Nigeria: Oil, poverty and scheming

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Nigeria: Oil, poverty and scheming




by martien007 » 19/06/08, 14:56

When you read such an article, you understand how much people do not benefit from oil revenues and therefore what is due to them !!

Then it is much easier to hit them by saying that they are black, that they have too many kids, that they are lazy ... etc

The culprits are not what we believe and I understand very well the attacks of local activists:

le 19/06/2008 12h00
Shell stops production on major oil field in Nigeria
Partial view of the offshore well of the Bonga deposit

The Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell has halted production on a major offshore well in south-eastern Nigeria following an attack by activists, a company spokesman told AFP on Thursday.

"We halted production from the Bonga deposit following an attack this morning by unidentified militants," Shell Precious spokesman Okolobo said, refusing to specify how much crude was affected.

No information as to possible victims was available for the time being.

The oil field is in the Niger Delta region, where regular violence against oil installations has reduced Nigeria's total oil production by a quarter since January 2006.

The Shell group recently lost its position as the leading oil producer in Nigeria to ExxonMobil.

Also on Thursday, the Ogoni People’s Survival Movement (Mosop) said that a significant amount of oil was leaking from a disused Shell facility in the region.

Oil has spilled into villages in the Gokana local government region, Mosop spokesman Bariara Klalap told AFP, who called on Shell to contain the leak.

Community violence fueled by poverty and pollution from oil production has forced Shell to cease operations in Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta.

In early June, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua announced that "by the end of the year, another operator will take over Shell Petroleum's interests in Ogoniland".

The Anglo-Dutch oil group warned last week that it could not honor delivery contracts from its Bonny terminal for June and July after militants sabotage its main oil pipelines.

The Bonny and Forcados east sites are the main terminals for Shell's export to Nigeria.

The oil company had already declared the state of "force majeure" for its April and May deliveries from Bonny, after the sabotage of two pipelines supplying the terminal, by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta ( MEND), the main armed organization in the oil south.

Nigeria, which was the largest crude producer on the African continent, fell to second place in April, behind Angola, according to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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by Christine » 19/06/08, 15:08

An article we wrote in 2004 - still relevant today, unfortunately:
https://www.econologie.com/le-nigeria-et-le-petrole-articles-300.html
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