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The One (m)
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9ja4eva
The issue of pollution is not as widepread as is being proclaimed. Any campaign will pick on a negative issue wherever they occur and generalize it to paint a very grim picture. I will not come up with figures because I don't have any official figures on this but I can tell you that pollution issues are isolated events. I told you in earlier posts how some of the pollution issues work. I'm not saying all the pollution is due to sabotage, NO, as some could be due to corroded flowlines and stuff but altogether they are still isolated events.
My dear, most likely you never been to the Niger Delta. I can't count the number of times I've been there. On EVERY occassion that I was there, I saw people fishing. The most prolific areas for fishing in the swamps are around the oil platforms, reason being that the fishes are plentiful because of the abundance of leftover food in the water. If the pollution is indiscriminate as you claim, is it not around the patform that it should be most prevalent? All the fishes there should be dead then?
It grieves me when I see the condition of the people and I try in my personal way to affect those I come in contact with but we are looking in the wrong direction i.e. the companies. It is criminal what the govt (state first, then federal) is doing and the agitation should be directed at them. It shouldn't be that they should be supporting somebody like Alams who stole them blind. I don't understand why any Niger-Deltan in his right mind will support Alams.
Hope I addressed your question?
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Afam (m)
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I did not attack your person, I only made an observation based on what I've noticed about you on different thread and even different blogs. You want an example? I know you've been touting the assertion that discovery fund yields more than all the risky high yield investments around and that is wrong but you come on board and announce it with all confidence. You could say it could prove to be more durable but it definitely doesn't yield more!! That baffles me and makes me wonder!  Again, where did the false accusation above come from? I am sure that in my whole life I have never gotten into any arguement/discussion about discovery funds not to talk about comparing it with anything or is the writer in a hurry to cast aspersions even when there is no basis? What responsible people do when they make a mistake is to acknowledge them, correct them and move on. To tell you the truth which obviously you won't hear anywhere, the only places that have 24 hrs constant electricity in Nigeria are communities around oil company installations. You will not know that because you sit in the US or UK or wherever and echo whatever comment is posted on the forum whether for or against. Abi na McDonalds dey give you light for where you dey? At least there's no way you won't have McDonalds in whatever city you are in.
Please let's separate emotion and propaganda from this issue and face the facts.
Can you please list 2 or 3 communities around oil comapny installations in the Niger Delta that enjoy 24hrs electricity? @Donzman
I've had several run-ins with you in the past because i've been unwilling to tolerate your factless drivel. Where did you hear that Oil companies are currently paying bribes to the Government? It's an offence warranting outright dismissal for any Shell staff to pay bribes out, and there's an efficient reporting system so anonymous reports can easily be sent to the Shell headquarters in The Hague. Chevron, Elf and Mobil have similar systems in place. It's a pity most of us buy into the propaganda war so easily. Even though there is no official backing or support for bribes the oil comapnies do pay bribes in some cases. Have you been to a typical export line where the meter prover (the most accurate flow meter to record exactly what is being shipped out) is located? Who crosschecks what the oil companies state? How many government agencies are supposed to be there to confirm readings? Bribe can be offered (of paid when demanded) to speed up processes like permits, inspections, getting decisions made on time etc. From DPR to NAPIMS to NNPC the story is the same. So, while policies may frown at such practices in reality it is done. Just like in every establishment there is usually a disconnect between the official position and what obtains in reality. Even the official position of the Nigeria Police Force on bribe is clear, they don't tolerate it and will fire anyone caught doing it but what do we have in reality? Things go wrong in the oil and gas because some of our fathers, uncles, brothers ask for an collect bribes to be able to send their children to school abroad or to private ones in Nigeria and the oil companies are usually eager to comply as their primary aim here is to maximize profit, not promote a corruption free society. |
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FACE (m)
