While there is no concrete data on how many oil spills have occurred in Nigeria, researchers believe "an estimated 13 million barrels (1.5 million tons) of crude oil have been spilled since 1958 ...

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — Shell Nigeria says it has closed a 6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) oil pipeline to repair leaks from oil theft. Shell recently threatened to close the Nembe Creek Trunk Line ...

Shell <RDSa.L> shut its Imo River oil pipeline in Nigeria on October 31 due to damage caused by thieves and deferred 25,000 barrels per day (bpd) of production, the company's local unit said ...

Shell has denied responsibility for oil spills in Nigeria. “Oil is being stolen on an industrial scale in the Niger Delta,” Shell said in a statement carried by Bloomberg.

By then, about 40,000 barrels of oil had escaped into the Atlantic Ocean, according to an English High Court evaluation, making the December 2011 incident one of Nigeria’s worst spills in a decade.

Royal Dutch Shell last year experienced a sharp rise in the number of oil spills caused by pipeline theft in Nigeria, which the company said were the result of larger output and higher oil prices ...

FILE - A member of Shell staff on the Bonga offshore oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel off the coast of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011.

Shell said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion. (Photo by Sunday Alamba, AP, file) ...

In Nigeria, the oil giant Shell is being accused of covering up devastating oil spills by blaming them on sabotage by local militants in the Niger Delta. Amnesty International says Shell has ...