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Delta well continues to burn
e Ojumole-1 well, in the Polobulo community, of Warri North in Delta State, continues to burn, e Guardian said on June 6. e newspaper said this had begun on April 18. It is owned by Chevron Nigeria.
A CNL representative, Esimaju Brikinn, was quoted as saying the terrain had proved challenging to extinguish the ames.
e local community has raised concerns about hazardous fumes and likely health problems. e president of the local council, Ebilate Mac-Yoroki, appealed for help from the federal government and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
DPR strips six licences
Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has revoked ve OMLs and one OPL, the agency said last week. is move came about as a result of the licence holders failing to pay legacy debts and stemmed from a presidential directive.
e licences are Pan Ocean Oil’s OML 98, Allied Energy Resources Nigeria’s OML’s 120 and 121, Express Petroleum and Gas’ OML 108, Cavendish Petroleum Nigeria’s OML 110 and Summit Oil International OPL’s 206.
OML 120 and 121 were held by Kase Lawal’s Camac International. is company had bought the blocks from Nigeria Agip Oil Co. (NAOC) but failed to cover its agreed payment, leading NAOC to secure various court orders against it and physically take control of infrastructure on the blocks.
C&I expresses appreciation for ship release
C&I Leasing has expressed thanks to various Nigerian and Equatoguinean authorities
for the release of the MV Charis. e ship was hijacked by pirates, while on its way to Equatorial Guinea, the company said, and then used to attack another vessel, the MV Blue Marlin. Equatorial Guinea’s forces seized both vessels, which had been intercepted by the Spanish Navy.
e company denied reports that the
MV Charis had been detained in Malabo on suspicion of piracy. e misunderstanding stemmed, the MD, Andrew Otike-Odibi,
said from the fact that the MV Blue Marlin’s crew was “treated decently” in Malabo, “while MV Charis and its crew were detained by the police under threat of being charged with piracy, whereas they were equally attacked and hijacked by the pirates”.
C&I Leasing had appealed to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) “who then engaged all the necessary authorities in both Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea to aid the release of the company’s vessel MV Charis.
Nigerian Navy hands over
suspected oil thieves to
EFCC
e Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal O ce has commenced investigations into the activities of 29 suspected oil thieves alleged to be involved in illegal oil bunkering.
ey were handed over by Nigerian Navy Ship Jubilee in Ikot- Abasi, Akwa Ibom State. Other items handed over to the EFCC include a Truck laden with products suspected to be illegally re ned and 306 drums laden with products suspected to be Automotive Gas Oil, (AGO).
e Naval Handing over O cer, Lt. J. Mohammed said that the suspects were arrested between May 3, 2019 and May 6, 2019 at di erent locations.
While some of the arrests were made on waterways, others were made on land.
According to Lt. Mohammed, a segment of the Nigerian Navy Team arrested 22 out
of the 29 suspects around Bolo Creek near Onne, Rivers State on May 3, 2019. ey were arrested with 4 Vessels laden with indeterminate quantity of products suspected to be illegally re ned AGO.
EfCC, june 8, 2019
Senegal’s Sall pledges investigation into gas deal
Senegalese President Macky Sall has said
he will seek out the truth about allegations, stemming from a BBC investigation, about his brother bene ting unduly from the country’s gas resources. Panorama, a BBC investigative report, reported Aliou Sall had served as advisor to Petro Tim, a company a liated with Frank Timis, despite having little sector knowledge. Furthermore, it reported a US$250,000 sum had been paid to a company controlled by Aliou Sall, describing this as a bribe.
e president’s brother has denied the allegations, saying they were totally false.
Panorama went on to report a deal agreed by BP could see revenues of US$9-12 billion going to Frank Timis as a result of the Senegal nds. It did not provide data on how this sum was calculated.
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Tower notes Namibia, South Africa works
In Namibia, we negotiated a new petroleum agreement in respect of blocks 1910A, 1911 and 1912B, covering 23,297km2 in the Walvis Basin and Dolphin Graben. is is an under- explored region in which recent drilling results have proven the presence of a working oil-prone petroleum system and good quality turbidite and carbonate reservoirs. is is
also an area that we know well, since blocks 1910A and 1911 formed part of Tower’s original licence PEL0010, which Tower and its partners in that license, Repsol Exploration
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