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@ The One, do you then concede that the oil companies have responsibilities to protect the environment and to carry out remediation where necessary to safe guard the health and safety and means of livelihood of the inhabitants of their operational areas? If the oil companies have the duty of care in those areas, it follows that they should be held responsible for any destruction of property, environment and means of livelihood resulting from their operations and as such should provide alternative facilities and also pay compensations where necessary. I also find the statement below a bit ambiguous and my response to it is based of my understanding of the statement: Who told you "they have destroyed all the communities in the region"? Have you ever been to the Niger Delta? Do you know how big it is? Do you know what percentage of the entire Niger Delta land mass has oil company presence? The delta is a chain of estuaries of diverging branches of the mouth of a river, and what affects one part can easily affect the other parts of the delta, therefore the size of the delta is irrelevant as per the effects of pollution. If for example our territorial waters are barricaded by some world power, do you think that those in Sokoto would not feel the effect because they live so far away from the sea in a vast country? I don’t think so. No my brother, Shell share holders panic each time they lose functional oil wells. If they lose as little as 10% of their business, the value of their business falls alongside the market value of their shares, how much more if the lose 40% ? We should not feel that they are doing us favours as they are not there for charity. We should be able to enforce/strengthen our environmental laws and they will have to adjust to operating within the scope of our laws. BP had to shut some of its Alaska operations in 2006 because of oil spills. Why should it be any different in Nigeria? McDonalds do not provide electricity in their areas of operations, but they do face heavy fines if they cause untidiness in those areas. They have the duty of care to maintain the environment in which they operate. I do agree with you that the various arms of government have failed the people and should have most of the blame, because it is the government’s responsibility to provide infrastructure to the people. I also agree that greed and the nefarious activities of some people within the areas are major set backs for any meaningful development. @texazzpete There are effective reporting systems in many organisations, but that does not prevent people from trying. Even in the US senate and British parliament, people have been nailed for bribery from time to time. How about the Halliburton bribe scandal? Regarding EIA, if the recommendations of a true EIA are followed, there would be no oil waters. The primary function of EIA is to provide assessment to enable preventive measures and not to provide a platform for compensation negotiations. A method statement or operational procedure is adopted following such assessments and if accidents happen during operations, the facility owners are duty bound to remediate land or water and to indemnify those affected. EIA is a worthless exercise if recommendations are not followed. |
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The One (m)
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Afam, concerning communities that have 24 hrs electricity, find the list below: 1) Commuities around Chevron's Abiteye flowstation 2) Communities around Chevron's Makaraba platform 3) Communities around Chevron's Opuekeba platform. You said three, I've mentioned three. The first two are in Delta state, the last one is on the Delta/Ondo state boundary. There a lot more communities that enjoy constant electrcity. Communities arounf Bonny for instance. I apologize if I've mistaken your identity for someone else's but if you look at the links below, you'll see where someone called Afam advocated for the discovery fund. http://www.dipotepede.com/2006/08/28/nospetco/http://deoluakinyemi.com/2007/01/11/nospetco-how-much-longer/Sorry for the fallacy of improper assumption, I assume you patented the name "afam" on all these blogs like I did mine.  |
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The One (m)
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Face
Of course the companies have a duty to protect the environment wherever they operate. I don't think I ever said anywhere that they don't. And yes, they are usually held responsible for any pollution that occurs that is not due to sabotage. Nobody will come to nairaland to come and announce that they just collected compensation for any pollution would they?. I know that these compensations are paid, you might not know it. I've been trying to attach a picture here showing how flowlines were cut up into neat piles regardless of whatever pollution was caused and were going to be hauled off for sale but it just wouldn't attach. Is it the companies that go around cutting up their flowlines? You guys don't know how prevalent this thing is but it is very prevalent!!
