Panic in Bayelsa Community as ‘Deadly NNPC Gas Leak Threatens Lives’

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa There is rising panic in Okpoama kingdom of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State following a deadly gas leak from the oil well belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the NNPC. The gas leakage, which occured along the Bendick+Kiri axis of the kingdom has been spewing oil and gas into the environment from a well's Christmas tree. The oil well, located in OML 66 and known in the records as ‘Kurogbagba 1,’ was said to have been leaking for the past five days spreading oil into the creeks. A threaning hissing sound, from the intense pressure forcing the oil and gas out of the wellhead, could be heard from over a kilometre and has forced fishermen out of their settlement for fear of fire outbreak. The head of the fishermen in Bendick Kiri, Mr Monday Okon, who hails from Akwa Ibom State, confirmed that everybody has left because of the smell of the gas and oil and also for fear of fire outbreak. A former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Tarinyo Akono, who visited the site on Monday October 23, 2023, described the well blow out as intense and extremely dangerous for the people and the environment. Read more: https://phmundial.com/panic-in-bayelsa-community-as-deadly-nnpc-gas-leak-threatens-lives/

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