A lawmaker, Sen. Stella Oduah, has urged Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to put adequate metering system in place to enable Nigerians to know the country’s exact daily oil production.

Oduah, who is the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, told Newsmen in Abuja that a metering facility would also ensure leakages in the petroleum industry were blocked.

She expressed displeasure over NNPC’s inability to procure the device to adequately keep inventory of oil production in the country, many decades after it commenced.

According to her, it is shameful that several decades after oil was discovered in the country, it has yet to get a proper metering system.

The lawmaker said, “given the fact that crude is the mainstay of the economy, it is important to get adequate metering system to ensure accountability.

“I think it is a problem we should be ashamed to be discussing because in my view, they are problems that NNPC with all sense of sincerity, can easily resolve.

“I was employed in NNPC in 1983 and I was a member of a committee for commercialisation and reconstruction of NNPC at that time.

“The major issue we discussed, investigated and came up with solution to, was on how to ensure that we have adequate measurement of crude by having metering system in all the terminals.

“But, why is that still an issue to be discussed several years after?

“How do you not put in equipment that will give you accurate measurement of your product and this is the product that forms the basis of our budgeting?

“This is the crux of everything we do in this nation and every year, for the past 30 years and more, we are still talking about measurement as an issue.

“Even if we want to mirror it against any of the oil producing nation like U.S., UAE and others, it is just a simple problem,’’ she said. Oduah said,

“NNPC should be sincere to tell us why they are reluctant, and if not for interest, why will you not want to have proper measuring equipment on your terminals.

“How much are the equipment? For me, it is upsetting.’’

She explained that the equipment would enable Nigerians to know the flow of crude, “the quantity being exported, from which pipeline, where it is being loaded to and the volume loaded’’.

She added that the equipment would help to determine the back-up stock as well as challenges to be attended to, including the switching off of pipelines in the event of vandalism.

The legislator said that everything about tracking daily oil production could be done in NNPC offices by its officials, but that “they have to put in the equipment; they have to have the ICT.

“You cannot blindly stay there and wait for the operators to give you feedback. We do not know what we have because the NNPC and the DPR do not know.’’

On whether passage and assent to the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will tackle the problem, she said that it would go a long way in finding lasting solution not only to the metering problem, but for other challenges.

On the role of the National Assembly in ensuring that the right equipment are put in place, Oduah said that several reports that emanated from the assembly on the matter, indicted the NNPC.

She, however, assured that the 8th Senate would not rest on its oars in making sure that the right thing was done.

She called on the Federal Government to put the refineries in proper shape for adequate production of finished products in the country.

The lawmaker said that Nigeria had all it took to do turnaround maintenance for the refineries while getting value for money rather than exporting crude at cheap rate and importing finished product at exorbitant price.

“We do not get value for money. Nobody does what we do. If we put money together and do turnaround maintenance for the refineries, it will help all of us, and that is what we ought to do.

“The NNPC knows that what they are doing is wrong. We have equipment, we have an experienced workforce. In the 80s and 90s, the refineries were working.

“If one refinery is shut down, the others will be working, but now nobody thinks about rehabilitating those refineries.

“What are you going to do with all those experiences that these people have acquired? We were told then, that we had the best refinery technicians, the best refinery engineers,’’ she said.

On calls by some experts for establishment of modern refineries with better capacities, Oduah said while that was necessary, old ones should be put to use while plans were on for the new ones.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/need-meters-account-daily-oil-production-senator/

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What's wrong with Nigeria. I can hardly distinguish between stupidity and corruption anymore. After decades of being in business mere meters they won't get. Then we have the metering issue with discos. This is why I hate the government running business. If private operator was this dumb they would be out business.

She added that the equipment would help to determine the back-up stock as well as challenges to be attended to, including the switching off of pipelines in the event of vandalism.

Simple solution to lessen impact millitants they won't do.

Aunty Diezani, coman av a say

After all this yrs
Nigeria is a gangter nation

fraud country

What dafuq did I just read

How then did NNPC came up with the daily crude production figures for decades?

Haaba....This better not be true o or is it IOCs that has been giving us such figures?

But if it's true then better we start considering selling the country to those who can manage it better

TheFreeOne:

But if it's true then better we start considering selling the country to those who can manage it better

Nah sell the company not country . This news is true she isn't the first to bring this issue up. Also this isn't first I've even post a similar story.

Blue3k:


Nah sell the company not country . This news is true she isn't the first to bring this issue up. Also this isn't first I've even post a similar story.

Man that's terribly ludicrous.

With news like this how will outsiders see us? Makes one wonder if those calling the country not justified.

