Why it is on record
Built the Brass River terminal and the Okpai independent power plant (IPP). The 2011 OPL 245 / Malabu scandal — Eni and Shell jointly paid $1.1bn for the block, triggering a decade of cross-border anti-corruption litigation — is the defining accountability event.
Record held
OPL 245 / Malabu litigation: largest oil-bribery prosecution in African history (Milan court acquittal 2021, appeals continued).
Deep dive
Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) is the Eni-controlled operator of OML 60–63 in the onshore Niger Delta. Together with the Brass terminal and the associated gas system, it has historically been one of the four IOC joint-venture operators with NNPC (alongside Shell, Mobil and Chevron). The 2024 sale of NAOC to Oando — completing Eni's onshore exit and concentrating the company on the deepwater offshore — is one of the defining transactions of the 2020s Nigerian upstream realignment.