six party talks broke down a year ago with the suspicion that developing an atomic bomb. and millions of wicked pavia uses a hitting this brick wall right now the world's most popular online encyclopedia is in a twenty four hour shut out in protest of american anti piracy plans of the sea as a threat to internet. porn lied about si dot com up next we take you to nigeria for the next thirty minutes nation of course rich in oil but where its own people suffer violence terrorism and poverty. it's like an island cut off from everywhere accessible only by helicopter. banks in more than two hundred kilometers off the coast of nigeria

a floating frankly that is unique in the world as big as a football pictures 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 the. submarine platforms and drilling vessels on a map a tiny rectangle named back. here zone 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 company. and i have your ideas. if. we are far from everywhere but everything is checked.

this and you check all the facts this is how it all back to the sort of community go up even the people you know you've been working with or for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for mainly. to tissue anything that's bound by drugs guns knives. this kind of thing else that's behind the. 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 insolvent 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 link 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. all. after arriving by helicopter and after the regulation search patrick one of the two managers takes over from his colleague john francois his back to back in offshore speak. with an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father and a maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. you've got plenty on their schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month we're dealing with large volumes of this it which is very very flammable is more flammable than normal oil and also we

have large volumes of gas at high pressure. it's a mechanical system so we kind of leak if we have meat and there's a sparkle source of ignition the next thing would be you would have a fire and then you'd put us at risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. don't you so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert what you best who because of the opposition can't escape. three hundred meters long and all but this one is where over story starts. their name is the field seeing. the storage offloading units woods everything because. it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process

we don't store but we sit and export gas first task a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so we're currently. like i said while the whole deck level so be no. loss now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size along three. of choice corrosion of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repair because just underneath we have tons of oil so it will be rather impossible to cut a part out so well whatever the cause of the risk of exposure. is another lifeboat here and then of course we have. rafts just this way so anybody. you say has more than enough means to. just stay.

for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and highly risky structure. on board are two hundred forty men so completely lost in the interlacing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the f.p.s. as a citadel of tubes valves 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. good morning. to nigerian navy patrol boat stunt gone twenty four hours a day under the odors of antonio djoko patrol rulebook. 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. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so there are operations center where we monitor the whole of the echo field. with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving. can the two of you to know what both of the riving and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field i think in all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the.

city looking to move 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 of the day considering the threats that exist it's very nigeria myra's the bordering the mehdi militia. list and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. doesn't this one item that they 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 the other measures that would be taking place 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 ari is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonny 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 weren't for the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with hearts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san news it 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. didn't want. every did by

did loading gus to order forty called new york dollars not one not the community nearby you know about it i mean anybody from the company. and this. is full now. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that. twenty four hours every day. not is top one this is. in the small harbor when the ships come in the giants with gas the tiny ones with fish to world's rope shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger back of it or not if you wanted to do was get a little we took our own. metal shop. and. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people

work for the companies yes there was a little boy with us he brought us all. about that at the white men he says but it's very odd you. come on just like their luck to bring blood from us out of all of us but that is job for you to. you. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and from 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. these villages would.

commit to it i did some of that fish imports would you. think it does or was that because of the devices it. has because i didn't doubt for it and i said i didn't know what i should do anything with. that dies is it not discuss the deniability i think it will do that by what i wanted not up to him to. repeat what i didn't know what the. goal of. off shore from the village the f.p.s. the engineers and technicians continue extracting oil far from land because that's the job of the heart of the extraordinary 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. i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something out that's relatively easy to use so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria. so this quality you have to go deeper and deeper to find it today or future major projects a situation of very great depth. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more to. the logical evolution to go would get the oil even deeper. to the impulse of course other aspects are very important for the commercialization

of this sort of the case against you mustn't see i mean i mix or water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs a lot to come from much else every time we load our oil products onto a tanker we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. was up and i say the blood of nigeria because it's their role material it's their problem if what is it we're here to help them exploited and for me it's for what is the fruit of their history just what we spoke of their history because if they do it it's because of their millions of years of history. because of all the other we have. in the world. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white my this 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. but maybe for maybe you should cut that just a bit. 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 cynical but doesn't surprise me. so he's back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest and major problems yeah. yeah. you know if these were. the runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think the effort that's where we move. on if well and we will move into a new we could come close to this not been done it's in that there fifty it's the elite.

