this enormous crofters 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 acco. as owner of a few kilometer square that represents a new eldorado. in the center floating like a queen bee a belly full of a treasure that the whole world covets is the flagship of the oil company total. and i have your ideas. on akpo we are far from everywhere but everything is checked.

on. this and you check all the facts. all the bags through this community even the people you know you've been working with or for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for mainly. to tissue anything that's about them. drugs guns knives. and a thing else that's. situated 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 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 linked together by pipelines that run through the

mangroves in the sea in every direction. today 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 and a maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. you're going to pay for his schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month we're where we're dealing here with large volumes of condensate which is very very flammable has more flammable. oil and also with large volumes of gas a type pressure. it's a kind of

a system so we kind of weeks before how it meets the sparkle sourceforge mission to the next thing you would have a fire and then you put a risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board could be disastrous it could be sisters. so we have to be careful here to be permanently on the alert which you pass through because i'm proposing to come to scrape initial two thousand and three hundred meters loma don't go there on this one if you're over storage part of. the name yes it was a float seeing. the storage offloading units. everything because it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process we don't stop but we sit and export gas first task

a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so what currently. that is they want the whole deck level so big. now we have towns so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size. corrosion of the decks. isn't close in at this level. it would be difficult to repay because just on the needs we have tax on oil so it will be possible to cuts out the well because all the risk all. suppose there. is another life here and then . it's just this with everybody. he said was more than enough means. for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and

highly risky structure. on board our two hundred forty men so completely lost in interlacing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the f.p.s. is 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. to nigerian navy patrol boat 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 as patrols and supervises all movements around the base . and. so here we have the. marine operations center where we are the whole of the arc. with this. i mean doing it which allows us to take all the boats arriving. 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 to thicken all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here you see and inside the . city looking to move to secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil isn't it. so on this on this is where the measures required to nigeria of the day considering the threats that exist is

a nigerian high risk the bordering the mehdi militia some sand. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. as in this case all night. 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 one no making your room they 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 hearts 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 gus to order fourteen call to raise new york dollars but not the one that upset the community nearby you know about it i mean anybody from the company

from. and this is you. know is this useful is with you. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that. twenty four 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 to world's rope shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger. what if you get a little we took our one. metal shop. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes yes there was a little boy with us how. about that

a white man these days but that it's very odd you. among us but 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 for cooking they gather 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. don't. use religion. economy to it i do some other fish imports. thinking doesn't know what that because of the devices in doing they are bored says

in as because i didn't. know what i should have been hearing with. dices in this guy sitting i think intuitively that why what i want to add not up until it up by the review was i didn't know what the. her. offshore from the village the f.p.s. so engineers and technicians continue to 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. and we can get something up that's relatively easy but if you so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria is that. this or this close we have to go deeper and deeper to find it 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. download the official application to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside t.v.'s not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v.

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water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs a lot to complain much every time we load our oil product onto a tanker we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. i say the blood of nigeria because it's their role material it's their problem you know what is it we're here to help them exploited and for me it's it's the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because if they do it it's because of their millions of years of history. because we have. peace. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white my this 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. he's back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest the major problems yeah. yeah. you know these would. run some protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show us i think that's where we move. if we will move. in the annual we are on closed so this is not the abundance in that they're fifty it's.

the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable the heat at five hundred meters is already unbearable i was thinking it was the forbidden gas like that yes that was the problem in. gaza and that's in two thousand and five but. not on that drug i'm sure but our government. does not want to put it to go with that but i thought it was you know the fed was against the laws of our country and this is like a monster so how it smells stinks and this sounds. like this is the most i was down there months but this is worse than the most i. see this from a distance. right now. i mean this is.

everywhere i did write about the. bad thing that this is the i mean this is. becoming like in my mind. 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 saw in the bowels of vietnam up in smoke today. that famous for the pressure in the pipe. in reality the companies make so much money from the oil that they don't even care about the gas they pump at the same time. these massive animals also create acid rain. the water from the sky is no longer drinkable. garrison in charge of site surveillance got wind of our visit but we spent several

hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves to the higher ups over the telephone. reputation and his work with amnesty international in particular allow us to get out of trouble. a former farm worker is a leader of most of the movement for the survival of the ogoni people its founder the writer. who denounced both the dictatorship and power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the old companies present in nigeria. in a sham trial in which he was accused of murder and despite the process stations and wonder of the whole world he was condemned to death and hanged along with eight other members of the movement. which companies are selling yes i did visit. several music.

one company there but so that is this is a big. walk in nigeria companies now the much as possible. of course brazil. because they know that when government. gets. the. programs that this is a. protection permanently escorted synesthete has no car no address and no children anyone who hinders or production in nigeria is under threat of death and. the village of a creek is even crossed by a highway of pipes that aren't even very.

we. take. the fourth question so watch. up on here fear of the theater. now running down to do or rush on to decide for good will of this area. that was the day we recall from so that we saw all the

evidence we don't know show came to. all of this i did right shortest was all dead he sat on the trees fell dead. on here i used to fish weasel fishing no fish don't want to golly if he's gone down for ever one day speech i shall discover doubts he's been he's very. large do we 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 a shell in nigeria. it's just the worst one amongst them. offshore total

allows us to go from installation to installation. jack ryan is a motionless vessel 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 if your 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. of the nigerians on board the wages are you me you earn a good living in oil whether you're black or white.

so big country they got a big bunch of fried 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 valve several stories high over that really have been damaged 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 a christmas tree which you know the christmas tree is so well had and ridges and jobs i was be so nice to see of all because i know. my. face. it was a. christmas tree would be days if i didn't spoil it for them. this is the. price i'm going to go back there with some to fires going up we will be put to. good investment. twenty feet first my street. was done if you go on a seven. by. seven day do. you have

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