Oil spill response times in Delta State
NOSDRA — the federal regulator — records every oil spill it investigates. Its register holds 2,543 spills in Delta State since 2005. A Joint Investigation Visit is due within 24 hours of a report. It happened within 24 hours 24.4% of the time, and the median time to a visit was 3 days.
Every year the register covers
2005 to 2025. The year with the most recorded spills is 2013, with 169.
2026 is left off the line: the register was retrieved on 2026-08-26, so its 46 spills so far are a part-year standing next to full ones. Drawn alongside them it would read as a collapse, which is not what the register says. Official record
A year here is when the incident was recorded, not when it was resolved. A rise can be more spills or more reporting, and the register cannot tell the two apart.
Ughelli South
The same register, for one area.
What NOSDRA classified them as
The regulator's classification, not a finding of this platform and not a description of what happened. Official record
Who was operating
The operator named on the incident. Any organisation named here can have a response published beside its record — how that works.
See them on the mapWhat NOSDRA recorded as the cause
Its classification, not ours, and not a finding of this platform.
NOSDRA's classification affects whether compensation is due. About two thirds of Delta's spills are classified as sabotage. Official record
Where
| Local government area | Spills recorded |
|---|---|
| Warri South West | 451 |
| Ndokwa East | 203 |
| Ughelli South | 191 |
| Sapele | 159 |
| Burutu | 158 |
| Warri South | 153 |
| Warri North | 147 |
| Ughelli North | 132 |
| Isoko North | 120 |
| Ethiope West | 114 |
| Isoko South | 109 |
| Okpe | 75 |
| Udu | 57 |
| Uvwie | 43 |
| Ndokwa West | 31 |
| Ethiope East | 6 |
| Ukwuani | 6 |
| Bomadi | 4 |
| Ika South | 4 |
2,204 of 2,543 spills carry coordinates in the register. Counted from NOSDRA's own Joint Investigation Visit register, excluding the 346 Delta records the agency itself marks 'no spill found' or 'invalid'. Response times are the days between the recorded incident date and the recorded stage date. Official record
Who was operating
The operator named on the incident. This records what the regulator published; it is not an assessment of any company, and any organisation named here can have a response published beside its record — how that works.
Not yet published
- Compensation payments for spills are not yet published: what was paid, to whom, and whether it was paid.
- Records of challenges to cause classifications are not yet published: how many a community challenged, and how many succeeded.
NOSDRA publishes response times, which makes this page possible. Compensation payments for these 2,543 spills are not yet published. Not yet published