AllAfrica.com: Shell’s Oily Troubles
By Sylvester Asoya
Posted 16 June 2004
In the Niger Delta, oil remains the major cause of crisis since the inception of this administration five years ago. A 93-page report that was released in December 2003 gave credence to this as it indicted the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. The survey which was conducted by a Lagos-based WAC Global Services which comprised conflict resolution experts, also criticized Shell for escalating civil strife in the region.
Until 2002, Nigeria provides Shell’s fourth largest oil production as it got 215,000 barrels daily and maintained an enviable status in the oil market. All these have now changed as there are speculations that the oil giant might quit the region in 2009. Although Shell spokesman, Simon Buerk disagreed when he insisted that his company would “help reduce conflict by changing our operating, security and community development practices.” But the real problem in Niger Delta centres on neglect, divide and rule, high-handedness, corruption and dictatorial tendencies which are all features of the present administration. Even, Edmund Daukoro, Senior Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nigeria’s delegate to OPEC meeting in Beirut, confirmed this when he spoke with reporters. read more
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