Oil Pollution in the Niger Delta

It is indisputable that Oil Operations in the Niger Delta in the areas of exploration and exploitation have had adverse environmental consequences on the region, and has remained a strategic source of oil pollution.[1] According to his long term commissioned monitoring program and the resulting accumulated data, Dessel, former head of Shell's Environmental Monitoring Unit in Nigeria, states that most serious environmental damage of oil exploration and production activities is caused by: Oil Spills, Gas Flares, Oily Waste, and Production/Drainage water.[2] The characteristic of this ...