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Since 2012 he said the company had discovered and removed 1,160 points where thieves were stealing the oil.<\/p>\n
But this did not seem to be stemming the problem as 9,000 barrels a day were being stolen in 2017, 11,000 last year and 10,000 this year.<\/p>\n
Mr Weli was also critical of a lack of development in the Niger Delta, where most people remain poor despite the vast wetlands rich oil resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a community in the Niger Delta that has received over 2bn naira ($5.5m, \u00a34.5m) from SPDC joint venture for its development, but is yet to develop,\u201d the Premium Times quotes him as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe region receives 13% derivation, revenue from NDDC [the Niger Delta Development Commission government agency] and funds from companies, but still has not developed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Niger Delta has refused to develop despite the huge monies allocated to the area. So, we need to ask ourselves the critical questions to change the Niger Delta narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n
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source:dailygraphic<\/p>\n
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Shell\u2019s subsidiary in Nigeria says the oil giant is losing 10,000 barrels of oil a day to thieves in the West African nation \u2013 at a cost of $560,000 (\u00a3452,000) a day. The losses by vandals attacking oil pipelines in the southern Niger Delta are equivalent to $204.4m over a year. The announcement was made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4899,11394,9331,5499,7076,2264,5721,12791,2782,2996,1390,6877,434,5549,5441,5081,10917,11082,10722,8383,328,1542,7620,13355],"class_list":["post-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-african","tag-attacks","tag-city","tag-crude-oil","tag-delta","tag-government","tag-losses","tag-manager","tag-monies","tag-naira","tag-niger","tag-niger-delta","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-oil","tag-petroleum","tag-poor","tag-port","tag-removed","tag-revenue","tag-shell","tag-shell-petroleum-development-company-of-nigeria","tag-vandals","tag-wetlands"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}