TODAY
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.