EPISODE 05 · Port Harcourt, Nigeria · BEHIND THE SYSTEM
The Engine Room
20 minTHE FILM
The oil under the Niger Delta fuels a nation. We went to the place that does the burning, to see what the ground gives and what it keeps.
Port Harcourt sits on the machinery that powers Nigeria — pipelines, flares, refineries, the unglamorous heavy infrastructure the whole economy rests on. We spend a week in the Garden City with the workers, the entrepreneurs, and the families who live beside the flame, tracing the gap between what the Delta produces and what its own people get to keep.
IN THIS FILM
- 01
THE PLACE
Port Harcourt — the Garden City of the Niger Delta, where the air carries the work.
- 02
THE PEOPLE
The pipeline hand, the market woman, the young engineer deciding whether to stay.
- 03
THE TECHNOLOGY
Oil and gas infrastructure up close — the heavy machinery a nation runs on, and the cost of keeping it lit.
