Petroleum spills and the communicative response from petroleum agencies and companies: Impact assessment from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Ukhurebor, Kingsley E.; Ngonso, Blessed F.; Egielewa, Peter E.; Cirella, Giuseppe T.; Akinsehinde, Bamikole O.; Balogune, Vincent A.

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2023.101331

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“…Figure 6: GasF activities in various nations using the sea and land surface temperature radiometer show the topmost twenty nations during 2017 [55]. 9…”

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“…At present, one of the foremost difficulties confronting humanity is the environmental impact resulting from gas flaring (GasF) [1,2]; heavy metals [3][4][5]; dyes [6][7][8][9][10]; particulate matters [11]; petroleum or oil spills, toxic gases, and agricultural, domestic, and industrial chemicals/composites [12,13]; and other human-induced conditions [14]. These emissions are ordinarily found in the atmospheric environment (air), terrestrial environment (soil/land), and aquatic environment (water), and if not appropriately checked, their ensuing effects are generally disadvantageous [15,16].…”

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Environmental Influence of Gas Flaring: Perspective from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Ukhurebor,

Aigbe,

Onyancha

et al. 2024

Geofluids

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Gas flaring (GasF) is an important aspect of the combustion mechanisms in the burning of related, undesirable, or surplus fluids (gases in particular) that are released during the ordinary or unexpected overpressuring process in several industrial activities, specifically in the petroleum resource (PTR) industries. It is also one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions which cause climate change (CMC). In addition to the generation of noise and heat, it makes substantial adjacent areas uninhabitable and, hence, causes detrimental consequences to the entire ecosystem as well as waste energy and results in economic losses. Reducing GasF is a critical issue due to its ensuing complications; consequently, there is a tenacious need to measure GasF via the study of its composition, distribution, and capacity, as well as the utilization of appropriate GasF recovery/removal procedures. The present review study will, thus, attempt to assess the impacts of GasF on the environment vis-à-vis the possible nexus between GasF/CMC using the perspective of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria which is rich in PTR, with relevant information drawn from existing publications. The roles of government, policymakers, and relevant stakeholders as well as suggestions and recommendations that will assist in the extenuation approaches and technologies of the influence of GasF on the environment are also discussed.

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“…Figure 6: GasF activities in various nations using the sea and land surface temperature radiometer show the topmost twenty nations during 2017 [55]. 9…”

Section: Thermal Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Influence of Gas Flaring: Perspective from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Ukhurebor,

Aigbe,

Onyancha

et al. 2024

Geofluids

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“…While direct person-to-person contact is a major component of many debiasing and conflict resolution initiatives (Bruneau et al, 2022;Mousa, 2020;Paluck et al, 2019;Paolini et al, 2018), it can be logistically challenging for conflicting groups to accomplish these interactions, and they are frequently restricted to individuals who are already sufficiently motivated to meet "the enemy" in person (Bruneau et al, 2022). Technology offers substitutes for interpersonal communication ( (Ukhurebor et al, 2023;Hussaini et al, 2023;Asanga et al, 2023). Technology has been utilized, for instance, to enable computer-mediated or virtual contact among members of the rival group (Bruneau et al, 2022;Bruneau et al, 2021;Taylor et al, 2021) and to offer "parasocial" or vicarious contact (Bruneau et al, 2022); the latter involves exposing people to live or recorded audio or video media that contains information about the outgroup and its viewpoints (also known as a "media intervention").…”

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Conflicts and the dilemma of media intervention: An educational information management perspective

Egielewa,

Ngonso,

Ukhurebor

et al. 2024

J. Infras. Policy. Dev.

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Conflicts are inevitable in any human community, despite the fact that they are never desirable. One of the characteristics of the contemporary world is conflict. Different parties participate in disputes (individuals, organizations, and states). When disputes arise, interventionist methods are put into action. Conflicts arise in a variety of ways, such as disagreement, rage, quarrelling, hatred, destruction, killing, or war, because human requirements are diverse. Conflict takes many different shapes, and so do interventions. Individuals, groups (both local and foreign), and governments can all intervene in a conflict. The media and its functions are up for debate among those who mediate disputes. Can the media be seen as intervening in a dispute, or are they merely performing their mandated duties? The diversity of opinions is what drives conversations in peace journalism. In addition, peace journalism promotes media engagement and intervention in conflict situations in order to lessen and end conflict. Media intervention, according to some critics, is not objective journalism because those in charge of educational information management and journalists are not expected to make decisions about the news; rather, they should just tell it as they see it. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the idea of conflict, the stages of conflict development, interventions in conflicts, and the contentious position of the media in conflicts from an educational information management perspective. Hence, this paper will contribute to the role of educational information management via social media and other new media platforms, which have occasionally been used to hold governments responsible, unite people in protest of violence, plan relief operations, empower people, dissipate tensions via knowledge sharing, and create understanding across boundaries.

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A systematic review of the impacts of oil spillage on residents of oil-producing communities in Nigeria

Ezeh,

Onyema,

Obi

et al. 2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Oil spillage is common in oil-producing communities of Nigeria and it impacts negatively on the lives of the residents of these communities. This study analysed available research data on oil spillage incidents in these communities to determine the main causes of the spillage and its impacts on the residents. A systematic review of published studies was carried out and 20 studies were identi ed from the literature search. The main causes of oil spills were identi ed as sabotage, oil theft, illegal re ning, mystery spill, operational failures, and corrosion. Over 70% of the spillages were discovered to be as a result of sabotage by restive youths. Oil spillage was found to impact on the health, source of livelihood, food security, basic amenities, and socio-economic state of the residents. The major interventions were initiated by multinational companies and were targeted at improving health services, education, infrastructure, skill acquisition, and employment, which will in turn reduce the occurrence of violence, insurgency, and human tra cking in the oil-producing communities. This study highlights the immediate and long-term consequences of oil spills on the residents of oil-host communities in Nigeria. The causes of the spills were attributed mainly to the inaction of government regulatory agencies in oil exploration. Thus, it is recommended that government regulatory agencies should be revamped and repositioned to effectively perform their duties.Interventions should be targeted at addressing the causes of the agitation of the indigenes by involving them in the decision-making process. Also, an appropriate remediation strategy should be adopted to clean up the oil spills. IntroductionOil and gas industry remains the backbone of the Nigerian economy since it contributes over 90% of its revenues and about 45% of its GDP (Akinlo, 2012;Ekeghe, 2022). Elum et al. (2016) suggested that Nigeria's economic and political fortunes are strongly linked to crude oil. Thus, one can assume that without crude oil, the Nigerian economy might crumble.Presently, crude oil is produced in nine Southern States of Nigeria (Ejechi, 2022) and the federal government and select multinational companies are vested with the power to explore this resource. Thus, the oil-producing states and oil-host communities have little or no say in the crude-oil exploration decision-making process (Elum, 2016). However, this might change with the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which was recently signed into law. Currently, little attention is being paid to the resultant detrimental impacts of such exploration ventures on the oil-producing communities in Nigeria. The environmental degradation of the ecosystem has resulted in widespread poverty and deprivation of resource advantages in the oil host communities (Elum, 2016). This has given rise to resentments of policies of the federal government by the residents, resulting in several cases of civil disturbance in the region (Apata, 2010).Environmental disasters in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria are cau...

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Petroleum spills and the communicative response from petroleum agencies and companies: Impact assessment from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Environmental Influence of Gas Flaring: Perspective from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Environmental Influence of Gas Flaring: Perspective from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Conflicts and the dilemma of media intervention: An educational information management perspective

A systematic review of the impacts of oil spillage on residents of oil-producing communities in Nigeria

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