Good News At Last...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has defended the Federal Government’s plan to transform illegal refineries in the Niger Delta into legal entities for proper integration of the youths in the region.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, argued that getting the youths to form consortia to set up 1,000 barrels per day modular refineries would get them off criminality and create jobs.
An illegal refinery is made up of smaller and mobile parts (skid-mounted) – that are more easily fabricated, and can be more quickly transported to site. They are scattered all over some Niger Delta swamp.
Their activities had resulted to crude oil loses to the Federal Government as the illegal refineries most often rely on stolen crude oil for operations.To bring lasting solution to the unrest in the Niger Delta, the Federal Government decided to recognise illegal and local refineries that dotted the Niger Delta and have them transformed into modular refineries.....

... http://www.guardian.ng/business-services/nnpc-defends-governments-stance-on-illegal-refineries/
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This is good news..
A very good motive.....
But I have my own questions, based on logistics:
1. How soon would this motive be implemented.??
2. What is that probability that the execution of this motive would be totally free of bribery, corruption, mismanagement of funds and resources, and negligence of duty.??

Government of the Cabals, by the Cabals & for the Cabals

olaoge:
Government of the Cabals, by the Cabals & for the Cabals

Thank God say no be only me dey see am

Billions of naira will be earmarked for the transformation. Youths will still NOT be employed. Is it not Nigeria again? Nothing wee come out.

I'm in support of this. Nice

PiccoloBrunelli:
Billions of naira will be earmarked for the transformation. Youths will still NOT be employed. Is it not Nigeria again? Nothing wee come out.

Hmm! Maybe you still don't know who Niger Deltans are. If you do you won't be saying that

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smartty68:

Hmm! Maybe you still don't know who Niger Deltans are. If you do you won't be saying that

But he is stating the obvious..
What he stated is just the way Nigeria is.

I am particularly worried about this move because the capital with which to fund the so-called consortia to be able to afford a modular refinery could be a major challenge.

From my findings, those illegal refineries are mere drums filled with stolen crude oil (from IOCs) using the principle of temperature differentials (of fractional distillation) to get a particular distillate (say PMS) while carelessly disposing of unwanted products thereby causing enormous environmental pollution.

If there exists guys who can be licensed to drill their own crude oil, then it's a welcome development but if not FG/NNPC should do something else for them.

Note: these N/Delta guys don't drill to get the crude oil trapped underneath earth surface as they burst pipelines belonging to IOCs and steal their crude oil. So, I wonder how the government plans to integrate them into a legal upstream sector.

SoNature:

I am particularly worried about this move because the capital with which to fund the so-called consortia to be able to afford a modular refinery could be a major challenge.

From my findings, those illegal refineries are mere drums filled with stolen crude oil (from IOCs) using the principle of temperature differentials (of fractional distillation) to get a particular distillate (say PMS) while carelessly disposing of unwanted products thereby causing enormous environmental pollution.

If there exists guys who can be licensed to drill their own crude oil, then it's a welcome development but if not FG/NNPC should do something else for them.

Note: these N/Delta guys don't drill to get the crude oil trapped underneath earth surface as they burst pipelines belonging to IOCs and steal their crude oil. So, I wonder how the government plans to integrate them into a legal upstream sector.

Wooww.
I wonder too