Herald47:
I read an article on the enugu thread and also on the nationonline news that huge gas deposit( 70% ) and some crude oil( 30% ) were discovered in nsukka,enugu state and it is estimated to last more than 50years.
Someone should please help me with detailed info,especially those within enugu.

Afam4eva:
Post your source.

Herald47:
I read an article on the enugu thread and also on the nationonline news that huge gas deposit( 70% ) and some crude oil( 30% ) were discovered in nsukka,enugu state and it is estimated to last more than 50years.
Someone should please help me with detailed info,especially those within enugu.

cleatoris:
Pls add abundant gold and diamond deposits to it.

adaweezy:

Yes i believe you are right it may not be at Nsukka exactly but around the area, The Igalas and the Igbos have been fighting for it for a long time

Herald47:
this is a serious thread,so don't derail it please.

garyaustin:
Yes there has been an open secret knowledge of crude oil deposits around Eha Alumona axis of Nsukka. I am writing as a complete Nsukka boy.

Herald47:
you are talking about iga oilfield in uzo uwani l.g.a of enugu,this one i'm talking about is in nsukka l.g.a,try google search and you find more details about it.

DerideGull:


No such thing is known. Besides, there should be no drilling even if it is truth.

cleatoris:
Pls add abundant gold and diamond deposits to it.

Nsukka residents seek exploration of
gas, crude deposits









•The abandoned site
A natural gas and oil well discovered about 50 years
ago at Ehalumona in Nsukka Local Government Area
of Enugu State has remained untapped since its
discovery.
The residents have expressed the desire to see
exploration activities at the site.
The natural gas and oil deposit in the area is said to
be in large commercial quantity and estimated to last
for over 50 years.
An indigenous oil and gas company, Seveen Energy
was said to have acquired the site for exploration but
abandoned it for what insiders called political
interference.
The vast gas site was first discovered by CGG
Company prior to the Nigerian Civil War in 1966. It
has been overgrown with weeds and left in a
deplorable state.
The untapped crude deposit found in abundance in
the area has traces of the same deposits in other
communities in Nsukka and also cut across local
governments in the area.
The areas that have traces of the crude deposits
include Obollo Ekeh, Ezebinagu, Isi Uzo, amomg
others.
The major base of the oil is in Ehalumona and it has
about 30% petrol and 70% natural gas deposits.
The residents of the oil rich communities have
expressed worry over the inability of the indigenous
company, Seveen Energy to carry on further
explorative activities since the Federal Government
awarded it since 2013.
The residents dislosed that the Seveen Energy
company had carried out a siesmic operation they
termed environmental impact assessment in February
2014 at the abandoned oil zone.
In 2008 the huge natural gas deposit attracted
Geokinetic Gas and Oil Plc, for further exploration of
the site but failed to continue.
A community leader, Cletus Akor disclosed that prior
to the Nigerian civil war in 1966, the oil and gas
deposits had earlier attracted CGG company where
they carried it’s first seismic exploration but couldn’t
continue as a result of the severity of the civil war.
The community youth leader, Oji Uzo expressed his
dissatisfaction over the abandoned oil-rich zone,
describing it as a waste of both human and capital
resources.
He said: “This type of thing should not be joked with.
Look at an endowment being overlooked, something
that would have been a source of employment
opportunities for jobless Nigerian youths is
overgrown by grasses. When this company first came
here, our youth were employed as labourers and some
worked in other lucrative positions, but look at how
delapidated it is, a treasure of a nation.
“They told us that they would test the natural gas
which they did and carried a half tanker of the crude
gas for test, but we have not heard from them again.”
Also, Mr. Jonathan Ugwuanyi disclosed that apart
from the Natural gas located in the area that there are
untapped natural resources like Gold, Coal, among
other resources located in the area.
The traditional ruler of Ezebinagu /Ehandiagu
communities, Igwe Daniel Ugwuanyi expressed his
belief that the company may begin exploration of the
natural gas soon.
He said: “If this gas deposit is explored, it will create
job opportunities for the people as well as a source of
revenue for the Federal and State government.”
He said that the gas deposit would likely foster the
construction of the much neglected Nsukka,
Ehalumona, Ehandiagu, Mbu-Ikem road,” he said.
He therefore apealed to the State and Federal
government to react positively to the abandoned huge
gas deposit located in Ezebinagu/ Ehandiagu
communities.

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VonBismark:
There's no oil in Enugu na coal Enugu get, close this thread mbok! Una dey find where una go put pipeline like leeches abi?

DikeOha882:
Speaking out of ignorance and envy, no Igbo state is without oil, go to Edda in Ebonyi state, oil was discovered there in 1926, In Enugu a boundary town UgwuOba between Anambra has a large deposit of gas.

VonBismark:
bro I'm an igbo guy, I know what u re saying, I just wouldn't like Enugu or any other SE state to be a reminiscent of what's going on in the SS where resources are being harnessed and the owners re marginalized while bearing the brunt of whatever side effect that crops up. Perhaps u misunderstand.

DikeOha882:
I don't care where ever you come from, I only care about the ignorance in your comment

cleatoris:
Pls add abundant gold and diamond deposits to it.

DikeOha882:
I don't care where ever you come from, I only care about the ignorance in your comment