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Position Paper on Climate Change Adaptation |
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Nigeria: Shell demands N375bn to end gas flaring |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Business Day  Shell says it requires an additional $3 billion (N375 billion) and
the resolution of the Niger Delta crisis to be able to end gas flaring
in the country, insisting that it will be unable to meet the December
2008 deadline due to insecurity in the oil-rich region and funding
shortfalls.
The oil giant said in a report on “The elusive goal to stop flares”
released during the week that its major challenge in the country was to
gather gas from more than 1,000 wells scattered over the Niger Delta
which, it said, is larger than Portugal.
According to the company, this means building gas collection facilities
at the oilfields and constructing an extensive pipeline network to
carry the gas to an industrial facility where it is turned into a
liquid for transport. |
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Alert: Ongoing Shell Spill puts Community at risk |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Location: Ikot Ada Udo, Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State , Nigeria
Cause of Spill: Facility failure
Oil company: Shell Petroleum Development Company
Action taken by Shell: None
Alert Date: 15 August 2007
For
about two weeks now, a corked well owned by SPDC has been spewing crude
oil and noxious fumes into the environment of Ikot Ada Udo in Ikot
Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Community people say
that although the oil giant has been informed of the situation it has
shown no sign of waking up to its responsibility.
There is palpable fear of conflagration in the community going by
antecedents in other areas. There is also a fear of a rise in
respiratory diseases in the area as the fumes hang thick in the air.
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OIlwatch Africa Communique |
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
COMMUNIQUÉ ON THE OILWATCH AFRICA SUMMIT ON OIL, ENVIRONMENT AND
CONFLICT HELD IN WARRI DELTA STATE IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA
DECEMBER 3RD – 6TH 2007
PREAMBLE
Civil society groups and community representatives from some countries
in Africa who are members of the Oilwatch Africa Network participated
in a three day intensive strategy session on oil, its impact on the
environment and its inherent capacity to inflict violence on local
communities who are unfortunate to have oil discovered around them. |
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Nigeria: FG Insists On 2008 Gas Flare Down Deadline |
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 |
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Daily Independent Newspapers
Director of the Department off Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr Tony
Chukwueke, who declared government’s position at the recent
international Conference of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in
Abuja , made it clear that operating companies that defy the directive
would come under severe sanctions. As part of the broad
national aspirations in the upstream petroleum industry, government had
set 2008 as the deadline for operators to achieve zero flares at
production sites. |
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Ghana - WAGP May be Polluting Aboadze Sea |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
THE Programme Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in
the Western Region, Mr. Kwame Diewuo, has disclosed that the agency's
preliminary investigations so far conducted into the operations of the
West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project have confirmed that WAGP
operations have led to the pollution of the sea at Aboadze.
Consequently, the agency, he said, would continue to conduct intensive
investigations to prove that the WAGP was responsible for the pollution
of the sea.
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Senate condemns anti-OPEC bill in U.S. Congress |
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
THE
Senate yesterday passed a resolution condemning the passage of a bill
by the Congress of the United States of America (USA) against the
existence of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Adopting a motion sponsored by Senators Olorunnimbe Mamora ( Lagos ) and Jibril Aminu (Adamawa), the Upper House also urged the U.S. President George W. Bush not to sign the bill into law. The
No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartel (NOPEC) Bill introduced by the
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of
Representatives, John Conyers, was said to have been passed by the U.S.
Congress and is already awaiting the assent of President Bush.
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Refineries: Oil Workers Threaten Takeover |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
ThisDay Newspapers
Oil
workers have threatened to “physically” stop the takeover of both
Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries by their new owner, Blue Star Oil,
a Nigerian consortium.The workers, under the aegis of Petroleum and
Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of (PENGASSAN), and National Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG), said they would stop
Blue Star Oil from taking possession of the refineries.
According
to them, the price of $561 million paid for the Port Harcourt refinery
was far below cost of materials and spare parts currently in store and
valued at over $800 million and those in transit valued at $9.2 million.
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