Shell Nigeria fined US$5bn for Bonga oil spill

摘要

SHELL'S Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO), has been fined US$5bn for the spill at the Bonga oil field in December 2011. The director general of Nigeria's National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Peter Idabor, revealed the figure at a public hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment. According to the Vanguard newspaper, Idabor said that the fine was in line with what would be levied in other oil-producing countries. Shell says that some 40,000 bbl of oil leaked into the ocean offshore Nigeria from a floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel during a routine transfer of crude oil on 20 December 2011, in what's been called Nigeria's worst spill in over a decade.