them for the boy they came from this place obasanjo the former president of nigeria in march two thousand and one promised that if i got a manager it was a beaut. research institute to be here and need to fund. me and our walk was supposed to commence the following day him much well as we speak this is the only institute. i listen to this is a true this is the oil and gas research institute in nigeria yes that's a good resource so you can come out to do research if you want to come here you really see a lot just gone. inside you do your research this is and this was led by the president not an artist and not a minister president of the federal public and i did. that is what we have.

port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially expectorate like the nigerians who work on the platforms often live here when they're ashore. we're in the car of patrick who we met on the f.p.s. . he's head of the control room a major post two weeks at sea two weeks ashore he suggested that we stop to visit his home just now patrick is off to fetch his children from school. normally. gone out for a drive but. it's difficult for you to throw somebody here because it was a lot of stories you have. to put employed. or drive your house needs a. good no it's. a fair

a struct and one other school everyone tries to parks close a possible maximum security cars even drive into the playground patrick actually goes into each classroom to fetch his three children one by one initially when you started it was that it was the it was the spotted i could not buy they take it but after i did these no more the spotted off i had to have a good outcome when they shone in an exclusive. on all a that's so you'll have to. prove kind and then how you try to provide security for itself. just as a very careful one to see how you can take care of. farming that but overall it's. when it's known as a street. don't go out when he just needs. it's a look around to pull. the bar on you i know that's. just.

from one person we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve for so from you know your guide see look through this issue is that he does that if anything is going on you get to see all those he already does i was here you. were here with the old lie still so. so. so then there look at god minds and good software which we don't proof for but they get over anything just for security purposes difficult for them to get to you isn't it so you call the police on. patrick and his wife so you get used to it all but

the state of alert becomes second nature when patrick which the tension of his high risk he confronts another tension ashore. the eye ito family is very well off they leave the country during the vacations to take a rest i've heard people say that he. was not cheats but was a curse on the journey of looting because of what is up now. because what is happening so people not see it as close because of the need to see the kidnapping and. being taken this by you have. been given loads. and. it's just the government isn't to raise themselves so that's why. it's like a call. this is what mrs i was talking about a militant from a movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed

guerrillas who attack all the sites blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mangroves chiefs or in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from all the sales oil smuggling and ransoms demanded from foreign companies they confront the forces of law and order directly and exchanges are attendant deaths on both sides. after endless bargaining during our various trips we were able to make contact with the mend militants. they agreed to talk at a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors we met the man who terrorize the oil companies workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production it's the

man who's going to talk to us calls himself commander rambo here. because when we have been late as slated for the buzz if. disproven forgiveness of the sort of language that i will do for the most suppression of those in the radio. there's the. different story. my point that. this is the. because this is the give money to look at cheerful when goldman. only suppresses the rights of the people so.

we have to do this to force their hand to do so. not only would the government cause if we destroy production it's our face the government of. congress to. swallow it is sit or fund or destroy. are you. sure. good form for example if the cause of suppose so. amanda militants are able to travel far in their fast and powerful boats. aboard the f.b.i. so they're waiting for them but with our name when they might come the price of a ransom for an expatriate fifty thousand dollars thirty thousand euros the hostages are always returned in good condition. from his office patrick is in contact with the offices on shore several times a day though his reports are like a poem with ficus. twenty two mismatch from.

twelve point three was due to just export. our production gas was the point one five million started in two q. we injected five. full day. with c. to the top of the exponent was. a good new start for. jackson was done so. there is. plans for a gradual plan one tonight. of most of the major point positions on the f.d.a. so. megyn or the dose i'm one of this is

so. it's possible but i think that would be ceased. to be a baby if it's it does happen. i would see maybe it being next fifteen or twenty years because. the facts is we have to. technology from the outside we don't have the local technology. contrary to what patrick thinks they do have the technology but not the same means . a little trip continues along the delta for a sequence that nobody has ever yet managed to fill in. the set time from a village whose name the inhabitants also is not to mention because their revenues don't exactly derives from the declared economy. the journey through the

mangroves in the countries arms of the delta is scary. to cross huge areas where oil spread. thick layer of black oil that covers the entire surface of the water below which all life is totally disappeared. kilometer after kilometer of mangrove are affected and yet no scientific mission has ever yet come into these territories and. the six black smoke is rising over the mangroves. we've arrived at last. as we approach the men flee. over those you know a boat call to them reassuring up.

a refinery. an illegal refinery under the open sky. men distill crude oil. amidst the steam on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few cans to make stills. and who feed the fire by tossing bowls of oil onto it. it's an apocalyptic scene under the dying trees. live here d.t.'s. sleep and die. from the inside.

