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The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has relocated its Kolo Creek-Soku gas pipeline across Kolo River in Bayelsa from the river surface to the river bed.


A visit to the Kolo Creek Oilfield operated by SPDC shows that the gas pipeline is no longer located on the water surface across the creek.

Oil workers were seen refilling dug out sand from the creek.

SPDC had in October 2016 passed the gas pipeline above the surface of the Kolo River, hampering navigation by fishing canoes, transport boats amongst others in the channel.

The development had triggered resistance amongst environmentalists and residents affected by the blockade which compelled SPDC to remove the pipeline from the water surface and buried it under the riverbed.

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), had in its advocacy urged SPDC to bury the pipeline to protect the economic interest of residents who used the creek as transport channel and fishing activities.

Reacting to the development, Head of Field Operations at ERA/FoEN, Mr Alagoa Morris, noted that it was a welcome development and applauded SPDC for taking steps to correct the anomaly.

“It is a positive outcome of our advocacy efforts and we commend SPDC for taking steps to come back to bury the pipeline under the river bed, it shows that we are partners to ensure that the oil industry is run in a sustainable manner.

“We always demand justice and fair play and preach the principle of ‘live and let live’, with the pipeline underneath the Kolo River, fishermen and community people who use the creek will operate while Shell carries on its business as well.

“We in the environmental rights movement are keen on complimenting and strengthening the efforts of the regulatory authorities. We are not trouble makers as some of the industry operators perceive us, we do not shout for nothing.

“When they do well we applaud and commend them, and this is a win-win situation for Shell and its host community. This action makes further protests which we planned unnecessary,” Morris said.

Also, an Environmental Scientist and development worker at Connected Development (CODE), Ms Benita Siloko, noted that she was worried about the adverse impact of crossing the pipeline on water surface when she noticed the pipeline in December 2016 during the Christmas holidays.

“I had observed the pipeline across the water surface and opted to take photographs because it looked abnormal for a channel where boats and canoes pass, I am pleasantly surprised that they have corrected the problem.

“Oil firms must understand that the welfare and economic interest of oil bearing communities count while executing their projects.

“As an environmentalist I feel happy at the development, and it shows that with the support provided by the civil society advocacy groups like ERA/FoEN our communities would be a better place to live in,” Siloko said.

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SOURCE: http://www.nairanaijanews.com/2017/01/shell-relocates-gas-pipeline-across.html

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Any way Na way

Some militants could be ocean-divers too. Hope they don't get that deep.

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That is a good one. The environment should not be destroyed all in the name of making money.

Hmmm

That is More river pollution.

SMH for Nigerian journalists. Not a single picture of the said river or a current picture of the environment in question. Just a generic off-the-net SPDC-related picture and then boom! Tory don set.

“We always demand justice and fair play and preach the principle of ‘live and let live’, with the pipeline underneath the Kolo River, fishermen and community people who use the creek will operate while Shell carries on its business as well."....A good development.

Shell leave our land ooo

Nice one
Away from the vandals

Una never start... The rise of the barren land!

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Burying it would only make it hard to detect and control an oil spill. The ppl who advocated for this are certainly not environmentalist- The best thing for d environment would be to find an alternative route for the pipeline.

Great. Make it less easy as a target for those stupid militants.

All of u that have sabotaged our economy in the name of frustrating Buhari, God will sabotage your lives. 2017 will be a year of misfortune for you all. Amen

Kolo....hmmm

Statsocial:
Burying it would only make it hard to detect and control an oil spill. The ppl who advocated for this are certainly not environmentalist- The best thing for d environment would be to find an alternative route for the pipeline.

did u read d post at all?

Cos if you did and understood , you will realize that taking the pipeline below the river surface is an alternative and has created commendable navigation for the see users or were you expecting them to run pipes through the sky?

haywire07:
did u read d post at all?

