[ENI, through its Agip subsidiary, is the largest shareholder of Nigerian Agip Oil Company]

As soon as we received the information of suspected spill along Taylor Creek  2 flowline on 08/11/2015,...all the wells in NAOC Taylor Creek field ...have been closed, while proceeding to identify the source of the leakage and provide information to the Regulatory Agencies. A Joint Investigation Visit...was carried on the 11th of November. The inspection outcomes had shown that the cause of the spill was due to sabotage... NAOC has no record of debts owed to NAOC’s clean up contractors in this area as alleged...

The spill along 14” Ogboinbiri/Tebidaba pipeline at Okpotuwari was reported on 19/07/2015... [The] cause of spill was ascertained to be a leak from a clamp used to repair a previous leak spot and categorized as “equipment failure”. The volume of oil spilled was estimated at 100 barrels, for which appropriate cleanup has been already carried [out]...

[Regarding] events [that] occurred in 2014, NAOC has carried cleaned-up jobs in all those sites. At the date, clean-up jobs have been carried for more than 92% of the sites of spill reported in 2015 where necessary.