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Position Paper on Climate Change Adaptation
Friday, 27 June 2008
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Nigeria: Shell demands N375bn to end gas flaring
Friday, 09 May 2008

Business Day

ImageShell 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.
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 May 2008 )
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Alert: Ongoing Shell Spill puts Community at risk
Thursday, 08 May 2008

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.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 May 2008 )
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OIlwatch Africa Communique
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

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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
Wednesday, 03 October 2007

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
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.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 October 2007 )
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Senate condemns anti-OPEC bill in U.S. Congress
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
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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