Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria on Monday began frantic moves to put out a raging fire which engulfed its Bomu oil well in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers state, barely one month after another inferno on Yorla Well-head 13, in same LG was put out.
The fire reportedly gutted the oil well on Sunday and the company mobilised on Monday to put it off.
Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt on Monday before visiting the site of the fire in Bomu, the Commander of the Emergency Response Team to the Bomu 6 fire, Mr. Akindele Ogunkoya, said the company had flown over the afffected area with a view to ascertaning what to be done in the shortest possible time.
He said the company immediately pulled the Emergency Response Team, which he heads, together on Sunday when the case was reported to it.
When asked to state the company�s findings so far on the incident, Ogunkoya noted �the only thing we have been able to do is taking an over-fly of the location, which will only give us a graphical idea of the incident.
�He said, �To give an in-depth and acceptable report on the fire incident will not be a task that only Shell can face. There have to be other stakeholders like the ministry of Environment, the people of the community and an independent expert before any report on the incident could be regarded as credible and acceptable.