Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited has disassociated itself from final Thursday’s recent oil spill, which occurred within the Ibeno Local Government Area of the State.
Over 27 coastal communities had been stated to have been badly affected within the recent oil spill which the communities believed was spilled by ExxonMobil.
The village head of Mkpanah, Mobil host group, Denis Essenem, whereas receiving the Director General of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, Chukwuemeka Woke, attributed the spill to ExxonMobil. Woke was on an operational go to to the communities.
Essenem claimed that ExxonMobil is the one main oil firm that operates on excessive sea whereas others are simply marginal fields upland.
Essenem stated, “We don’t have any major oil companies than ExxonMobil, the other ones are marginal fields, the upland and if there are spillages the spill will go into the farm lands, but ExxonMobil that operates on high sea with very high current, the breezes will push the oil, the current will drive the oil, they will keep giving us flimsy excuses, lying to us that it’s not their oil.”
But ExxonMobil in a press release by its Regional Communications Manager – Africa, Ogechukwu Udeagha, in Uyo, stated on Tuesday that the organisation has not suffered any disruption from any of its services.
It added {that a} preliminary report from the federal government company didn’t determine any Mobil facility as a possible supply.
“There has been no release of oil from any of our facilities. We are not the only operator in the area. A preliminary government agency inspection report on the alleged incident did not identify any of our facilities as a potential source. Protection of the environment and our communities remain key priorities in our operations,” the assertion stated.
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