Owned by Total of France, the Amenam Kpono oil platform emerges from the Atlantic Ocean off the Niger Delta coast.
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Owned by Total of France, the Amenam Kpono oil platform emerges from the Atlantic Ocean off the Niger Delta coast.

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Photograph

Ed Kashi

Maker
American, b. 1957

Owned by Total of France, the Amenam Kpono oil platform emerges from the Atlantic Ocean off the Niger Delta coast.

From Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta


2006
Inkjet print, printed 2009
Overall: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Gift of Ed Kashi, 2009
2009.0205.0011
Inscriptions verso (grease pencil): Ed Kashi [signed] 3/16/09
TextNigerian workers and some expat oil workers on the Amenam Kpono oil platform off the Niger Delta in the Atlantic Ocean. This platform produces 125,000 barrels of oil a day for Total of France and employs approximately 90% Nigerians, but few from the Niger Delta. Increasingly the oil companies are trying to move their operations offshore, where it is safer from militant attacks.

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