Cos if you did and understood , you will realize that taking the pipeline below the river surface is an alternative and has created commendable navigation for the see users

That is an economic reason not an environmental one. Environmentalist are advocates who aim to fight pollution

Statsocial:

That is an economic reason not an environmental one. Environmentalist are advocates who aim to fight pollution

Can you pls suggest a better channel .I'd like to learn

Okay

haywire07:
did u read d post at all?

Cos if you did and understood , you will realize that taking the pipeline below the river surface is an alternative and has created commendable navigation for the see users or were you expecting them to run pipes through the sky?

There is a reason why d indigenes of southern or northern Dakota in US insisted that they would never allow d US take a pipeline underneath their lake or any water body on their territory because there is still a risk of a spill but I was infact pointing out the error in the report that suggested that environmentalist cheered on the idea of burying a pipeline. An environmental activist won't even support oil exploration much less the passage of a pipeline under a water body which would wreak more havoc to that river if it ever spills.

They wan take our own resource develop the North meanwhile are own people are suffering.

all the MD's are from the North.

And they expect us to be happy?

Dem never see anything yet.

haywire07:


Can you pls suggest a better channel .I'd like to learn

As much as possible connect and lay ur pipelines across littoral surfaces. It may be longer but its better and less harmful to the locals. We know NDtans are traditionally into "fish-hunting" and a pollution in the water body would always deal an economic blow. By the way am a Swesterner so I'm not talking with a any bias in mind..

Horizontal directional drilling at work!

Statsocial:
Burying it would only make it hard to detect and control an oil spill. The ppl who advocated for this are certainly not environmentalist- The best thing for d environment would be to find an alternative route for the pipeline.

The soku pipeline conveys gas for the NLNG project

Statsocial:

As much as possible connect and lay ur pipelines across littoral surfaces. It may be longer but its better and less harmful to the locals. We know NDtans are traditionally into "fish-hunting" and a pollution in the water body would always deal an economic blow. By the way am a Swesterner so I'm not talking with a any bias in mind..

I understand your point . Theres possibilities of spillage in future-- but we don't know if its in the nearest future.
Chanelling those pipelines below the surface has proved more advantage than the other (e.g, the easy transport system alongside other river activities) . I hope you know that pipe chanelling also have its standard layout plan . technically, the littoral region must have carried its own "acceptable" number of pipes ,therefore, the next option was borne.

I dunno if u understand my perspective ?

Statsocial:

As much as possible connect and lay ur pipelines across littoral surfaces. It may be longer but its better and less harmful to the locals. We know NDtans are traditionally into "fish-hunting" and a pollution in the water body would always deal an economic blow. By the way am a Swesterner so I'm not talking with a any bias in mind..

Ori e pe. BTW, are you an environmentalist?

SmartMugu:
Some militants could be ocean-divers too. Hope they don't get that deep.

Lol. There's shark everywhere . My friend, an engineer at chevron recorded a video of a white shark, deep sea in a nigerdelta where he was working at sea.

BlackAfrican:
Great. Make it less easy as a target for those stupid militants.

All of u that have sabotaged our economy in the name of frustrating Buhari, God will sabotage your lives. 2017 will be a year of misfortune for you all. Amen

afonja the only thing you care is oil this ll give the boys more reasons to upgrade their bursting techniques...shell you what to do to end thus madness and save ud the headache of attacks left,back and front

Brooklynsouth:
afonja the only thing you care is oil this ll give the boys more reasons to upgrade their bursting techniques...shell you what to do to end thus madness and save ud the headache of attacks left,back and front

Who is this demented fool quoting me to type trash? Them send you come?

BlackAfrican:
Great. Make it less easy as a target for those stupid militants.

All of u that have sabotaged our economy in the name of frustrating Buhari, God will sabotage your lives. 2017 will be a year of misfortune for you all. Amen

Fish brain , b4 you start giving yourself head ache in the name of cursing read the topic and it's content again.Gas nit Oil