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a century according to unofficial results from saturday's poll that was marred by gunfire and violence. elderado for some and how for others next we traveled to nigeria to explore how oil drilling affects local communities. but the best is yet to be seen that lost in the brush just a few meters away. before. you know as a compass is up to them for the boy to confront the police. obasanjo the former president of nigeria in march two thousand and one promised that if i got a manager it was a beaut. oil and gas research institute to be here and let the foundations to me and our walk was supposed to commence the following day came much for that respect this is the only institute that is in dispute. i listen to this the truth 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 going. inside you do your research this is and this was led by the president not an artist and not a minister president of the for the republican idea. that is what we have been. what it would look would not give up the. port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially it's country it's like the nigerians who work on the platforms often live here when they're ashore. we're in the car of patrick i can 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 would gone out for a drive but you don't know these are fairly difficult for you to trust somebody here because most of how the little stories whereby. the boy employed. or drive your house needs they. could not know that it. will for a fair a struct in one the 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 he started it was that it was the boys the espace that he could not buy they take care of but after all why he's no more the he i spotted the fire and they had good accommodation on and had an exclusive but the one thing as an all

a that's so you'll have to. prove kind i don't know how you try to provide security for itself. just as a very careful one to see how you can take care of. yourself i know if i'm going to i don't go this way and it is known as a strict. don't go where. just needs to know it's a look around the people of the bar and you are no doubt. started to speak. some of the we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is the same for so from you know your guide see look through this who is that we decide if

anything is going oh you've found a tree or to see all the doors he already does i was here with a view. there are like. more here we see of life still so good. so. so then i looked it out minds because of a wish with oprah for what they get of anything just to be here for security purposes difficult for them to get to you is really so you call the bullies or you . patrick and his wife so you get used to it all but the state of alert becomes second nature when patrick quits the tension of his high risk job 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. it was not that she. was a curse on the journey of. god is because of what is happening now. because what

is happening so people now see it as close because of the militancy the kidnapping . taken is. an organ. and that's what you see. it's just the government there isn't here is themselves that's why. this labor costs are not sublists. this is what mrs i told is talking about a militant from men movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed guerrillas who attacked all the sites blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mangroves the chiefs are in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from arms sales oil smuggling and ransoms demanded from foreign companies they confront the forces of law and order directly in exchanges which end in death some both sides. after endless bargaining during our

various trips we were able to make contact with the men the militants. they agreed to talk as a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors we met the men who terrorize the oil companies workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production and it's the man who's going to talk to us calls himself commander rambo here. for the course when the general is we have been like it's a slit for the buzz says clear seven years. just given for the submission of language that i will settle for you my suppression of those in the radio has just. this isn't like the said girl says there's the use in this.

tactic is the vote in a different way but a sword doing in the schoolyard is they were doing divide and rule they were. like my own pop it's. more the same to the fact is the center. because this oil company is that and give money to one look for one government official only suppresses the cries the rights of the people so it's nuclear. we have to do this to force their hand to do some. not just economy with a government to cause if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. congress to swallow it is sit of and or destroy are you able to go far offshore to form for example if in in the it

comes of. a man the 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 to go was from his office patrick is in contact with the offices on shore several times a day though his reports are like a poem with figures. twenty two mismatch from. twelve point three was due to just export. our production gas was that point one five million started to cool. we injected five. full day. with c. due to. the gas exports was.

getting a shortfall so. what injection was done is. it . there is a plan for a gradual plan for nineteen. off most of the major point positions on the f.d.a. so. jim de mint didn't have all the shows on by this year so. it's possible but i think that would be possible odds with each. it to be would look here to be if it is it does happen. i would see maybe it would be in the next fifteen or twenty years because. the fact is we have to lie all the. 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. a set time from a village whose name the inhabitants also 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. because 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. love all those in our boat call to them reassuring upward.

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

like if even if what they did he felt. the ice would. find useful and if they. did. i think there's a different to refining process we need all coal from the steam coal one on up that nada. they call one of. its local.

finest. ok there's always room. for. the skins east we went to the. fish block then and we put it inside the old we said fly on the open up that's on the green stone cold they were until. we gave up that we don't get greedy to. do each leg that's going to knows we want to. define with each new team that would . buy on opening day with people we can a deal with by the way i do wish. we. can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner 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. and. of course how close this is look i don't think we did know what the concrete well known tree line on anything everybody's trouble nice although still we go to find a less safe. well on the. hills in are pouring out boiling refined oil the residues on the under still task will be thrown into a hole dug in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the

refinery canoes full to the gunnels with oil await their turn. the boat is used in confined could. probably use. the. sort of using conveying them. like a truck like short like a truck like a truck like a truck because i'm. getting from somewhere far away from here so we can't take drum or bucket to the point i come back it will be strenuous i need to acquire them many times so they use these to convey a good quantity of the product to just fill the board like that show with the crude oil. so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of this could all till you need to contaminate the water they put it into the cane oh this is called the put it to

dick you know and process it here refine it here. and after all where do the refined. ok. is the black market in local markets the local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that i know even. i to do it has a network this is business has a netbook so that people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day when using the supplement the d.d.d. the national. product because it is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million population and about a friend i was at work and as you are aware and these people guys are doing these to the government for this. every way to sustain yes yes yes.

here and there across the forest 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 and refined come from how did they get it. on the way christmas trees abandoned like old but some economy. scorched earth that once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. the menace coating 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 blacks do you. nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half emerging the well is here to stay here others work there's a button on the ground here b.s. there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations to bonnie tom and there's a ton going on in borno where he is cloaked export queue crude oil from day and the pipes are being laid on the ground from here to bony yes what is the technique people from here use for collecting the crude oil when they see that one to see that there is a leak to go to disport because it leaks from the ground up to the day on to get to the point on the chrome when they get did he put tourists on the sufi's of the back i'm going with. the vessel you can still get.

used to oil too much or too much too much water here. thank you. never stopped. with dick close it wonderfully to close it in didn't know when to calm the open it to. use it needed a time to close it because there willacy they don't want people to see that. you have to continuously out the oil but. they used a mission to machine connect to the host there. was. around the makeshift drilling a mango is dead 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 require 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 oil well. 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 cans who 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 of 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. what spy to see going tugs the maneuver

seems almost traditional. thought it would be. just a lot of no no to do that would push us what was put up with that to be dug up there would be about a fourth that. is going to us way it's good to see a guy that. was asking us to do it without getting caught so we thought it would help. you know how to do better i going through that old every day. with some guys one we don't. want to go. you study going to do one you don't want close it's like got some by nine hundred. you know. you

will probably have. these. big selloff to keep on the looking. god given the big one three. because the guy got. 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. i don't know. what a. lot of. guys i was like. oh shit i see festool. was spam then i would yeah yeah. you know. there are. twenty four hours a day off the coast the petrol is pumped treated then delivered the world needs

energy and we haven't found anything better. in the future they envisage drilling to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand meters. from land and watching ice at night the s.p.s. i was like a magnificent motionless fog display and i am one last question to ask. you . i thought i would. board we mean. we maintain a principle that everyone is equal and some of the company rules them without a source where you come from long whether you're male female and so on and. with sure that's as much as possible no problems come from and so far so far we haven't had any and it's applies to most of all the other sites that have talked to.

her some workers some workers the best saying that. each of nigeria. was feeling. their general was here companies to make money. but was saying. it's. its sides and can say it's one thing. probably not probable but. life life is not.

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