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the ice would. get a. there's a different to refining process so we need all coal from the steam. to find. ok there's a. decent east we went. we put it inside the old we said. greenspun when will. we gave up that we. do each leg that's going to know if we want to. define our speech.

on. monday when we go we always buy what do we. what can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. and a quarter of a dying micro fisherman turn borders of crude oil just trying to get by. a nightmare no. more of a parallel economy which learn the basics of refining from oil company technicians . where does the crude come from and where does the refined products go. decision. was made to smoke i don't. know what. the line on anything

everybody's trouble nice old steel would go is fine the last. on the. hills are now pouring out boiling refined oil residue something under still taz will be thrown into a hole in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the refinery. oil await their term. used. as a crude. sort of. like a truck. like a truck like a truck like a truck because i'm. getting from somewhere far away from here so we can't.

get to the point and come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these two. good quantity of the produce just like that with the crew. so many so many so many so these bodies sometimes they go there instead of this. time you need to do water they put it into the. this is called put it to dick you know and process it here refine it here. and after. the refined. ok. is black market in local markets the local market there are people who comes here to buy from or the places people that are not even. i to do it has a netbook these days business has a netbook so their people come from far and wide to get this productive for

themselves and of course there's been a day of been using to supplement the d.v.d. did not. productive is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million population and about a friend i was out walking as you are aware and these people guys are doing these two not for this. every way this is the yes yes. here and there across the forests smoke rises to indicate a refinery apparently there are dozens we do a little further into the mangroves. which is the crude oil that these men refined come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees. some economy.

scorched earth once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. and then a scorching us have taken a risk the village chiefs people in high places get dividends from illegal refineries but the feeling of a dead end the point of no return is drowning them in indignation. after a moment we stop in the middle of an expanse of black stew. nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half a matching the well is here to here others work. on the ground here b.s. there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations to bony tom and up there's a ton going on a boat to where he is cloaked export coup crude oil from day and the pipes are being laid on the ground from here to bony yes which is the technique

people from here use for collecting the crude oil when they see that when to see that there's a leak to go to disport because it leaks from the ground up so d. d. want to get to the points on the chrome when they get dead he put tourists on the sufi's of the i'm pretty good. as well you can still get. used to used oil too much or too much some which was here. never stopped. the closes wonderfully the close it in didn't know when to call the open need to. use it all day time to close it because there willacy they don't want people to see that. you can have been called to see. what.

they used from the mission to machine. to the host. around the makeshift drilling i'm angry at his dad eaten away by the oil. it's this type of leak more or less assisted that is the source of the black swamps we pass through. and we learn that retired engineers and technicians from the companies do the jobs themselves. because the operation requires skill. for two thousand dollars they come with their equipment d.p.s. the pipeline and they put in a tap. the commissioner of this act of piracy then becomes owner of his own norway . and sells the raw material to the buyers in the canoes to refine it further on. so all along the road you find tiny independent service stations consisting of three or four counts to supply the motorist. a flourishing black market based on chaos and man's inventiveness. out at sea

it's a final stage in the process. a giant boy will serve as a morning and supply point for supertankers from all over the world. two hundred kilometers off the coast the d.i.y. man and backyard refiners won't be piercing the pipelines pilots are responsible for that operation by hand and by hook. watch by to see going tugs the maneuver seems almost traditional. if. it would be. just a bottle. to do good so that i would push the blues up without the dog that would be about if. it's going to. be about i. was going to do what i was going to call it without it without.

you know how to better i going through that. ever. today. with me don't. you study going to be one you don't want close it's like got somebody one hundred. go. through probably a. big sell off you go looking. to be going through. filling the tank it would take three days and it will be immediately replaced by another. you can almost hear the oil slipping through the pipes. going to. put

out. my. eyes i was like. oh shit i see festool. spam yeah it's been awful yeah. you know. twenty four hours a day to coast petrol is pumped treated then delivered the world needs energy and we haven't found anything better. in the future they envisage turning to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand meters. from land and watching ice at night the f.p.s. that was like a magnificent motionless fog display and i am one last question to ask.

we mean. we maintain a principle that everyone is equal and some of the company rules on the data source where you come from all whether you're male female and so on and. sure that's as much as possible no problems can feel so far so far we haven't had any and it's applies to most of all of the sites that have to. i've personally workers some workers the best set. of nigeria. was. their gender it was their company's network. but i was saying. it's.

it's sad and to say it's one thing. probably not probable. but. life's life is not.

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quite. the week's top stories in today's headlines of the arab league calls on syrian president bashar al assad to surrender some of his powers to his vice president and form a national unity government with the opposition this comes as the league extends its observer mission despite a lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financial district in union of romania brothers is up against its government's anti austerity measures. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches new

highs as the e.u. debates an oil embargo and the u.s. ups its military presence in the region. and the power of the internet and action on a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws . thanks for joining us at the top of the hour the arab league is demanding a series of reforms in syria to stabilize the country in the wake of almost a year of violent uprising and it's called on president assad to cede some of his powers to the vice president as well as work towards the formation of a national unity government arab league officials says their monitors will continue to implement a peace plan in the country despite saudi arabia was drawing in contingency and as

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