the end of a pipeline most in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable the heat at five hundred meters is already unbearable i was thinking it was the forbidden things like that yes that there was a problem in mckinney. and that's in two thousand and five but i'm not on that dogma and i'm different our government. does not have any political weight. i thought it was you know the thread was against the laws of our country but this is like a monster so how it smells stinks and the sound. like this is the most i was down there months but this is worse than the most you can. see this from a distance. right now. you can see. i mean that this is. all. there. really

everywhere i did i did plan to write about the place. it's about the. bad thing that the city is about the i mean it is funny it's hard. becoming like your mom my dad yeah. yeah. experts say that the gas burned off 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 the us go up in smoke they. think the pressure in the pipe. in reality companies make so much money from the oil that they don't even care about the gas they pump. at the same time. these massive burn offs also create acid rain so that the water from the sky is no longer drinkable. good. garrison in charge of site surveillance court will have a visit where you spent several hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves

to the higher ups over the telephone. cellist seems reputation and his work with amnesty international in particular allow us to get out of trouble. to. a former farm worker as a leader of most of the movement for the survival of the ogoni people its founder the writer can sorrow. denounced both the dictatorship and power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the oil 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 yes i did visit. several music.

one of our company there got that but the results is a bit and. walk in nigeria company is now the much as possible. of course brazil. because they know that when. markets. are problems that this is a. check to permanently escorted celestin has no car no address and no children anyone who hinders or production in nigeria is under threat of death and. the village of a creek. he's even crossed by the highway of pipes that don't even bury.

would. take choice before sufficient suckage watch. put up on here still in the theater. for. now right down to the old boy or on to decide if i could one of these areas there was a day we would call from steve we saw fire bonnie want everybody we don't know show

came to. all of this i did i hear artist has all dead he sat on the trees fell dead. on here i used to fish weasel fishing no fish don't want to golly he's gone down for ever one day spiel i shall discover i doubt he's been he's very. large who would see it is so with us because they are always afraid two people damages and composition. was all you could. we must 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 motionless vessel 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 therefore pockets are a further two thousand meters below the seabed. an apocalyptic day in harsh conditions a few months back a crane dragged three men into the sea one dying. thanks for the nigerians on board the wages are you know you earn a good living in oil whether you're black or white.

it's a big country they get a big bunch of fried you know that what. they do it's a big country i brought us up to be. happy possibly. not i want to be i don't know but. on the floor below we can clearly see a pipe plunging into a pool the heart of the ship. this is the i'm going to cook or fix to the seabed. inside the slide the rods that were drilled down to the deposit. and the oil is reached they install a sort of giant valve several stories high over the drilling 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 tree is that when you cool it the christmas tree which you know the christmas tree is so well had and ridges and charges that was based on you since you have all this must stay here i mean. my. face. yeah. yeah. so if it was a. christmas tree they'd be ok if they give five inch to predict why this is it's what. was going on with the price i feel like that would sound to us about barry's going oh we will be to put too. much profit put it. to good investment but. first this is going. to twenty feet first must be discouraging so we started in two thousand and seven. we've run by.

seven day so. you have the money back when you best. right here. three years on the slope it's. not. widows just give you one thing you make. sure celestin is continuing his crusade and he takes us to an incredible spot swallowed up by the undergrowth for. the birds far away. i would read in bed at the . door where. i wear number one. three june that there are fifty six. go. a. special way that was done. in that that. i'm not so bad about yourself the less but as i speak don't like my place you know going in not doing it i've been

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