Whenever you have a line rupture whatever the cause, production is usually shut down until they are fixed. So the issue of BP is the same that happens in Nigeria. All in all, I think we agree on a lot of things
Cheers
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Afam (m)
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Afam, concerning communities that have 24 hrs electricity, find the list below: 1) Commuities around Chevron's Abiteye flowstation 2) Communities around Chevron's Makaraba platform 3) Communities around Chevron's Opuekeba platform. You said three, I've mentioned three. The first two are in Delta state, the last one is on the Delta/Ondo state boundary. There a lot more communities that enjoy constant electrcity. Communities arounf Bonny for instance. I apologize if I've mistaken your identity for someone else's but if you look at the links below, you'll see where someone called Afam advocated for the discovery fund. http://www.dipotepede.com/2006/08/28/nospetco/http://deoluakinyemi.com/2007/01/11/nospetco-how-much-longer/Sorry for the fallacy of improper assumption, I assume you patented the name "afam" on all these blogs like I did mine. I will ask around concerning the communities stated as I do not know anything about Chevron's activities. Apology accepted on the mistaken identity issue. I was surprised as I never discuss issues I don't understand. We shall always agree or disagree on issues so take objections lightly as we will all benefit from them. I am in agreement that the oil companies are not responsible for infrastructural development as that lies with the government at all levels. |
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texazzpete (m)
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There is merit in most of the arguments tabled here so far, i'm glad this has so far progressed on an intellectual level befitting the topic.
I don't have much time to type, but i plan to tackle the issue of gas flaring at an opportune time. If anyone has any positions on this subject let's air it.
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Seun (m)
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The government should tax the oil companies at the same rate on the price of the oil and gas they come accross. Once they are paying the same amount of tax on the gas, it'll be up to them to decide whether to flare it!  |
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LoverBwoy (m)
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The government should tax the oil companies at the same rate on the price of the oil and gas they come accross. Once they are paying the same amount of tax on the gas, it'll be up to them to decide whether to flare it! I wonder if you'D say the same thing if they were flaring it behind your house |
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Seun (m)
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If they are paying tax on that gas, they won't be willing to just burn it off. They will exploit it properly.
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Donzman (m)
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Asking me to provide proof that oil companies pay out bribes is like asking me to provide proof that Abacha was corrupt, utterly ridiculous.
It seems some people sit on their brains while dishing out silly arguments. An industry which has destroyed the traditional means of living for the natives have no responsibility to see they're developed?. . .Ridiculous!. . .I suppose you guys have a lot to teach the scholars who have time and time recommended Government/Oil Companies being more proactive in the development of the Niger Delta. no insults please
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The One (m)
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Donzman
I will not dignify your post with a response
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Seun (m)
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Excellent choice, the One. Let's keep this thread on track. Donzman: caution!
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Donzman (m)
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Sorry but it's really not sensible for anyone who has done even a little bit bit of research on the situation down in the Niger Delta saying the oil company have no responsibilities there. I mean people who live on fishing cannot fish no more for beginners, what kind of life is that?
I used to think like some people here who think people in the ND deserve what they get but I just did some in-depth research on this subject, I know better now.
Bribery is common practice in international business as much as people will like to deny that, that's the way it works.
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Afam (m)
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If they are paying tax on that gas, they won't be willing to just burn it off. They will exploit it properly.
All these while the oil companies pay penalties for every single cubic feet of gas flared, the problem is that the penalty is not high enough for the companies to willingly look for ways to take care of the gas. |
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texazzpete (m)
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I wrote this some time ago on Chxta's blogI didn't take time out to proof-read or check for errors, and the target audience was to laymen in general, but it gives you an indication on what i feel about gas flaring. . .
Chxta
nice piece, but i'D like to correct the statement you make about oil companies doing a half hearted effort to stop gas flaring.
see, we've got two kinds of gas coming from down below; Associated Gas (AG) and Non Associated Gas (NAG). in simple terms, AG is the gas that comes out when oil is extracted( from gas dissolved in the oil or from gas caps), NAG comes purely from gas reserves alone (these are layman's definitions o!).
anyway, the gas being flared is 99% AG, because no one would want to tap and produce a purely gas reservoir just to burn it up. Nigeria has an OPEC quota to meet, and major oil companies have to keep producing oil to meet that quota and make cash for themselves! Our increased production translates into cash for Nigeria, which means 13% derivation gets bigger bla bla bla.
