eight football pitches it's a foretaste of what the search for oil will become. this enormous crofters itself at the heart of a wider system that consists of searching for oil ever deeper under the sea and also further and further from the explosive situation that prevails on land. submarines platforms and drilling vessels on a map a tiny rectangle named act. as the owner of a few kilometer square that represents a new eldorado. in the center floating like a queen bee a belly full of the treasure that the whole world covets is the flagship of the oil company. and i have your ideas. if. we are far from everywhere but everything is checked.

and you check all the facts. all the bikes. even the people you know you've been working with for years you have to search their backs even those including the head of the station. searching for. you to show them a thing that's bound by drugs guns knives. this kind of thing else this. situation on the gulf of guinea and the most populous country in africa nigeria is roughly the size of france and belgium combined. it's the size of the country the niger delta region that's the object of envy. a geological consultant is overflowing with excellent quality oil. thousands of drillings licensed to the oil companies of the whole world pierce the

country's ground on land and at sea linked together by pipelines that run through the mangroves in the sea in every direction. today nigeria is the largest oil producing country in africa the scene of a banquet between companies. after arriving by helicopter and after the regulation search patrick one of the two managers takes over from his colleague john francois he's back to back in offshore speak. an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father under maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. scheduled to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month. way of dealing with large volumes of it which is very very flammable is more flammable than normal oil also will have

lots of high pressure. it's a look at the system so we can't beat it with our meat and there's a sparkle source for ignition the next thing would be we would have a fire and then we'd put us at risk yes everyone has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert to you because you can't escape. three hundred meters loman don't go. over storage tanks. storage and offloading units woods says everything because. it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage. a process we don't stop but we sit and explore. first ask

a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so what currently. that is that while the whole deck level so below. us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size. clothes and of the decks. at this level. it would be difficult to read because just underneath. so it will be possible to cuts a plot out. of the puzzle the risk of exposed. in another life and then we have. just this with anybody. he said was more than enough means to. just state.

for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and highly risky structure. on board two hundred forty men. completely lost in intel a thing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the f.p.s. is a citadel of tubes fowles elbows through which flows the precious liquid below are dozens of pipes reaching down to the bottom of the sea which suck up the oil. you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnel construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. to nigerian navy patrol boat stunt gone twenty four hours a day. under the olders of antonio djoko. he moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of

happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags organizes patrols and supervises all movements around the base. you. always look so here we have the mucking about and so they are marine operations center where we monitor the whole of the echo field. with this radar. which allows us to check all the boats arriving. can but who are you to know what boat is the right thing and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field with the can all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the. city will continue to secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil. so on this on this is where the

measures required to nigeria considering the threats that exist it's very my jury my wrists the boarding the men malicious intent. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. as in this case all night. are you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not armed. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have one you know making sure there's some guys climb up the chain and they have weapons machine guns for example what do you do but i don't see that there are measures that would be taken measures that have been designed for that situation. there are no guns on board and the situation is under control i repeat the situation is under control. i mean ira is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonnie right at the mouth of the

niger delta. and it's here that the gas sent from the f.p.s. so platform arrives by an undersea pipeline. if it went to the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with huts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san music coming from portable radios open air stores kids running everywhere and a soccer match underway and the fisherman returning with the tide. would be well if next door right next door protected by barbed wire they went sending millions of cubic meters of gas and oil to the most highly developed countries in the world. did by did loading gust to order forty called new york dollars but no one noticed that the

community nearby you know about it i mean anybody from the company from. this you. know is who disagrees with you. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that. was a very deep study lou did not is top one this is. and the small harbor when the ships come in the giants with gas the tiny ones with fish two worlds rope shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger. on it if you want to get a good look we took our own boat metal shop. and . sometimes some things. nigerian people

work for the companies yes yes there was a little boy who was. spotted at the white men he says but that it's very odd it's. a man dressed up as a fly their luggage being blocked from a set of ideas by the dog. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and for cooking they gather wood from the forest. above the terminal on the chimneys that burn off the gas nonstop to prevent overpressure they tell us. that some of them used to the villages of oppression. that. religion would. commit to it i do so much that fish imports would you. think it doesn't know

what that because of the devices it. is in as because i didn't. know what. that does is it not discuss the deniability i think intuitively that about why what i wanted not up to. them i didn't know what. off shore from the village the s.p.'s the engineers and technicians continue extract oil far from land because that's the jewel of the heart of the story machine the end of a pipe and in a small jar the famous brown liquid. the world's holy grail you might say. so but this is the oil. being treated it's a condensate it's a very light crude it is you.

