The Escravos River is a river in southern Nigeria. "Escravos" is a Portuguese word meaning "slaves" and the area was one of the main conduits for slave trade between Nigeria and the United States in the 18th century. The Escravos is a distributary of the Niger River, it flows for 57 kilometres (35 mi), ending at the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.[1][2] Chevron, a major US oil company, has its main Nigerian oil production facility at the mouth of the Escravos River.[3] This oil terminal pumps approximately 460,000 bbl/d (73,000 m3/d).
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- ^ THE HYDRODYNAMIC FLUXES OF THE ESCRAVOS AND FORCADOS RIVERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSPORT AND CIRCULATION PATTERNS OFF THE WESTERN NIGER DELTA, BY IBITOLA MAYOWA PHILIPS, NOVEMBER 2009
- ^ The Escravos Bar Project, By Reuben K. Udo, Geographical Regions of Nigeria, Page 60
- ^ Delta communities decry fresh oil spills from NNPC trunkline, 2016/10/13, SweetCrudeReports, ...An oil spill had occurred in these same communities on August 17, this year from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,...Gama-Zion community and into the Escravos River...