Brass River In 2005 the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) was producing oil from 146 wells, and operated an export terminal at Brass River. Brass River Crude Oil is a sweet medium light crude. In the 17th and 18th centuries the Portuguese controlled the Brass River, which was closed to British traders and was an outlet for shipping slaves to the Americas. The town of Brass was inaccessible, reached only via the creeks. After 1807 the British began trying to suppress the slave trade. Don Pablo Frexas, in alliance with the chiefs of Brass and Bonny, was the main organizer of the
Brass River connected with the main Nun and Brass rivers by numerous winding rivulets. An account of the journey says, In 1838 the boats of H.M.S. "Viper" ascended the Brass river for about . They reported that it was wide, and deep. The banks were fringed with impenetrable mangroves. On the return voyage they were assisted by a current running at along the western shore. An 1842 report to the British House of Commons said that "Slaves may be taken from the Bonny to the Brass River, and are taken there; the Brass River is not under King Peppel, and separate treaties