Bomu oil field

The Bomu oil field is an oil field located in Gokana Local Government Area of the Eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The discovery well was spudded in February 1958 and discovered 265 ft of gas sands and 165 feet of oil bearing sands of the Agbada formation. Production began in 1959 and the first stage of a 12-inch pipeline connecting Bomu to the town of Bonny through Anam was completed in the same year.[1]

Prior to the Nigerian Civil War, production reached 75,000 barrels per day with 26 oil producing wells and 3 water producing wells.[2] In 1970, a blow-out occurred in one of the production wells at Bomu leading to the destruction of vegetation and farm crops.[3]

References
  1. "Ocean Oil Terminal for Nigerian Oil Industry". The Guardian. May 5, 1960. p. 13.
  2. Ariweriokuma, Soala (2001). The Political Economy of Oil and Gas in Africa: The Case of Nigeria. Routledge. p. 28. ISBN 9781134039593 – via Google Books.
  3. Georg, Frynas, Jedrzej (2000). Oil in Nigeria : conflict and litigation between oil companies and village communities. Germany: Lit Verlag. p. 168. ISBN 3825839214. OCLC 43186295.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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