Sustainability Efforts of One Oil Company in Niger Delta of Nigeria: Assessing the Cognitive Framework

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Afam Anosike
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Oil Company

Understanding Oil Company – Community Conflicts in the Niger Delta (Nigeria)

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibaba Ibaba
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Productivity Losses ◽  
The People ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Revenue Allocation ◽  
Oil Wealth ◽  
Oil Company

This paper examines the contradictory realities that have thrown up the conflicting relationship between oil companies and oil producing communities in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. To achieve this objective, the paper, after the introduction which provides the background and framework of analysis, situated the conflict in its political setting. It established that the privatization and ethnicisation of politics in Nigeria, has resulted to a resource distribution system that alienates Oil Producing Communities from the oil wealth. State legislations on the oil industry and manipulations of the revenue allocation system have made this possible. The article demonstrates that although the causes of the conflicts are complex and interrelated, material deprivation is central to the conflicts. It highlights oil based environmental degradation induced productivity losses and occupational disorientation, inadequate compensation for damages caused by oil industry activities, poor channels of communication by the oil companies, failed community development programmes of the oil companies, among others as causes of the conflicting relationship. The paper notes that current policies have not addressed these factors that motivate conflict. In addition to compensation, the paper suggests the integration of the people into the oil economy, and the direction of public resources to public good as the likely solution.

scholarly journals Resource Curse Thesis: Nigerian Experience of Oil Theft

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
C.O. Okwelum
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The One ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Minority Ethnic

The emergence of the crime of oil theft and illegal refineries is not sudden but the realization of its negative economic impact on the national economy and the business of multinational oil companies have taken the State and the companies by storm shortly after the Presidential proclamation of amnesty in 2009 was configured to fob-off militancy in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. This paper attempts to address the resource curse of oil theft and illegal refineries in the region from a legal theoretical framework running through the various socio-legal theories through which the crime can be viewed and explained. It panders to the critical theoretical school which attributes the causes mainly to State and multinational oil company failures in infrastructural development and social responsibility commitments to the indigenous minority ethnic communities of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria rather than the orthodox school which blames the militants for ‘greed not grievance’ instincts. It employs the analytical, historical and doctrinal methods in presenting and analyzing its research data and in drawing its conclusions. The paper finds that two major and mutually repugnant tendencies in the explanation of the crime crop up from the research records. The one pursued by State actors which is anti-recognition and vehemently opposed to oil theft and local refineries and which calls for their bombardments and annihilation through the instrumentality of military strike force, JTF, and the other which is purveyed by non-State actors which is pro-oil theft that believes that the best approach ought to be condonation, legal regulation and mainstreaming of the phenomenon as part of an indigenous building block of development. This latter perspective discountenances the employment of brute force in the confrontation of the phenomenon and is thus recommended in this paper.

scholarly journals Ecological Marketing Practice and Issues of Agricultural Economic Sustainability: A Focus on Oil Firms’ Activities in Niger Delta

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-128
Author(s):  
Komene G.L. ◽  
Nweidua L.P.
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Agricultural Economic ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Score Test ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Sample Size Determination ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Oil Company

This study was carried out to examine the extent to which the ecological marketing practice of the oil firms: Shell BP, Agip Oil Company, and Elf Oil Company have improved agricultural economic wellbeing of the oil-bearing communities in Niger Delta. A descriptive survey research design was employed in this study. The population of the study was 37,965,391 drawn from Niger Delta States based on which a sample size of 400 respondents was determined using Taro Yamane’s sample size determination techniques at 0.5 percent level of significance. The purposive sampling procedure was employed to enable the researcher to select the representative sample elements of the population interest from the right respondents who have adequate knowledge of the study under investigation from the different strata that makes up the population of the study. A structured instrument for data collection containing twenty (20) item questions was used for the study. The face and content validation of the instrument was obtained through the judgment of experts. A test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and the reliability index of .83 was obtained. The data collected for the study were analyzed using the mean score test and the percentage test method to answered the research questions; while the inferential statistics of the Z-score test was used to test the null hypothesis at .05 level of significance. Results obtained revealed that “Ecological marketing practice of the oil firms does not significantly improved agricultural economic poverty, agricultural market failure, agricultural economic frustration, and agricultural land limitation in the oil-bearing communities in Niger Delta”. The implication of this finding is that the oil firms’ ecological sustainability marketing activities was considered to lack the needed proactive improvement values which, if ethical based ecological effort is not adopted to create sustainable improvement; oil firms might experience unpredicted operational interruption by the oil-bearing communities. It was therefore, recommended that oil firms should consider employing proactive ecological marketing efforts in a more ethical and responsible manner to sustain the agricultural economic wellbeing of the oil-bearing communities.