There's no way to prevent the production of some quantity of Gas with oil, except we cease production altogether. and we can't do that, can we? so we have to find a way to handle this gas.
Nigeria's civil infrastructure is so poorly planned, no one saw fit to provide underground Gas mains and pipes, so we can't process and distribute this gas to every household. Many people don't even use cooking gas anymore. The gas power plants can only take so much gas, NLNG gets all the reliable gas supply from purely gas wells, and this has to be because there are contracts signed years ahead for the stable supply of gas to the LNG plant. besides, the plant has a finite capacity and can only take so much. Even if the gas could be piped, many producing locations are so far away that building pipelines to convey the gas would be an immense financial and engineering task. add that to the problem of getting permission to route pipelines through communities without being beaten/extorted. pipeline harvesting and vandalism are also rife.
so we have lots of gas being produced without any means of disposing of them. it would be unthinkable to vent these gases in the atmosphere so we just have to destroy it by trying for complete combustion of the gases through flaring. hence the numerous gas flares.
the federal government has given a 'flares down' target to the oil companies, and they are struggling to comply in time. Power plants are being built to consume some more gas, pipelines are being built to route and gather the produced gas, the capacity of the NLNG plant is being increased, and more and being built to handle more and more. But this isn't enough yet. we need more consumption of the gas in nigeria. meanwhile, millitants attack and community troubles delay the implementation of many of these projects and vandals disrupt pipelines. the vandalisation of the gas pipeline supplying the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) meant that more gas still remains unconsumed and must be flared. service companies are afraid to go to work inthe niger delta for fear of kidnapping.
Through it all, the Nigerian government remains pristine, the nigerian people remain unstained by these failings, preferring instead to point accusing fingers at the major players inthe oil and gas industry. If we vandalised less, threatened less and even heckle the federal government to do more to promote local gas consumption, we'D be better off. at least Shell has taken over the Afam power station and is improving and expanding it to consume more gas and produce more electricity for Nigerian consumers. In the PR war, the federal government constantly blames the oil companies, coming out cleaner than clean. it's a joint venture and the federal government always is tardy to play its part.
Meanwhile, the hunt for new oil continues, and invariably with the oil, some dissolved gas is liberated,increasin g the problem. The federal, state and local government (and even the niger delta) benefits greatly from this windfall. but the gas becomes a problem for the oil Majors.
That's Nigeria for you. Vintage Nigeria!
So there you have it!
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Afam (m)
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@Texazzpete,
Very good piece.
But in reality all the oil companies in Nigeria can stop the gas flaring and take care of the Associated Gas.
OSO/NGL Gas recovery project (Then Mobil) in Bonny Island embarked on such waste to wealth project by building a technically advanced 50,000 barrel per day natural gas liquids fractionation, storage and loading facility.
Atleast we really do not have problems with methane or even ethane since no one is really siting gas wells yet.
Here propane and butane are extracted and sold while the pentane plus is stored and I believe serves as one of the main fuel for the turbines in that plant.
It all depends on enforcing policies already put in place to make these things work.
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texazzpete (m)
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@Afam,
Thanks!
Now to reply, you must understand that many oil wells are in relatively remote areas, and the cost of transporting this to AGG plants (and even building AGG plants in itself) is high. Many times the same federal government fails to live up to their financial obligation as partners in the JV. Add to this the settlement, the court cases etc the communities such pipelines will travese will throw up in their faces and you get an idea on how difficult it is.
Projects like the bonny LNG and the upcoming LNG plants (e Brass) should serve to utilize AG, but they're expensive and time-consuming to build, and that's what is going on now.