Blue3k:
What's wrong with Nigeria. I can hardly distinguish between stupidity and corruption anymore. After decades of being in business mere meters they won't get. Then we have the metering issue with discos. This is why I hate the government running business. If private operator was this dumb they would be out business.



Simple solution to lessen impact millitants they won't do.

See this One Nigeria supporter asking this strange question.

IgboSubmarine:

See this One Nigeria supporter asking this strange question.

Better to keep one's mouth shut and be suspected a fool, than to open it and have the suspicion confirmed. If you have nothing worthwhile to add to a discussion, why not just keep out of it? Must you pollute every single thread with your idiocies? Oh, I forgot, it's not like you and your ilk have anything worthwhile to do with your free time, which is why you have the freedom to constitute nuisances everywhere.

IgboSubmarine:

[s]See this One Nigeria supporter asking this strange question.[/s]

I already told you I'm for reforms so it's not strange.

Lol don't you tired of making daft statements. Unlike Biafrats I don't sit around worshiping human being like you do Kanu. Now go run and shout in street with rest of your comrades.

omohayek:

Better to keep one's mouth shut and be suspected a fool, than to open it and have the suspicion confirmed. If you have nothing worthwhile to add to a discussion, why not just keep out of it? Must you pollute every single thread with your idiocies? Oh, I forgot, it's not like you and your ilk have anything worthwhile to do with your free time, which is why you have the freedom to constitute nuisances everywhere.

It is shameful to see a One Nigeria supporter who believes everything is wrong with Biafra, complain about Nigeria


Since Nigeria is better than Biafra, why complain about Nigeria.?

tysontim:
I dont know whether this country is cursed, since how many years contracts for refinaries was awarded, up till now we are still at it.

Ordinary meter we no fit get, how we go take know the exact amount of oil? This means the IOCs are ripping us off cus the revenue is dependant on how many barrells they tell us we produce

Not just them. This same reason illegal refineries are able to steal oil. The military destroys these operations months or years after they began. We have laws on the books to sort this thing out but Neither Jonathan nor Buhari cared to implement this. How many billions of dollars were lost due to this is staggering.

IgboSubmarine:



It is shameful to see a One Nigeria supporter who believes everything is wrong with Biafra, complain about Nigeria


Since Nigeria is better than Biafra, why complain about Nigeria.?

All your comments reveal is that you are at least as lazy as you are stupid, as even a brief look through my comment history would have told you that I am the very opposite of a "One Nigeria supporter": the day you get your Biafra and I no longer have to put up with the likes of you, or deal with poorly educated northerners who think they have a right to run a country in perpetuity because they breed like rabbits, will be one of rejoicing on my part.

I never cease to be amazed by the sheer amount of delusion on the part of all of you who think most Yoruba people actually care enough about your doings to wish to interfere in any way with your Biafran fantasies, as if you brought anything to the table other than hatred, envy, bitterness and unceasing paranoia. The truth is that to the extent many of us care enough to even notice your hateful agitations, we are actually wishing you a speedy departure, and have no desire to tolerate your presence for a moment longer than we have to.

yes,we need prepaid meters.

everything is in place for good structures to lessen corrupt practises in Nigeria but the "forces" will fight to rubbish it...

NIN linked with BVN, TIN and Voters Card + every other electronic registrations (Sim registration, Drivers license, Insurance etc) I put together in one database helps to "read" the numbers of Nigerian citizens (plus other details)
still they refuse to allow it work to its full capacity.


A Failed SYSTEM

Zetra:
everything is in place for good structures to lessen corrupt practises in Nigeria but the "forces" will fight to rubbish it...

NIN linked with BVN, TIN and Voters Card + every other electronic registrations (Sim registration, Drivers license, Insurance etc) I put together in one database helps to "read" the numbers of Nigerian citizens (plus other details)
still they refuse to allow it work to its full capacity.


A Failed SYSTEM

Lol don't get rid of their ghost workers too quickly now.

Ï just tire for this people walai.

Abeg share prepaid meter before proceeding to this abeg.

This govt always have good plans but lack the zeal to execute it.

They refused to put metre not that they cant afford it but because they dont want to uncover the fraud that 70% of the so called south south oil is actually coming from Igbo land.

Blue3k:
What's wrong with Nigeria. I can hardly distinguish between stupidity and corruption anymore. After decades of being in business mere meters they won't get. Then we have the metering issue with discos. This is why I hate the government running business. If private operator was this dumb they would be out business.

Simple solution to lessen impact millitants they won't do.

Even though this is coming from a senator who should be more informed, what she's saying definitely doesnt sound possible. It might be a case of having obsolete metering systems, or a case of not having sufficient metering systems at every export point, but claiming that the NNPC has zero metering systems in place?... That sounds like a fairy tale.

obailala:

Even though this is coming from a senator who should be more informed, what she's saying definitely doesnt sound possible. It might be a case of having obsolete metering systems, or a case of not having sufficient metering systems at every export point, but claiming that the NNPC has zero metering systems in place?... That sounds like a fairy tale.