Fiscal crisis will undermine Nigeria's stimulus plan

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
The State ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
The Imf

Significance The IMF predicts the economy will shrink by 1.8% during 2016, having contracted 0.4% in the first quarter. The slowdown is hurting revenues: On July 14, budget minister Udoma Udo Udoma said the government had collected only 55% of its revenue target. Impacts Talks between Abuja and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta are unlikely to halt attacks on oil infrastructure. With inflation at 16.5% -- the highest rate in a decade -- the CBN may be forced to enter an interest rate hiking cycle. The new head of the state oil company, Maikanti Kacalla Baru, will be tasked with reforming the conglomerate to increase revenues.

scholarly journals Ecocide Activities and Oil Firms’ Ecological Marketing Practice: A Focus on Agricultural-Economic Sustainability in Niger Delta

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Komene Goodnews Loanyie
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Agricultural Economic ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Score Test ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Sample Size Determination ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Oil Company

This study was carried out to examine the extent to which the ecocide activities in Niger Delta have affected the ecological marketing practices of the oil firms: Shell BP, Agip Oil Company, and Elf Oil Company in the improvement of the agricultural economic wellbeing of the oil-bearing communities in Niger Delta. A descriptive survey research design was employed in this study. The population of the study was 37,965,391 drawn from Niger Delta States based on which a sample size of 400 respondents was determined using Taro Yamane’s sample size determination techniques at 0.5 percent level of significance. The purposive sampling procedure was employed to enable the researcher to select the representative sample elements of the population interest from the right respondents who have adequate knowledge of the study under investigation from the different strata that makes up the population of the study. A structured instrument for data collection containing twenty (20) item questions was used for the study. The face and content validation of the instrument was obtained through the judgment of experts. A test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and the reliability index of .83 was obtained. The data collected for the study were analyzed using the mean score test and the percentage test method to answered the research questions; while the inferential statistics of the Z-score test  was used to test the null hypothesis at .05 level of significance. Results obtained revealed that “Ecological marketing practice of the oil firms does not significantly improved agricultural economic poverty, agricultural market failure, agricultural economic frustration, and agricultural land limitation in the oil-bearing communities in Niger Delta”. The implication of this finding is that the oil firms’ ecological sustainability marketing activities was considered to lack the needed proactive improvement values which, if ethical based ecological effort is not adopted to create sustainable improvement; oil firms might experience unpredicted operational interruption by the oil-bearing communities. It was therefore, recommended that oil firms should consider employing proactive ecological marketing efforts in a more ethical and responsible manner to sustain the agricultural economic wellbeing of the oil-bearing communities.

scholarly journals The Politics And Political Implications Of Oil And Gas Exploration In Africa: An Analysis Of American Oil Corporations In Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Adams ◽  
Gbolahan Osho ◽  
Quonna Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Oil Corporations ◽  
The World ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
Oil Company

This study will identify the extent in which American oil companies make billions daily from oil production, while local Nigerians suffer daily from poverty. The focus of this research will be on the population of Niger Delta, Shell Oil Company and the Nigerian government. I will define and establish an illustration of the poverty-structured environment that surrounds Niger Delta and the revenue success of Shell Oil Company and Nigerias government. This research will open the eyes of American oil companies, Nigerias federal government and people around the world to the revenue that is coming into Nigeria, but the communities are still living in poverty. Something needs to be done; if something is not done, some the people of Niger Delta will continue to retaliate.

scholarly journals Comparison of Three Artificial Lift Operations in the Niger Delta

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Chinedu I. Ndubuka ◽  
Julius U. Akpabio
Keyword(s):  
Production Rate ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Oil Wells ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
High Production Rate ◽  
Sufficient Energy ◽  
High Production ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Gas Lift

More than 70% of oil-producing wells require some form of artificial lift to increase the flow of fluids from subsurface to the surface when a reservoir no longer has sufficient energy to produce at economic rates. This situation has been observed in the Niger Delta oil wells over the past years and has caused the abandonment of reservoirs with a significant volume of  hydrocarbon. Data from two oil wells that could not flow naturally to the surface have been  obtained from an oil company operating in the Niger Delta. The arm of this study is to optimize the  production of two oil wells using an artificial lift system. To increase production and extend the life of these wells, artificial lift projects were considered. This was done with the aid of Integrated   Production Modelling (IPM) tool in Petroleum Expert suite. Two wells were simulated using the obtained data, and their production performances were evaluated. The well’s   production outputs were optimized using artificial lift systems, that is electric submersible pump (ESP), hydraulic pump (HP), and gas lift (GL). The results obtained showed that the ESP wells have the highest oil production rate compared to GL and HP respectively. An economic analysis was carried out using Net Present Value (NPV), Profitability Index (PI) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). In terms of economic comparison, ESP is the most viable project  with the highest NPV, PI and IRR Hence, the ESP technology proved to be the best technology for sustaining a high production rate, increasing revenue and proved to be economically viable in Niger Delta oil fields.

Evaluation of a Summer-School Program for Highly Gifted Secondary-School Students: The German Pupils Academy

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Framework

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.

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