[Oil Spillage] NOSDRA Fines Mobil Nigeria N10million

The National Oil Spill De­tection and Response Agency, NOSDRA has slammed a N10 million fine on Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, MPNU for oil spill.

The oil com­pany was accused of non-compliance with the nation’s environmental laws de­spite its written reminder notify­ing them of the sanctions imposed by NOSDRA for failure to effect clean up of the oil spill incident at Qua Iboe Terminal.

NOSDRA said: “It would be recalled that the Director General/ CE of NOSDRA Sir Peter Idabor wrote a reminder letter to Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited di­recting them to pay the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10, 000,000) levied against the company for sundry violation of the provisions of the Agency’s enabling Act and it’s Oil Spill Recovery, Clean Up, Remediation and Damage Assessment Regulations 2011.”

“Consequently, NOSDRA has directed the oil company to pay the said fines or face the legal machinery available to the Agency to com­pel the company to comply with the directive,” it added.