ve been tracing and monitoring the oil slick and supervising response efforts.
“NOSDRA deployed personnel led by a director to the positioning, and we’ve remained on the spill web site in addition to granting the requisite approvals to hasten the response,’’ he stated.
Mr Musa defined that TotalEnergies took steps that made the response swift and efficient, including that different oil corporations assisted within the response.
He pressured that spill cleanup required a collaborative response from oil trade stakeholders, which, on this case, deployed plane and no less than 5 vessels within the utility of 15,000 litres of liquids to scrub the waters.
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