it's like an island cut off from everywhere accessible only by helicopter. two hundred kilometers off the coast of nigeria a floating factory that is unique in the world as big as eight football pitches it's a foretaste of what the search for oil will become. this enormous trough is 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 land. submarines platforms and drilling vessels on a map a tiny rectangle named act. as the owner 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. i don't have your ideas.

on akpo we are far from everywhere but everything is checked. and you've checked all the facts it's all the bikes through this sort of community go up even the people you know you've been working with her for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for maybe. two tissue anything that's bound by drugs guns knives. this kind of thing else this bad. 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 insulters 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 he's 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. they are scheduled 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 the normal oil and also will have large volumes of gas at high pressure. it's a look at the system so we can hardly. have meat and there's a sparkle source of ignition of 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. thank you so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert for to you because you can't escape. the three hundred meters long and all but if you're over storage tanks. in the name yes so is the floating. storage offloading units woods

says everything because aig. 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 ask a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so what currently. that is that while the whole deck level so below. us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size. clothes and of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repay it because just on the needs we have. so it will be possible to couple of plots out so well. because of the risk of exposed that. is another life and then we have. rafts just in case of us so everybody.

he said was 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 troops fowles elbows through which floods 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 mcconnell 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 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. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so their operations center where we monitor the whole of the outpost real cool with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving so i can but who are you 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. all these cameras 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 my jury are the ordering of the mehdi militia sometimes. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. as in this case all night. are you armed here on board since it was on i'm not on. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have one no making your room that 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 weren't for 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. he didn't want. every day by did loading gust to order forty called the new york dollar note they were not at the community nearby you know about it i mean anything from the company from mobil and this you. know. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that. are going to follow every day steady 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. on it if you get a little we took our own. metal shop.

sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes yes there was a little boy with us. spotted the white men he says but it's very. common just like there are differing blood from us and all of us but the dog. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and 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 some of the

keys to the villages overpressure. these villages were. committed to it i do some of the fish imports. they were drinking does or was that because of the devices in the early. releases in has because i didn't. know what i should have been hearing that. this is in the i discussed it in the idea i think intuitively that why what i want to add not a party until later by that review was i didn't know what the others. offshore from the village the f.p.s. now engineers and technicians continue extract the oil fall 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 it is you. know i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something up that's relatively easy up and you so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria in the second. place after this close we have to go deeper and deeper to find it today over future major projects a situation of very great debt. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more technological evolution to go and get the oil even deeper out of the

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issues that so much given to each musician find the facts in the arab spring arab winter where does this great liberation project stand in the arab middle east and where is it going are the forces of react.

to the input from both them of course other aspects of very important for the commercialization of the soul of the got this it is you mustn't see i mean i mean these are water and oil because water doesn't cost much on oil because a lot of shows every time we load our oil products onto a tank 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 you know what is it we here to hell. from exploited and for me it's what is the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because it is to do is to it's because of the millions of years of history. we have.

and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just you know in an efficient white man 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. 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 a major problems yeah. yeah. you know. runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the old companies wants to show us something that we move. well and we will move.

from closed so this is not been done in saying that they're fifty it's. the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gas is insupportable five hundred meters it's already unbearable i was thinking it was forbidden for free i guess like that yes that i was there i was there probably. isn't that that's going to apply but i'm not on a bad drug i'm good but our government. does not have any political weight that. i thought it was you know. the laws of our country is this like a monster so smells stinks and this sounds. like this is the most was done this is worse than the most you can. see from a distance. right now you can see.

this is. all. there. ever with. regard to but the flip. side of. that this is the public this is. becoming like a madman. they are. 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 earth go up in smoke day. famous overpressure in the park. in reality the companies make so much money from the o'neill that they don't even care about the gas they pump at the same time. these massive panels also create acid

rain so that the water from the sky is no longer drinkable. garrison in charge of site surveillance court will have a visit we spend 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. for my farm work and send a stint as a 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. the ravages caused by shell the largest of the old companies present. 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. along with eight other members

of the movement. so. i did visit. several music. one. in nigeria companies are the ones as possible. because. this is a. synaesthete has no car no address and no children anyone who. is under threat of death. the village of oak creek is even crossed by a highway of pipes that don't even carry.

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or not to decide to do all of these areas there was a day we were called forms that we saw. everybody we don't know show came to. all of this advice your histories are dead he sat on the trees our dead. on here we used to fish we were fishing no fish. if he's gone down for ever when they speak i sell discovered that he's been he's very. large who would see it is so with us because they are always afraid to people damages and composition. yes.

we mustn't lump everyone together not all the companies behave or have behaved as badly as shell and 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 therefore pockets are a further two thousand meters below the seabed. an apocalyptic didn't pass condition a few months back a crane drag three men into the sea one die. for the nigerians on board the wages are you know you earn a good living in oil whether you're black.

so big as your big bunch of feet you know that. is the big country i go yes. 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 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 trees that when you cool it a christmas tree which you know the christmas tree is so well head and ridges and strong is based on you since you have all response to my. face. yeah. yeah. it was a. christmas tree they'd be there day to fight for. this . has been done with the price i feel like seventh son to us about fires going on we will be put to. good to do this

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