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Evaluation of on-shore oil spill remediation operations in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

International Journal of Development and Management Review

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Title Evaluation of on-shore oil spill remediation operations in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
 
Creator Eni, DD
Okpiliya, FE
 
Subject Oil spillage, environmental degradation, oil-spill remediation, Niger-Delta Region, sustainable environmental management.
 
Description Most oil producing regions in the world today are experiencing serious hydrocarbon spillages on land and water. The problem is more prevalent in developing countries where greater premium is always placed on the oil money than on the environment and the inhabitants of oil producing regions. The study is an attempt to unravel the effectiveness of clean-up exercises undertaken by oil companies each time oil spillage occurs. The results show that two years after the programme the efficiency level of the remediation exercise is very low as evidenced by the heavy presence of microbiological accumulation in the soil. Thus, there is need for more thoroughness in the clean-up exercise. Monitoring agencies should also be more efficient while respective oil companies need to be more responsive so as to avert the attendant violent protests from the affected communities.
 
Publisher Directorate of General Studies, FUT, Owerri
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2011-06-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/66992
10.4314/ijdmr.v6i1.66992
 
Source International Journal of Development and Management Review; Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/66992/55109
 
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