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a century but success never comes without consequences violence corruption and massive pollution has made major area one of the most dangerous parts of the world we'll look at why. but the best is yet to be seen the last in the brush just a few meters away i think. you know i think the president did them. 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 to fund. me and our walk was supposed to commence the following day care much but as we speak this is the only institute that is in the. list business 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 assistant not a minister president of the for the republican idea this through. that is what we. would 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. so. he said 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 you don't know it's difficult for you to trust somebody here because it was all of hugs a lot of stories there but. the boys are employed. or drive your house needs they could live with could not know that. they will for a fair a struct in one of the 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 it was the espace that he could not by the way take care but after these no more the b.s. spotted about fire and they had a good accommodation and had an exclusive body and one thing as an all a that's so you'll have to. prove your kind and 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 get on boats. when it is known this is tricky. don't go out when he just needs to know you need to look around to people. before i knew i know that's. right it has become a shock. to. some others if we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve fred so from you know your guide see look through the sue is that we decide if anything is going on you look through yet to see all those he already does i get to watch a good deal here. we're

here with the orb lie still so good news. so then their lucky dog minds because of their wish would oprah forward because of them. to be here for security purposes difficult for them to get to you isn't it so you call the bullies or you. patrick and his wife so you get used to it all that 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 the cheats but it was a curse on the journey who. is the other what is there now. because what is happening so people now see it as a class because of the militancy the kidnapping and the saying.

being taken is biafra. and that's what you see and it's just the government isn't here is themselves that's what it was is that this labor costs are not sublists. this is what misses i toes talking about militants from men movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed guerrillas who attack all sides blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mangroves their chiefs are in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from almost sales oil smuggling and ransoms reminder from foreign companies and 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. we agreed to talk at a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors when we met the man who terrorized 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 the manger was we had been like a slave for the buzz fifty three or seven years. this movement for the suppression of language that i will fighting for you my suppression of those in the lane the radio has a distance. this isn't like the said girl says there's the views in this. talk to vote in

a different way but the sword they're doing in the schoolyard is they were doing divide a room and they were. like my old pop it's. more the sentence the fact is the sentence because this oil company is that and give money to look out for one government official only suppresses the cries the rights of the people so. we have to do this to force their hand to some to right not just the economy with the government because if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. mr swallow it is sit of and or destroy are you able to go far offshore to a good forum for example. they've been in that close of us for so.

the man the militants are able to travel far and they're 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 figure 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 oil and twelve point three was due to just expose. our production gas was that point one five new standard to q. we injected five. short full day. with c. due to. the gas explosion was.

a good new start for. what injection was doing this and. there is a plan for a gradual plan for nineteen. of most of the major point positions on the f.d.a. so. mention all those on one of the if you so. it's possible but i think that would be. the seach. it to be would look here to baby if it's it does happen. i would think maybe it would be in the next fifteen or twenty years because the fact is we have to lie all the. technology from outside and go house to 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. who said i'm 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 mangrove in the countries arms of the delta is scary. because huge areas were spread. thick layer of black oil that covers the entire surface of the water below which all life has totally disappeared. kilometer after kilometer of mangrove are affected and yet no scientific mission has ever yet come into these territories .

the six black smoke is rising over the mangroves. we've arrived at last. as we approach the men fully. 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 they're handed a means to steal a talk on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few cams to make stills. and to feed the fire by tossing bowls of oil onto it. it's an apocalyptic scene of the dying palm trees. the men live here d.t.s. . sleep here and die here. todd up from the inside.

light if the thief would a dickey feel. he would. find this one if it was a. gift. i think there's a different to refining process we all coal from the steam. they call one of. its local. finest. ok there's always room.

to skin feast we went to the fish block didn't we put it inside the fault we said fly on the open up that's on the green stone cold day when will. we gave up that we don't get greedy to. do each leg that's going to knows we want to. define our speech. and. all on. one day with people we cannot deal with by what i do with food or. what can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner of a dying micro fisherman turn borders of crude oil are 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 because this is look. did you also know what the concrete well known tree line on anything everybody's trouble nice although still we go to find a less safe. well only. if the stilson are pouring out boiling refined oil the residues of the under still task will be thrown into a hole dug in the ground to fuel another operation. the opposite the refinery can use full to the gunnels with oil await their turn. the

boat is used in confined could. probably use. the. sort of using convened a crude. 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 drama but get to the point and come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these to convey a good quantity of the product just feel the world like that show with the crude oil. so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of this crude oil to terminate or contaminate the water they put it into the keno this is called the put into the

canoe and process it here refine it here. and after all where do the refined. ok. is the black market the local market their local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that i know even. i to do it has a new talk this business has a network so there are people come from far away to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day when using the supplement the d.v.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.

here and there across the forest smoke rises to indicate a refinery apparently there are dozens we do a little further into the mangrove. which is the crude oil that these and refined come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees down the glycol bit some economy. scorched earth once served as a refinery parties of oil everywhere. the menace courting 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 bony tom and there's a ton going on him but no where he is gloat 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 when to see that there is a leak they go to disport because it looks from the ground up they want to get to the point on the ground when they get there he put tourists on this stuff is of the i'm pretty good. as well you can still get.

used to the oil too much or too much too much water here. thank you. never stopped. yet dick close it wonderfully to close it in didn't know when to call the open it to. use it in the daytime to close it because there willacy they don't want people to see that. you never do this you want to know about the oil. they use pumping mostly mission the machine. to the host yeah. it was. all around the makeshift drilling and my group 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 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 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. i don't see it's the 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 a lot would cost a lot of now though to do that would push us what was moved up with that to be dug up that would be about it was that. standoff way it's good to see it but i. was asked about it when i was going to call it without it without. problems like. you know how to do better i going through that old every day. with me 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.

these. big selloff you go keep on going to look it. up in the big one three. because the guy got a. 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. what i. thought. i was i was like. oh shit i see if this. was spam then i would yeah. you know. there are. twenty four hours a day off the coast petrus 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. i was like a magnificent motionless firework display and i am one last question to ask. you. on board we mean. we maintain a principle of that and what is equal to some of the common rules on that is sort of where you come from along 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 out of the sites that i've talked to a. person workers some workers the

best saying that. each of nigeria. nigeria was feeling. and their general was here at the company's network. but it was simply. it's. it's sad and can see it's one thing. probably not probable but. life life is not.

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