If our president can stay outside the country for so long without any explanation and without even a peep from our politicians anything is possible in Nigeria.

NNPC is corrupt beyond imagination you need to work there to know how much they steal from this country.

NNPC is the most corrupt organization in Nigeria.

woodcook:


If our president can stay outside the country for so long without any explanation and without even a peep from our politicians anything is possible in Nigeria.

NNPC is corrupt beyond imagination you need to work there to know how much they steal from this country.

NNPC is the most corrupt organization in Nigeria.

Corruption might entail reporting false daily/monthly/annual production figures, but telling me that process plants, flow-stations, terminals and refineries were designed and built without metering facilities? .. That's a story for the birds..

obailala:

Even though this is coming from a senator who should be more informed, what she's saying definitely doesnt sound possible. It might be a case of having obsolete metering systems, or a case of not having sufficient metering systems at every export point, but claiming that the NNPC has zero metering systems in place?... That sounds like a fairy tale.

Its sounds like a fairytale because what you don't know is bigger than you. This is the real deal. The truth no leader would tell you and which is going to possibly end the life of that minister.

Anyone who ever investigated this either disappears or found dead. You think oil money is a joke?

obailala:

Even though this is coming from a senator who should be more informed, what she's saying definitely doesnt sound possible. It might be a case of having obsolete metering systems, or a case of not having sufficient metering systems at every export point, but claiming that the NNPC has zero metering systems in place?... That sounds like a fairy tale.

She is right oo, all the figures are provided by the IOCs, Nigeria doesn't have its own audit independent metering system in place to check the IOCs..infact it been an ope secret that the IOCs always declare far far less than what the actually export with some estimates saying the declare just 1 in 5 barrels .

obailala:
Corruption might entail reporting false daily/monthly/annual production figures, but telling me that process plants, flow-stations, terminals and refineries were designed and built without metering facilities? .. That's a story for the birds..

I admire your faith in Nigeria. Let me ask you where do you work? If you have ever worked in any government owned establishment you will understand how fantastically corrupt these guys are and how often they are willing to sabotage the system for selfish gains.

mark2sunny:


Its sounds like a fairytale because what you don't know is bigger than you. This is the real deal. The truth no leader would tell you and which is going to possibly end the life of that minister.

Anyone who ever investigated this either disappears or found dead. You think oil money is a joke?

woodcook:


I admire your faith in Nigeria. Let me ask you where do you work? If you have ever worked in any government owned establishment you will understand how fantastically corrupt these guys are and how often they are willing to sabotage the system for selfish gains.

SalamRushdie:


She is right oo, all the figures are provided by the IOCs, Nigeria doesn't have its own audit independent metering system in place to check the IOCs..infact it been an ope secret that the IOCs always declare far far less than what the actually export with some estimates saying the declare just 1 in 5 barrels .

If we are saying the existing metering facilities have been damaged or sabotaged a long time ago, and that the NNPC hasn't bothered fixing them for obvious reasons (corruption and/or ineptitude), then that is understandable. But I honestly find it hard to believe that oil storage and offloading facilities were designed and built with zero metering capacity. Who approved such a design?

obailala:

Even though this is coming from a senator who should be more informed, what she's saying definitely doesnt sound possible. It might be a case of having obsolete metering systems, or a case of not having sufficient metering systems at every export point, [s]but claiming that the NNPC has zero metering systems in place?[/s]... That sounds like a fairy tale.

She said adequate metering system not zero metering. All she really saying is Nigeria doesn't have proper metering system to account for daily production. This issue was supposed to be solved with 2014 Weight and Measures Act. The act was supposed computerised metering system of oil wells. This where the majority of fraud takes place. Oil is siphon from well to pipeline.

Nigeria obviously does measure the crude that goes out for export. They use physical hand-dip measuring at custody transfer point. You can Google more stories about this issue it's no fairytale.

Sen. Stella Oduah, has urged Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to put adequate metering system

Blue3k:


She said adequate metering system not zero metering. All she really saying is Nigeria doesn't have proper metering system to account for daily production. This issue was supposed to be solved with 2014 Weight and Measures Act. The act was supposed computerised metering system of oil wells. This where the majority of fraud takes place. Oil is siphon from well to pipeline.

Nigeria obviously does measure the crude that goes out for export. They use physical hand-dip measuring at custody transfer point. You can Google more stories about this issue it's no fairytale.

Okay this makes more sense. I would have been dazed if there wasnt any capacity at all on the part of NNPC to meter production volumes.