"Nigeria: 8 Multinational Oil Firms Urged to Pay N34 Trillion As Compensation for Oil Spill", 28 June 2016

Eight multi-national oil companies operating in Akwa Ibom State have been dragged to the National Human Rights Commission Special Investigation Panel sitting in the state for the payment of N34 trillion as compensation for oil spill victims in the state. The oil companies involved are ExxonMobil; Shell Petroleum Development Company; Seven Exploration and Production Energy; Total E&P; Addax Petroleum [part of Sinopec]; Universal Energy; Mono-Pulo, and Oriental Energy. The Akwa Ibom Oil Producing Network laid the claims on Tuesday on behalf of the oil spill victims, including farmers and fishermen, before the special investigation panel on oil spills and environmental pollution...The petition...highlighted cases of oil spillages between 1998 to 2015‎...