it's the size of the country the niger delta region that's the object of envy. a geological insult that 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. 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. an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father under maltese mother patrick is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. on the schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month we're dealing with large volumes of

it which is very very flammable is more flammable than normal oil and also we have lots volumes of gas a type of. it's a total system so we kind of leak. if we have meat and there's a sparkle sourceforge mission the next thing you would have a fire and then you put us at risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. so we have to be careful here permanently on the alert for to you because you can't escape. the three hundred meters loman don't go. over storage tanks. in the name. of. units woods

says everything because it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process we don't store but with seeds and export gas first ask a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe put cathedral so what currently. that is that while the whole deck level so below us. below us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size. of choice corrosion of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repay because just on the needs we have counts so it will be possible to cut the plots out. of the puzzle the risk of exposing. is another lifeboat here and then both we have. just

a case with so anybody. he said has 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. 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 sir.

and this two nigerian navy patrol boats stand guard twenty four hours a day under the orders 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. i always look so here we have the sense of the 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. to know what boat of the right thing to do and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field to thicken all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the earth

. with this. research it will come to me 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 high risk the bordering the man malicious intent. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. as in this case on item. are you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not on. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have no making your ruler should have 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 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. every day by did loading gust to order. you know dollars but not the one that upset the community nearby you know about it i mean anything from the company. and this you. know. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that. are going to fall was a very deep study lou did not is top one this is. in 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. wanted to do was get a little we took our own. metal shop. and

. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes yes there was a little boy was. spotted at the white men he says but it's very odd you. just. bring blood from outside of our dog. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and from cooking think of the wood from the forest. of the terminal on the chimneys that burn off the gas nonstop to prevent overpressure they tell us. that's

a lot of use to the villages overpressure. these villages were. the only two were i do some of the fish imports. they were thinking does or was that because of the devices in the early. reduces in that's because i didn't end up for it and i said i didn't know what i should have been hearing about that i says and i discuss it in the i think it will kill it out of in your mouth about why what i wanted not up until later by that review was i did think of what the others. offshore from the village the f.p.s. so engineers and technicians continue extract 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 up that's relatively easy up if you so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria if it can. push up through this quality we have to go deeper and deeper to find it difficult today over future major projects a situation of very great depth. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more technological evolution to go and get the oil even deeper.

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it's the impulse of course other aspects are very important for the commercialization of this sort of. you must see i mean i make sure water and oil because water doesn't cost much on oil costs a lot. of every time we load our oil product 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 what is it we're here to help them exploited and for me it's what is the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because if they do it it's because the symbolism of millions of years of history. because we have. peace. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient way 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 maybe you should just. 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. 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 these would. protest movement to. once the environmental damage caused by the oil companies wants to show us something for nothing well we move. on if well and we will move into a new we could come close though this is not been done it's in that there fifty it's to. the end of the pipeline most in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable the heat five hundred meters is already unbearable i was thinking it was the forbidden gas like that yes that was a problem in mckinney. and that's in two thousand and five but. i'm not on that drug i'm different our government. does not have any political with that but 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 this sound. like this is the most i was down there months this is worse than the most. from a distance. right now. i mean this is. all. there. really everywhere i did write about the place. it's not the. 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 source in the powers of us go up in smoke a. famous overpressure in the pond. in reality the companies make. so much money from the oil but 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. garrison in charge of site surveillance got wind of our visit we spent several hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves to the higher ups over 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 in power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the old companies present in nigeria. in a sham trial and she 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 here selling yes i did visit. several music. one. of the results is of the. walk in nigeria companies are the ones as possible. because this is a problem. because they know that when government. gets other companies to articulate their programs that this is

a. protection permanently escorted celestin has no car no address and no children anyone who hinders or production in nigeria is under threat. death. the village of oak creek is even crossed by a highway of pipes that don't even bury.

a choice before sufficient. so. quick up in here fear of the theater. now running down to do or rush on to decide to do all of these areas there was a day we will call from state we saw fire bonnie evidence we don't know show came to. i did right shortest has all dead he sat on the trees fell dead. on here i used to fish we were fishing no fish. this is gone down for ever one day speech i sell disco i doubt he's been he's very. large do we see it is so with us because we are always afraid to damages and

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 a 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 the oil pockets are a further two thousand meters below the seabed. and

apocalyptic didn't pass condition a few months back a crane dragged three men into the sea one die. for the nigerians on board the wages are unique you earn a good living in oil whether you're black or white. it's a big country they've got a big bunch of feed you know that. it's a big country i bet yes poppy be. happy possibly. 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 umbilical cord fixed 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 fowls 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 is now the christmas tree it's the wellhead and ridges and charges that was based on you since you have all response to. my. face. got. food if it was

a. christmas tree the big day to fight for the why this is it's what. was going on with the price i feel like simpson to us about barry's going oh we will be put to. profit but if. we do this. this is. twenty feet first my street. that was started in two thousand and seven. 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 or. the feds or where. i would read in bed at the. door where. i went up are. three a good night they're fifty six. if you. specify what i was just thinking that that. i'm nuts about you yourself the less but as i speak doesn't like my place you know going in not doing it i've been a course. you can see how bonbon used to think like you can see ya bundle he's going to look like one or finishes will go. on. a money i'm bugles as you finish she's been done to go minutes where. he's not been right.

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