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NIGERIA: Shell Extends Gas Flaring Deadline


A major hiccup on government's effort to terminate gas flaring by 2008 has occured as oil multinational, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said the official deadline will no longer be realistic to the firm.

Laptop Battery Shell said it will now end flaring by 2009 and cited job failures in the company's (AGG) project as one of the reasons for its action.

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Thinkpad Gas flaring is a vexed issue, particularly in the Niger Delta, where groups in the region said it had devastating effects on humans, flora and fauna of the oil-rich area.

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Microsoft Shell declared in its 2004 annual report published on the internet at the weekend that the AGG project, designed to provide gas conduits to over 1000 wells in the Niger Delta, has been hampered by failure in counterpart funding, contract delivery deadlines and community cooperation.

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Laptop Computers Besides, it stated that an additional joint venture (JV) funding of $1.85 billion (or about N247.9 billion) would be required to activate an alternative plan to deliver the project by 2009 to extinguish flares.

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Laptop Computer Shell is the biggest oil and gas producer in Nigeria, pumping over 50 per cent of the nation's crude oil, condensate and gas as the operator of the NNPC/Shell/Elf/Agip joint venture.

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Desktop Computer The company plays leading role in policy implementation in the sector since its compliance accounts for 50 per cent success in any official policy on the upstream petroleum industry.

Notebooks Although elimination of routine flaring of associated gas is an old national aspiration, it received a fillip in the economic reform agenda of the present administration in which government works to harness economic potentials of natural gas for revenue and sundry development goals.

Lenovo In the race to beat the 2008 deadline handed down by government, oil companies in the country initiated gas-based projects including Independent Power Production (IPP), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) and gas export pipelines.

Hard Drive Shell stated that the JV had spent over two billion dollars (or about N268 billion) towards its 1996 commitment to harness associated gas in its network of 73 flow stations to meet supply commitments to Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) and National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), and suspended new field developments that would entail gas flaring.

Travelstar According to the report, five of the AGG projects have been commissioned, eliminating gas flares by 33 per cent or 430 million standard cubic feet per day (430 mscpld) in 22 of the 73 flowstations.

Gateway With work still in progress at another 25 flow stations and design work underway for another nine flow stations, Shell said total elimination of flares is estimated at end of 2009.

Laptop Parts It added that options are being considered to shut in production from 17 low producing flow stations by 2008 if no economically viable solution is evolved for their associated gas output.

Software "We very much regret that we will not be able to meet our, and the Nigerian Government's, flare down target of 2008 - and we are discussing with the relevant Nigerian authorities the available options," Shell stated.

Hard Drives The company blamed the failure on a four billion dollar (about N536 billion) joint venture funding shortfall, poor contractor performance and escalating costs of materials and services.

Electronics According to the report, shell has engaged its JV partners on all the issues of funding, shut-ins and deferments encountered in the AGG with a view to reaching a consensus on how to put the project on fast track to avoid further shift in the 2009 flare down target.

On the completion of the AGG project as designed, Shell stated, the facilities will cover 95 per cent of all associated gas produced.

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