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An oil spill in the fishing village of Kegbara-Dere, Rivers State on the Niger Delta. In 2016 Shell paid US$80 million for the spill [1] Petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta has led to many environmental issues. [2] [3] The delta covers 20,000 km 2 (7,700 sq mi) within wetlands, formed primarily by sediment deposition.
The Niger Delta is the twelfth largest province in the world by known oil and gas resources. [4] The Niger Delta Basin produces around 2 million barrels of oil per day. The entire system is predicted to contain 34.5 billion barrels of oil and 94 trillion feet 3 of natural gas. This area is still very heavily explored by oil companies today.
The Niger Delta Basin is an extensional rift basin where rifting occurred from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.Cretaceous fracture zones, expressed as trenches and ridges, control the tectonic framework of the delta and separate the margin into individual sub-basins, which form the boundary faults of the Cretaceous Benue-Abakaliki trough.
A primary cause of this is the effect crude oil spills have on crops in the given area. According to a Stanford University article, Oil Pollution in the Niger Delta, [42] there has been an estimation of 240,000 barrels of oil being spilled
The volume of oil spilled has not been determined, but activists have published images of polluted farmland, water surfaces blighted The post Oil spill makes environmental problems worse in Niger ...
The Niger Delta is a very densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. [3] The area was the British Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 until 1893, when it was expanded and became the Niger Coast Protectorate .
Nigeria is the second largest oil and gas producer in Africa (after Angola). [1] Crude oil from the Niger Delta basin comes in two types: light, and comparatively heavy – the lighter has around 36 of API gravity while the heavier has 20–25 of API gravity. Both types are paraffinic and low in Sulphur. [2]
As a state in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Bayelsa State's economy is dominated by the petroleum industry. [20] [21] The state is the site of Oloibiri Oilfield, where oil was first discovered in Nigeria, and as of 2015 the state was estimated to produce 30-40% of the country's oil.