Nigerian oil (29 photos) Bashny.Net

For more than 50 years of oil and natural gas in the Niger Delta promise wealth and income of a few privileged individuals but also for all the other inhabitants of the region, as well as to the environment are a burden. Nigeria - takes the eighth place in the world in terms of crude oil production, but the country remains one of the poorest - about 70% 150 million population lives below the poverty line. The environment is also paying a high price for oil. About 500 million gallons of oil poured into the delta of the river - a year is virtually equal to the volume of leakage during the disaster of the tanker "Exxon Valdez." Several specific factors have also made a negative contribution to the development of a natural disaster: poor construction and maintenance, poor adjustment, militant attacks and theft of oil, not to mention the government's instability and abuse of power. Judging by WikiLeaks, the company «Shell Oil» put their employees in all the major ministries in Nigeria, having access to important government decisions.

1. Oil flows past the sunken boats in the bay near the illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland, at Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta region on March 24. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)



2. Woman with seeds tapioca sushivshimisya fire on gas, near Warri April 20. (Lionel Healing / AFP / Getty Images)



3. Children float by oil pipeline at their home in the settlement of Andoni in Rivers State on April 12. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



4. Aerial view of the outdated processing plant leaking gasoline and oil in mangrove swamps near Warri. (Google / GeoEye)



5. The background to the Nigerian oil well in the Nan River in the Niger Delta region October 26, 2006. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



6. A woman dries clothes on the oil pipelines near Port Harcourt Okrikans October 7, 2006.



7. Aerial view of oil platform «Total» in Ameneme, 35 kilometers from Port Harcourt, April 14, 2009. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



8. candle for burning gas at an oil platform in Ameneme off the coast of Nigeria. Incineration - the usual process nefteindustrii, where it is used to burn excess gas that can not be used immediately, or carry. Excessive flaring dangerous for the environment, since during this process evaporates a lot of toxic and greenhouse gases, only exacerbates the problem of health and climate change. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



9. Nigerian oil companies burn ranks second in the world, the volume of natural gas by the combustion process. In 2008 in Nigeria burned about 15, 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas, accounting for 70% of the total amount of gas collected in the same year. The combustion process is so vast that the Niger Delta appears highlighted in this photo from NASA satellite. (Image from a 2003 NASA map by Robert Simmon, based on data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Line Scanner, processed by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center)



10. refinery with two towers to burn natural gas near Ogbogvu, Nigeria. Photos from the satellite. (Google / GeoEye)



11. The burning of natural gas in the Italian oil refinery in Abama, Bayelsa State. (Reuters / Tom Ashby)



12. The Nigerian child on a background of flames from the burning of gas at the plant «Royal Dutch Shell» in the south-western part of the Niger Delta. (Reuters / George Esiri RSS)



13. The illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland at Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta region. The so-called "oil thieves" were in Africa's largest oil industry always, they pierce pipelines and steal from the Nigerian and international oil companies millions of dollars in oil every year. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



14. Here is an illegal oil refinery in the settlement of the fire. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



15. View of the illegal refinery, cut and stained barrels of oil land in Ogoniland. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



16. Columns of smoke from illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



17. Used for pumping crude oil canoes scattered across the bay in Ogoniland. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



18. The operator removes the mangroves destroyed by the oil spill in the Bay Bodo June 20, 2010. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)



19. Aerial view of the oil leak in the bays Ogoni community. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



20. A man shows the leakage of oil in the river in the region of the fire. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



21. A young man in a canoe with a hose for pumping oil from an oil puddle on the river at the Bodo villages in the region of the fire. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



22. Aerial view of the village on the island near the site of the oil spill in the region of the fire. (Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye)



23. A child from an abandoned oil well leak crude oil in Kegbara Dere, Ogoni territory. (Lionel Healing / AFP / Getty Images)



24. Part of the oil plant in Bonny, Nigeria - the main point of export of crude oil from the Niger Delta region. (Google / GeoEye)



25. Oil and gas terminal company «Royal Dutch Shell» on Bonny Island. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



26. Local residents from the piping system of subsidiaries «Royal Dutch Shell» Bodo City. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)



27. Fire on two wooden ships with crude oil, the military confiscated from oil thieves in the area Andoni in Rivers State on April 12. Special squad from different military units confiscated large amounts of crude oil, which burned on two wooden boats that thieves used for pumping. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



28. Oil spill in the waters of the Niger Delta, in the swamps of Bodo, where oil companies «Shell Petroleum Development Company» in the Nigerian state of Rivers. (Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP / Getty Images)



29. The woman on a background of smoke after the fire on the pipeline, which began two weeks ago, near the town of Kegbara Dere, 55 km from Port Harcourt. (AP Photo / Schalk van Zuydam)