@Seun, LoverBwoy
gas that cannot be used and stored must be disposed of, and the best possible way is to flare it. If we could achieve complete combustion, we'D have no problem. sadly, complete combustion is unachievable, hence pollutants are generated. But until Nigeria finds a way to use more gas, we'll keep flaring.
I think the ratio of households that use cooking gas in nigeria should be 1 in every 1000, most people have switched to Kerosene, Hot Plate or Abacha Stove!
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Sijien (m)
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even if we lay pipes all over nigeria so gas will get to peoples houses some one will sabotage it.
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The One (m)
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Oil companies should stop flaring the gas, AGREED. That is what all the companies are working towards with the deadline being next year. Or do people want them to perform magic? You guys don't know how difficult it is to carry out any project in the swamps of the Niger Delta now. The technical aspect is minute, your main problem is security and logistics. You'll have nightmares incorporating all these into your work plan.
Donzman,
I repeat, who told you they can't fish no more? You sit in Canada and come to your conclusion while people that have been on the ground tell you things and you stubbornly hold your position. Are you telling me your research on the internet supercedes what I see with my korokoro eyes?
Guy, learn to be able to open yourself to ideas that challenge your beliefs.
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degoat
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Very important issue and interesting topic; I need more research to contribute.
Keep it going guys.
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betantee (m)
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I agree 100% with this, people blame the oil companies without looking at the nature and process of interactions concerning the development in the the Niger Delta.A lot has been revealed from my current reseacrh work on this.
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9ja4eva (m)
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@ The One
Yu right kind of.Its sad though to know.
@texazzpete
Yu right.South South Governors like Odili,Ibori,Goodluck,Attah and d likes are responsible for Niger Delta Development.If they had used money allocated to their various States like Donald Duke did every community would have benefitd immensely.Its rather sad dt we vote thieves in as governors.God will question this heartless people.
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naijacutee (f)
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*Subscribes to thread*
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9ja4eva (m)
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Lets c what happens come May 29th.
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segoye2 (m)
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@ Thread Author,
I read through your post, was well written. 1st I will say if our government is really caring, well to do, reliable, and responsible, and then, only then, they can stop all the oil nonsence going on in their, and the unfair treatments melted on our poor people of the Niger Delta.
And on the other hand, they are part of the government, so they are part of the problems of the Niger Delta.
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ono (m)
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I wrote this some time ago on Chxta's blogI didn't take time out to proof-read or check for errors, and the target audience was to laymen in general, but it gives you an indication on what i feel about gas flaring. . .
Chxta
nice piece, but i'D like to correct the statement you make about oil companies doing a half hearted effort to stop gas flaring.
see, we've got two kinds of gas coming from down below; Associated Gas (AG) and Non Associated Gas (NAG). in simple terms, AG is the gas that comes out when oil is extracted( from gas dissolved in the oil or from gas caps), NAG comes purely from gas reserves alone (these are layman's definitions o!).
anyway, the gas being flared is 99% AG, because no one would want to tap and produce a purely gas reservoir just to burn it up. Nigeria has an OPEC quota to meet, and major oil companies have to keep producing oil to meet that quota and make cash for themselves! Our increased production translates into cash for Nigeria, which means 13% derivation gets bigger bla bla bla.
There's no way to prevent the production of some quantity of Gas with oil, except we cease production altogether. and we can't do that, can we? so we have to find a way to handle this gas.
