A top official told the News reports that an oil spill off Nigeria’s southern coast reaches 780 acres (315 hectares).
This is the equivalent of over 500 football fields.
It comes after the explosion last Wednesday of the Trinity Spirit, an oil production vessel with a storage capacity of two million barrels, albeit it was not believed to be storing that much. The explosion killed three persons. Chemical dispersants have been used to lessen the damage to marine life in the area, according to Idris Musa, the chairman of Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (Nosdra), who spoke to some news source.
According to him, the spill occurred not far from where the Trinity Spirit had caught fire.
Mr. Musa responded, “Certainly, we can
Cynics would point out, however, that many prior Nigerian oil spills have not been cleaned up.
BBC (edited)
