Tension enveloped Koluama community, Southern Ijaw Local Government Council Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday, following the invasion and shutting down of
The aggrieved members of the community had besieged the facility and told the oil workers to shut the facility and leave the site of the 30,000 barrels per day capacity flow station.
Chief Young Fabby, a Community leader in Koluama 1, a rural settlement along the Atlantic coast, told NAN on Tuesday that the facility was shut to protest the oil firm’s insensitivity to its social obligations to the people.
He said the aggrieved community shut operations at the flow station on Monday and sacked oil workers deployed to run the oil facility following Conoil’s failure to renew the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which expired in 2020.
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March 9, 2021
A crude production flow station operated by Conoil Production at Ango field in Koluama, Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa, has been shut down.
Oil workers at the onshore facility connecting oil wells within the swamps and creeks at Koluama were escorted out of the area in speedboats by armed security men.
The aggrieved community members had besieged the facility and told the oil workers to shut down the facility and leave the site of the 30,000 barrels per day capacity flow station.
On Tuesday, a community leader in Koluama I, a rural settlement along the Atlantic coast, Young Fabby, said the facility was forced to shut down to protest the oil firm’s insensitivity to its social obligations to the people.
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