Oil Blocks: Seplat, Brittania-U fight dirty…Chevron, Minister, indicted

As the legal battle between Brittania-U Nigeria Limited and Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited for the acquisition of Chevron’s Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) 52, 53 and 55 shifted to the Supreme Court, lawyer to Brittania-U, Mr. Rickey Tarfa (SAN), has cautioned the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) not to be manipulated into pursuing extra-judicial advantage in contempt of court.
This caution, SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt, came few days after lawyer to Seplat, Mr. DD Dodo (SAN), wrote to the minister and the NNPC, requesting them to grant consent to the bid process and divestment of the disputed oil blocks in favour of his client.

Shame as Shell is accused of not cleaning Ogoni oil pollution...NNPC indicted

 

MD Shell, Mutiu Sunmonu

Little action has been taken to clean up pollution caused by oil production in the Niger Delta region, either by the government or Shell Oil, Amnesty International and other groups have said in a report obtained by SHOWBIZPLUSng.

Oil production has contaminated the drinking water of at least 10 communities in the Ogoniland area but neither the government nor Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigeria subsidiary has taken effective measures to restore the fouled environment, according to the new report by Amnesty International, Friends of The Earth Europe; Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development; Environmental Rights Action, and Platform, according to a report by The Associated Press.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has not yet responded to a request by the Associated Press for reaction to the critical report.