Lillie Earth Intelligence is a satellite-intelligence company focused on crude oil infrastructure security in Africa. We turn open satellite data into operational alerts for the militaries, regulators, and operators that defend the pipelines, terminals, and creek networks producing the continent's energy.
"To protect Africa's critical energy and security infrastructure by turning satellite data into trusted, actionable intelligence — affordable, indigenous, and built for the people who act on it."
"To become Africa's sovereign satellite-intelligence company — the trusted eyes that help nations secure their infrastructure, waters, and borders on their own terms."
The Niger Delta produces a substantial share of Nigeria's crude oil and most of its national revenue. It has also bled an estimated $25.7 billion to oil theft, vandalism, and illegal artisanal refining over the past two decades. A sustained security and surveillance push has cut theft sharply from its 2021 peak, but those gains are fragile and reverse whenever the watch lapses. The region is mapped by satellites every six hours. The data exists. Turning it into timely decisions, and keeping the pressure on, is still the gap.
The gap is not awareness. SkyTruth detects oil slicks. NASA's FIRMS catalogs thermal hotspots. The Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission documents specific spill sites with coordinates. International journalists publish drone footage. None of this translates into a Nigerian Navy patrol boat being sent to a specific creek at 06:00 tomorrow. What is missing is the operational layer: knowing what to do with the data. That layer doesn't exist for the agencies that need it most.
Lillie Earth Intelligence was started to build that layer. Our first product, Lilliewatch, takes the same open Sentinel, FIRMS, and TROPOMI imagery everyone has access to, calibrates it specifically for Niger Delta theft signatures, and produces dispatch-ready alerts. Eleven Nigerian areas of interest are currently in production. The methodology has been independently corroborated against public records from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Shell, and the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission.
The company is named for our founder's daughter, Lillie-Michelle, born during the company's founding year. The naming is a quiet commitment to the long view that matters when you build something for the next generation rather than the next quarter.
The product is structured as a registered family. Lilliewatch is the family brand, with two sub-lines. Lilliewatch Onshore is the current live product, covering pipeline corridors, terminals, creek networks, mangrove, and coastal infrastructure across the Niger Delta. Lilliewatch Offshore is designed in the architecture and reserved for Year-2 build, addressing FPSO, fixed platform, sub-sea, and Exclusive Economic Zone surveillance. The sub-lines are designed to be complementary to NIMASA's existing Falcon Eye and Deep Blue Project coastal infrastructure rather than competitive with it: Falcon Eye sees the vessel offshore, Lilliewatch Onshore sees the upstream creek source, and Offshore closes the loop. The full architectural specification is the document ARCHITECTURE.md in the public repository.
Lillie Earth Intelligence is built by a founding team spanning the United States and Nigeria, pairing satellite engineering with on-the-ground legal, regulatory, and operational depth. Additional team members will be announced as the team grows.
We build for the patrol commander who has to dispatch a boat, not for the dashboard that looks good in an investor pitch. Every metric on the system is something an operator can act on.
We would rather miss a few real events than fire false alerts that erode operator trust. Calibration thresholds are tuned for precision over recall, with public confidence levels published per alert.
Detection logic is publishable. Sensor parameters are documented. When the system flags a site, the reasoning chain is traceable from raw satellite imagery to alert classification.
Our Nigerian subsidiary is the vehicle that bids for and serves Nigerian government contracts. Our Delaware parent is the structural foundation for international investment and partnership.
A two-entity structure: a US parent for international investment and partnership, and a Nigerian operating subsidiary for in-country operations and government contracting.
Lillie Earth Intelligence, Inc.
Delaware C-corporation. The legal vehicle for international investment, technology partnerships, and global intellectual property. Houses the founding team's equity, the option pool, and any future investor cap-table activity.
Lillie Earth Nigeria Limited
Registered in Nigeria, incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 with tax registration issued by the Nigeria Revenue Service. The operating entity that registers with NCDMB, the Nigerian Navy vendor system, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, and that bids for and delivers contracts to Nigerian government and oil-sector customers.
We are early stage and selective about who we engage with. If you operate, regulate, secure, or insure crude oil infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, we would like to hear from you.