know i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something up that's relatively easy so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria. for this quality you have to go deeper and deeper to find it today all future major projects a situation a very great debt. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more to. the logical evolution to go would get the oil even deep profit. if the input of course other aspects of very important for the commercialization of this sort of. you must see a mixture of water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs

a lot. every time we load our oil product onto a tank we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. say the blood of nigeria because it's their role material it's their problem we're here to help them exploited and for me it's it's the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because if they do it it's because of the millions of years of history. that we have. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white man but despite that there are a few problems. from your point of view can you understand that there are people who might want to attack you. maybe maybe you should cut that.

i'm just asking the question you don't have to answer that i know my answer is yes personally that doesn't surprise me. but doesn't surprise me. so. we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest the major problems yeah. yeah. you know these would be. a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think that's where we move. if we will move into a new we can closed so this is not been done it's in that there fifty it's. the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable the

heat five hundred meters it's already unbearable i was thinking it was the forbidden things like that yes that was a problem in. gaza and that's in two thousand and five but. not on that drug i'm sure but our government. does not have any political will. so they're going to know the. laws of our country is this like a monster so how it smells stinks and this sound. like this is the most i was down there months but this is worse than the most i. see this from a distance. right now. i mean this is. everywhere i did i did the right to but the.

thing that this. is funny it's. becoming like oh my. god. experts say that they can spend in nigeria which by itself be sufficient to satisfy the energy needs of the whole continent of africa billions of cubic meters that we saw in the bowels of vietnam up in smoke they. are famous for the pressure in the pipe. in reality the companies make so much money from the o'neil they don't even care about the gas they pump. the same time. these massive burn offs also create acid rain so that the water in the sky is no longer drinkable. garrison in charge of site surveillance court will have a visit but we spent several hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves to the higher ups of the telephone. solicitors reputation and his work with amnesty

international in particular allow us to get out of trouble. a former farm worker sinister is the leader of most of the movement for the survival of the ogoni people its founder the writer can sorrow we. denounced both the dictatorship and power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the all companies present in nigeria. in a sham trial in which he was accused of murder and despite the process stations and anger of the whole world he was condemned to death and hanged along with eight other members of the movement. which companies are selling. i did visit. several music. one of our company that got that but the results is

a. walk in nigeria companies are the ones as possible. of course brazil. don't come together because they know that when government. programs that this is a. protection permanently escorted synesthete has no car no address and no children anyone who hinders or production in nigeria is under threat of death. the village of oak creek. even crossed by a highway of pipes that don't even bury.

a choice before a freshman. so. quick up on here fear of the theater. now running down to do or rush on to decide for good will of this area. there was a day we would call forms that we saw. everybody we don't know show came to.

the whole of the i did i shorted change all did he sat on the trees. on here i used to fish we've all fishing no fish. he's gone down for ever one day speech i shall discover i doubt he's been he's very. large do we see with us because they are always afraid to dimitri's on composition . we mustn't lump everyone together not all the companies behave or have behaved as badly a shell in nigeria. it's just the worst one amongst them. offshore total allows us to go from installation to installation. and jack ryan is

a motion to special position by satellite with its derrick and its pipes it conforms to the stereotypical image we have of oil drilling. beneath the boat three thousand meters of water and their pockets are a further two thousand meters below the sea bed. and apocalyptic day in harsh conditions a few months back a crane dragged three men into the sea one. of the nigerians on board the wages are unique and a good living in oil whether you're black.

so big as a big bunch of fried you know. it's a big country i don't yes. i don't know but. on the floor below we can clearly see a pipe plunging into a pool part of the ship. this is the umbilical cord fixed to the seabed. inside the slide the rounds that were drilled down to the deposit. and the oil is reached. they install a sort of giant fowls several stories high and that really has been done it and the engineers have a very pretty nickname for it. but. i don't know the point here we are in front of the christmas trees that when you cool it a christmas tree which you know the christmas tree has the well head and ridges and

charges that was based on you since you have all the spots. my. face. it was a. christmas tree would be days to fight for. this is the. price i feel like since something is going on we will be to put you. to do this. to a fifty first must be. there so we started. by . some day so. you have the money back when you bet.

your. three years on he's. not. with those those give you. a short celestin is continue his crusade and he takes us to an incredible spot swallowed up by the underground. fed for it with. what breed of dead dead dead. or where. i went up by. three in june that there are fifty six. that's where i was just thinking that that. i'm not so bad about you know some of the less but as i speak done like my place you know going to not it's not been a course. you can see. used to think like you can see ya bundle and

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