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BeautifulMind2:
Beautiful pictures you missed during Onitsha Marathon

AmericanQuarter:
NNPC, Anambra Basin And The Search For Oil


For four decades, many Nigerians have been waiting for the news given the determination, energy and expense put into the search. The exciting news finally came on Friday, October 11, 2019 that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has struck hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani River Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin.

With proven crude oil reserves of over thirty-seven million barrels, about six thousand billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves and daily production capacity of two point five million barrels per day, Nigeria has never hidden her desire to increase the nation’s reserve base.

In fact, President Muhammadu Buhari restated this position on February 3, 2019 when he flagged off in Bauchi, the current exploration effort that has now resulted into a sweet find. He said that exploration in the frontier basins was a national imperative and a core policy thrust that must be sustained. The nation’s hydrocarbon basins are Niger Delta, Chad, Anambra, Gongola (Benue Trough), Benin, Sokoto and Bida.

Over the years, the country had concentrated in the Niger Delta basins for her oil exploration while leaving the other basins largely untapped. Even though experts have advised that the news be taken with cautious optimism until the volume of the find is determined. But it is gratifying enough to note that there is oil in the Upper Benue Trough, given the efforts put in the search. It is also hoped that the discovery would balance resource locations in the country and help to douse agitations in the Niger Delta.

NNPC’s focus should now shift to Anambra basin, which already has witnessed oil and gas discoveries but requires the same level of investment and energy. The first serious search for oil in Anambra basin started in 2004 when Orient Petroleum Resources was granted oil prospecting license and authority to construct a private petroleum refinery. In spite of the daunting challenges, which include the vicious politics of ownership between Anambra, Kogi and Enugu States, finance and choking economic environment, the company has trudged on.

It has executed extensive data acquisition, covering six hundred and forty square kilometers in the oil blocks, known to contain at least five hydrocarbon bearing fields. It is currently drilling two new wells and has increased its production from 3,000 to 10,000 barrels. According to Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), a state can only join the league of oil producing states when its production company produces at 120,000 barrels and graduates from oil prospecting to oil mining lease.

The prospect of Anambra attaining this status was enhanced recently when Sterling Exploration and Energy Production Company (SEEPCo), started an exploratory drilling activities in Ogwu Ikpele in Ogbaru local government area. Part of the oil blocks lies in Ogwu Ikpele and the rest in Rivers State.

In 2018, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) revalidated the drilling permit granted to SEEPCo to “drill Enyie-2 as first appraisal well in Ogwu Ikpele. The company was making progress and had reached a critical stage until May 8, 2019 when the member representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency at the eighth House of Representatives, raised an alarm that an illegal oil exploration was going on in his constituency.

Through a motion, then law maker urged his colleagues to pass a resolution ordering a halt to the activities of Sterling Oil, insisting that the “oil exploration by the company was illegal. The House, consequently, passed a resolution to stop the drilling activities at Ogwu Ikpele and mandated its committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) and Environment to visit the community and report back. Unfortunately, the tenure of the 8th National Assembly ended on June 9, 2019. Apparently acting on the resolution of the House, on June 18, 2019 stopped Sterling’s operations.

The Honourable member might have led the House to act ignorantly. First, the drilling was not illegal as Sterling Oil is a registered operator with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and has a valid operating mining lease. The misunderstanding was quickly resolved through the intervention of Governor Willie Obiano and SEEPco has since resumed full operations.

[b]Anambra State has been working assiduously to attract the needed investment that will increase the volume of exploration. Some of the concrete actions taken by the state include the construction of Aguleri Otu road leading to the wells and engagement with the National Boundary Commission for an amicable settlement of the dispute with Kogi and Enugu States. With the expected shift of NNPC’s gaze to frontier basins, it is most likely that the economic status of the state is set for a drastic change.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/nnpc-anambra-basin-and-the-search-for-oil/amp/

ANSMEDIA:

- Nnewichi Erosion Control Works.

We are live at the construction site for the control of 2km.50ft dept gully erosion at Nnewichi - Nnewi.

Recall, Gov. Willie Obiano was here on 28 November, 2018 and flagged off the erosion control works.

Barely one year after, see what we've got here; a controlled gully with other works still ongoing (see photos)

Moreover, the project is being funded through a partnership between the Anambra State Government and NEWMAP (Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project).

Thank you Gov. Willie Obiano for fighting this earth eater to a standstill.

Credit: Obika

raker300:
Installation of cctv on the streets in anambra

mktinsight:
Maybe they need to get control of the chaos at UNIZIK junction before talking about CCTV. Look at the madness of street trading, illegal bus parking there. Clearly ATMA not doing their job.

AmericanQuarter:

I was privileged to be among the team that visited a potential site for a history making legacy project of Chief Willie Obiano's administration.

With the Anambra State Ministry of Health Team on the drivers seat, I visited with high ranking officials of the ministry of lands and ANSIPPA. Destination was industrial land Ozubulu. I learnt that the administration is planning to establish a pharmaceutical industrial park like it was done on Killanto Ethiopia.
A park that is home to various fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies.
Such a project will not only deliver create multiple jobs in ANAMBRA STATE but will also leave a solid footprint on Google map when it comes to notable industrial clusters in the world. I learnt that the Nigerian Association of industrial Pharmacists and United States Pharmacopoeia are potential partners in this project. Remember that most of the big names in pharma manufacturing call Anambra home.

The park will have modern facilities to support a cluster of this nature and also access to it's own power supply.
The spin offs from a project of this size will be numerous. I will keep you posted as this project develops.

God bless Gov Willie Obiano for his visionary leadership.
God bless Dr Vincent Ogochukwu Okpala for his Innovative ideas. God bless APGA for stability of association and God bless Anambra State, my beloved state.
We are making Progress.

Credit: Onunkwo Kizzito-Suya

raker300:
Nnewi and environs

AuntLaVIV:
How many times are you going to post this same internet pictures that only you knew where you go them from. Please we need people on ground and not the constant internet pictures you keep posting here. Copy: ansmedia, Anambralstson, Americanquarter, beautifulmind.

raker300:
thats nnewi. You can see the mall in the last pic..

calm down

AuntLaVIV:
It doesn't matter if it is Nnewi or not. The point is that you have consistently posted that particular picture. Probably you forgot each time because all your pictures are always sourced from internet. This thread is not for internet pictures but for realtime pictures and people on ground. You are well known here for posting internet pictures. Desist from it. Peace

investnow2013:
INNOSON NNEWI ANAMBRA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX