He added that NOSDRA and TotalEnergies did not spare any effort in tackling the pollution to minimise its environmental impact.
Production data obtained from Agip showed that the leak might cut its gas export by five million standard cubic meters per day (MMSCM/d).
Suspected vandals are said to have in April detonated improvised explosive devices on a gas pipeline in Azikoro community of Bayelsa.
A Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) to the incident site on September 5 and 6 concluded that the spill was caused by equipment failure.
Residents said the facility had been discharging oil and gas into the coastal environment for the past one week.
The fire at the site, which had forced surrounding vegetation to wither, is yet to be put out as at Thursday morning.
Seventy-seven oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria have debt obligations of N2.6 trillion to the federal government.
Bayelsa insisted it that NOSDRA and NUPRC were biased and “are playing a script in cahoots with AITEO.”
The Ijaw National Congress has berated Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company for poor response to the November 5 spill from its oilfields in Nembe, Bayelsa.
