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Looks like flaring on offshore oil and gas platforms in Africa didn’t take a holiday this year. As you can see by this MODIS Aqua 7-2-1 image from 12/23/2012, there was lots and lots of flaring activity going on off the coast of Nigeria. And not to be outdone, this area where we’ve seen flaring […]
We’ve been routinely watching the coast of Nigeria for oil spills (like the recent ExxonMobil offshore pipeline spill that’s affected 20 miles of coastline) and other incidents. Lately we’ve noticed what appears to be something burning far offshore, approximately 75 miles southwest of Brass on the Niger Delta. We went back as far as July […]
Two large slicks were spotted on the same image of the Nigerian coast (5.75°N, 4.45°W) (5.75°N, 4.45°E). One slick (we’re calling it SkyTruth Unknown 001, or ST_UNK 001) was featured in a March 27th blog post that compiled a time-series of images of the constant leak three miles off the Coast of Molume. Thirty miles farther […]
Ever since Shell’s oil spill from their FPSO in the Bonga field, we’ve been monitoring offshore Nigeria for oil pollution. Radar images of this area are often riddled with narrow ribbons and small blobs where something oily may be floating on the surface of the water. Teri noticed a suspicious slick on an image taken […]
Chevron reports the fire in the ocean off Nigeria, blazing since their Funiwa-1A gas exploration well blowout occurred on January 16, finally went out on March 2. It’s likely that the well “bridged over” and plugged itself, shutting off the flow of natural gas that had been feeding the fire, something every driller hopes for […]