Nigeria's civil infrastructure is so poorly planned, no one saw fit to provide underground Gas mains and pipes, so we can't process and distribute this gas to every household. Many people don't even use cooking gas anymore. The gas power plants can only take so much gas, NLNG gets all the reliable gas supply from purely gas wells, and this has to be because there are contracts signed years ahead for the stable supply of gas to the LNG plant. besides, the plant has a finite capacity and can only take so much. Even if the gas could be piped, many producing locations are so far away that building pipelines to convey the gas would be an immense financial and engineering task. add that to the problem of getting permission to route pipelines through communities without being beaten/extorted. pipeline harvesting and vandalism are also rife.
so we have lots of gas being produced without any means of disposing of them. it would be unthinkable to vent these gases in the atmosphere so we just have to destroy it by trying for complete combustion of the gases through flaring. hence the numerous gas flares.
the federal government has given a 'flares down' target to the oil companies, and they are struggling to comply in time. Power plants are being built to consume some more gas, pipelines are being built to route and gather the produced gas, the capacity of the NLNG plant is being increased, and more and being built to handle more and more. But this isn't enough yet. we need more consumption of the gas in nigeria. meanwhile, millitants attack and community troubles delay the implementation of many of these projects and vandals disrupt pipelines. the vandalisation of the gas pipeline supplying the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) meant that more gas still remains unconsumed and must be flared. service companies are afraid to go to work inthe niger delta for fear of kidnapping.
Through it all, the Nigerian government remains pristine, the nigerian people remain unstained by these failings, preferring instead to point accusing fingers at the major players inthe oil and gas industry. If we vandalised less, threatened less and even heckle the federal government to do more to promote local gas consumption, we'D be better off. at least Shell has taken over the Afam power station and is improving and expanding it to consume more gas and produce more electricity for Nigerian consumers. In the PR war, the federal government constantly blames the oil companies, coming out cleaner than clean. it's a joint venture and the federal government always is tardy to play its part.
Meanwhile, the hunt for new oil continues, and invariably with the oil, some dissolved gas is liberated,increasin g the problem. The federal, state and local government (and even the niger delta) benefits greatly from this windfall. but the gas becomes a problem for the oil Majors. That's Nigeria for you. Vintage Nigeria! So there you have it! This is the write up of an insider. But I should correct your statement as regards NAG (Non Associated Gas). NAG are gas accumulations trapped in purely gas reservoirs - as against your NAG comes purely from gas reserves alone . NAG in itself is purely gas. You should know that reservoirs are natural geologic structures that holds oil/gas in place until oil wells are drilled into them to exploit these accumulations. Talking about gas reserves is a different issue entirely, and I don't think I'll want to dwell on that at this time. I just thought our people on this forum should be well informed. Most of us have been talking technical here. I personally know what's happening at Afam, OKLNG, Obigbo, Oso, Brass and Bonny. As a matter of fact, I know the volume of gas each of the JV partners in the Bonny LNG project contributes to the palnt on a daily basis. I will not discuss the bits and pieces here. It's against my company's policy. A bit of who should do what and at what level has been discussed too. You all fail to realise that the Niger Delta people now know what is going on in their lands. They are not happy one bit. Except the injustice meted out to this people is addressed, we will continue to have pipeline vandals on the prowl. Saboteurs will continue to plague the oil industry! Address the problems we have with the owners of the lands and all will be well. You can pipe your gas to Sierra Leone or the Gambia or anywhere. Just make sure you carry along the people whose resources you're tapping and all will be well. |
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texazzpete (m)
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@ono thanks for the correction. I was so caught up in writing this in layman's terms (wrote it as a reply on chxta's blog), i don't know how that error slipped out. I should know better  I agree with what you said; these guys need to be carried along, they need to feel the impact of the oil money on their lives. I feel the Government is largely responsible for this. I'm currently on location in the south-south, and it pains me to see how these guys right now are scrambling for political power and prostituting themselves for politics, without a care if the beneficiary is going to bring positive change to their lives. When these people realize that their choices of leaders influence how much impact the 13% derivation has on their lives, they'll see progress. Until then. . . |
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moroni (m)
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 How interesting 2c how we look at issues.
First of all we in nigerdelta need a better deal both from the government and oil companies.shell and co routinely pay money to the local chievies who rather than get the amount stipulated by the contract take something less,that way they can say shell and co payed, and shell and co can pay less than the contract requires.
