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Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) is a 97 kilometre, 150,000 barrels of oil per day pipeline constructed by Royal Dutch Shell plc and situated in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. [3] "The Trunk Line is one of Nigeria's major oil transportation arteries that evacuate crude from the Niger Delta to the Atlantic coast for export."
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is a decentralised militant group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. [1] [2] MEND's actions – including sabotage, theft, property destruction, guerrilla warfare, and kidnapping – are part of the broader conflict in the Niger Delta and reduced Nigeria's oil production by 33% between 2006-07.
The next day, the group reportedly blew up a major oil pipeline operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in Isoko [41] On 12 August, the group warned that it would blow up more oil installations in the future. [42] On 19 August, the group was reported to have blown up two pipelines belonging to NPDC in Delta State. [43]
The history of oil exploration in Nigeria goes back to 1903, when the Nigerian Bitumen Corporation conducted exploratory work in the country. At the onset of World War I, the firm's operations were stopped. Due to lack of technological and financial resources of small oil companies, large and strong other oil companies took over the exploration ...
Oloibiri Oilfield was discovered on Sunday 15 January 1956 by Shell Darcy. [10] It was the first commercial oil discovery in Nigeria; this discovery ended 50 years of unsuccessful oil exploration in the country by various international oil companies and launched Nigeria into the limelight of the Petro-State.
In September 2008, MEND released a statement proclaiming that their militants had launched an "oil war" throughout the Niger Delta against both, pipelines and oil-production facilities, and the Nigerian soldiers that protect them. Both MEND and the Nigerian Government claim to have inflicted heavy casualties on one another. [21]
Mundra–Panipat crude oil pipeline; Motihari-Amlekhgunj Oil Pipeline; Paradip-Haldia-Barauni crude oil pipeline; PS Pipeline [1] Samsun–Ceyhan Pipeline; Sino-Burma pipelines; South–North Pipeline Korea; Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a.k.a. Tapline (defunct) Trans-Israel pipeline; Trans-Korea Pipeline; Rojkov-Goto Pipeline; Trans-Caspian Oil ...
Part IV of Nigeria's Oil Pipelines Act (1990) addresses the laws of compensation for any damage done to the Nigerian community; oil companies are legally obligated by the judicial court to repay the country for harming their infrastructure and environment, so long as these affected regions are occupied by local people. [45]