The reason i feel the oil companies are targeted is in the fact that the they pay revenues 2d government,for that reason they are part of the problem.If u can't get to the government then get to their agents.
Our state governors are also legitemate targets and will eventually become so as the crisis proceeds.When the government is deprived of their revenues from the oil companies they will in the long term consider the plight of the NIGERDELTANS. THE GOVERNMENT IS ADOPTING THE INFAMOUS "DIVIDE AND RULE"TACTICS OF THE FORMER COLONIAL MASTERS.Nigeria is a colony not a country. I WONDER HOW MANY OF U ARE NIGER DELTANS ANYWHERE
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texazzpete (m)
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@moroni
I fail to see how multinational oil companies in Nigeria to do business efficiently and economically and make a profit are 'agents' of the federal government.
and take it from me, the bulk of the monies paid out by Oil companies in Nigeria today goes not to chiefs, but to 'youth leaders', 'youths' and 'activists' who routinely use their rabble rousing powers to shut down work at oil installations and make fantastic demands. usually, it is far more costly in terms of Non Productive Time to ignore their demands, so they usually get some form of payoff.
If you, as you say, deny the federal government of its oil revenue, are you so blind that you cannot see that simulataneously you're starving the south south of its oil revenues too? or are you so morally corrupt that you cannot see the injustice in seriously hampering oil exploration and production of these companies while your state cheerfully extracts the same taxes from these companies?
Ask yourself, what can be done to develop my state, and ask yourself if truly the billions these states get in 13% derivation isn't enough to seriously reduce the level of poverty in your state. also ask yourself why your state governments haven't been taken to task over this issue yet.
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ono (m)
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Oil companies should stop flaring the gas, AGREED. That is what all the companies are working towards with the deadline being next year. Or do people want them to perform magic? You guys don't know how difficult it is to carry out any project in the swamps of the Niger Delta now. The technical aspect is minute, your main problem is security and logistics. You'll have nightmares incorporating all these into your work plan.
Donzman,
I repeat, who told you they can't fish no more? You sit in Canada and come to your conclusion while people that have been on the ground tell you things and you stubbornly hold your position. Are you telling me your research on the internet supercedes what I see with my korokoro eyes?
Guy, learn to be able to open yourself to ideas that challenge your beliefs.
The One, Have you thought about how peaceful it would be to execute projects in the delta if the federal authorities had followed due process in gaining entrance into any location in the delta? 1) Due process requires that the FG should not lay claim to anything anywhere in the delta, except with the consent and approval of the elders and people of the area 2) Due process requires the FG to bring whatever proceeds they have from the sale of the resources of that area to a round table where allocation of the proceeds would be shared according to a sharing formula stated by the owners of the area only3) Due process requires the FG to make the area where oil companies operate to be safe for everyone 4) Royalties and other benefits that goes with oil exploration ought to go to the people of the area where the resource is gotten from and not to some thieves in Abuja If we have followed the paths stated above, we would have peace and there would have been no need to fight militants in the creeks of the delta. Don't talk about leaders of the area because the present crop of leaders were foisted on us by the powers that be. That said, your claims that we can still fish in the delta is true. But that's just a limited number of places comparedto what's obtainable in the past. The ecosystem in the delta has been altered. A large portion of the area is polluted - mind my words, a large portion, not all the area. And we have to fight now to get our environment back to what it used to be, or else, we shall all die from pollution. |
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The One,
Have you thought about how peaceful it would be to execute projects in the delta if the federal authorities had followed due process in gaining entrance into any location in the delta?
1) Due process requires that the FG should not lay claim to anything anywhere in the delta, except with the consent and approval of the elders and people of the area
Due process? When did you realise that due process was needed? The people in the Niger Delta are suffering from what they supported in the past when they felt the FG was doing them a favour by setting them against Biafra. What goes around comes around, maybe the time is now for all to sing a new song. |
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