{"id":25548,"date":"2006-11-15T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-24T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:54:35","slug":"548-the-new-face-of-nigeria-s-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/business\/548-the-new-face-of-nigeria-s-oil-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The new face of Nigeria\u2019s oil industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all those desirous to see greater flow of foreign direct investments into Africa, the year 2006 opened on a very optimistic note. China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/09\/AR2006010901779.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> an investment of US$2.3 billion in Nigeria, the continent\u2019s most populous nation. The deal, China\u2019s biggest investment foray into Africa, gives the corporation a 45% stake in an off-shore oil field. China now has partial control over a Nigerian oil field that has the capacity to produce as much as 180,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s investment in that African country is just one out of many of such moves into the continent in last few years, one driven \u2013 among other things \u2013 by the increasing conflicts and uncertainties in Iraq and other parts of the middle east. Angola, another of Africa\u2019s major oil producers, has now overtaken <a href=\"https:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/CBC42713-AB48-4141-A652-090E53D8F2B1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> as China\u2019s biggest single provider of oil.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia, South Africa, Gabon, Cameroun and the Democratic Republic of Congo are some other African countries that have witnessed surging Chinese economic interest.\u00a0From South Africa, China seeks iron ore and platinum.\u00a0From <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/4351019.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DR Congo<\/a>and Zambia, it seeks copper and cobalt; and from Cameroun and Congo Brazzaville, it seeks timber. All of these are raw materials that China needs to drive its ever growing industrial sector. And the results are already beginning to show.\u00a0From a US$3 billion mark in 1995, trade between China and Africa last year stood at US$32 billion.\u00a0Projections are that the figures will hit US$50 billion by the end of this year and will triple by 2015, the UN\u2019s target year to halve poverty worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/hearafrica05\/story\/0,15756,1496561,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new scramble for Africa<\/a>\u201d, as some have christened China\u2019s romance with the continent, has been more dramatic in some countries than others.\u00a0Despite its lingering political crisis, which has attracted international attention and calls for sanctions, Sudan\u2019s exports to China have soared from 10% in 1995 to 70% of its total exports as of 2005.\u00a0Beijing also said earlier this year that it will plough US$35 million into the construction of west Africa\u2019s biggest theatre in Senegal, its first major foray into the continent\u2019s entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>But China\u2019s growing interest in Africa, which has attracted criticisms from other global players such as the US, has been most profound in the continent\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/9557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oil-producing states<\/a>. China has promised to commit US$4 billion to building refineries and power plants in Nigeria.\u00a0Similar largesse is in the offing for Angola, where China has also promised to raise another US$4 billion to help the reconstruction of roads and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Does the \u201cnew scramble\u201d share any resemblance with that of the 17th and 18th century, which saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.cocc.edu\/cagatucci\/classes\/hum211\/timelines\/htimeline3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive shipment<\/a> of African youths to Europe and America?\u00a0I don\u2019t think so. Western imperialism had no \u201cbusiness\u201d colouration at all.\u00a0It was simply a rape predicated on ignorance for which some Africans still seek <a href=\"https:\/\/web.africa.ufl.edu\/asq\/v2\/v2i4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reparation<\/a>. But today\u2019s oil deals are business: legitimate business consciously entered into by the parties involved, and from which all parties can benefit.\u00a0For Nigeria, the principal challenge is how to ensure that a greater majority of its 130 million population benefits from the huge inflow of petrodollars.<\/p>\n<p>Experience from the past has not been particularly heart-warming.\u00a0Half a century of oil exploration in the Niger Delta has left the people of the region poorer than they were before the discovery of oil in their neighborhood.\u00a0Even more worrisome is the ecological damage that the reckless acts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corpwatch.org\/article.php?id=14202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oil spillage<\/a> and gas flaring have caused in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Goodluck Diigbo, an activist from Ogoni, an oil-producing community in the Niger Delta, believes that oil has done his community more harm than good.\u00a0\u201cAll you see in Ogoni is agony,\u201d he told me in New York last month.\u00a0He has been living in New York since 1995, when the military regime of Sani Abacha made attempts on his life. Diigbo was a close ally of <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200611100424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Saro Wiwa<\/a>, leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), who was killed by Abacha\u2019s government 11 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A high level of resentment exists in the Niger Delta against all individuals and institutions that people perceive as instrumental to the ecological disaster they currently face.\u00a0Another Niger Deltan, whom I spoke with during a visit to the region in March, was as rhetorical as Diigbo.\u00a0\u201cThe presence of Shell in Niger Delta has made the place nothing but hell for its people,\u201d he said. I felt a little bit of the hell when I toured some gas flaring sites in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatelaw.org\/gas.flaring\/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flares<\/a> 75% of its daily gas production. Experts say that in Nigeria, an average of around 1000 standard cubic feet of gas is produced for every barrel of oil. With a production rate of about 2.2 million barrels per day, that equals 2.2 billion cubic feet of gas wasted daily. By all assessments, this is a monumental waste and a significant contribution to global greenhouse-gas emissions.\u00a0\u00a0 According to a World Bank 2002 report, \u201cthe most striking example of environmental neglect [in Africa] has been in the oil sector, where natural gas flaring has contributed more emissions of greenhouse gases than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gas flares release a cocktail of toxic substances into the atmosphere, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Methane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">methane<\/a> (CH4).\u00a0Scientists say methane has higher global-warming potential than carbon dioxide.\u00a0Assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate that after 20 years, 1 kg of methane is 62 times more potent than 1kg of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>What do these facts\u00a0mean for the latest bride of Nigeria\u2019s oil sector?\u00a0For one, it calls to attention the need to be an environmentally-friendly operator right from the very beginning.\u00a0Shell began operations in the Niger Delta at a time when the country was still under colonial rule. Many people in the region believe that the company has yet to shed that colonial attitude, decades after Nigeria became an independent state.<\/p>\n<p>CNOOC cannot afford to carry out its operation with the same arrogance that Shell has exhibited in the region over the years.\u00a0To do so will be very counter-productive. The desire of every investor is gain, not pain.\u00a0And real gain is that which benefits all the stakeholders in the deal. No matter who signs the contract papers authorising its operations in Nigeria, CNOOC must see its immediate host community as stakeholders in its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php?p=181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hurricanes<\/a> in the United States and Latin America, which some scientists blame on global warming, show that the consequences of oil companies\u2019 reckless environmental activities are no longer just a problem for the communities directly impacted by acts of environment recklessness. There are many consequences that are faced by all. Evidence linking global warming and hurricane intensity might still appear fuzzy, but it is a potential danger worth taking very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Neglecting these responsibilities would ultimately be self-defeating.\u00a0Prosperity built on the despoilment of the natural environment is no prosperity at all.\u00a0It is only a reprieve from future disaster.\u00a0The issue is not environment versus development or ecology versus economy; the two can and should be integrated.\u00a0This is a challenge that CNOOC must show a strong commitment to meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Godwin Nnanna is Assistant Editor at Business Day Nigeria and winner of the Kalaam Award for Consumer Journalism 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has emerged as a major investor in Africa\u2019s oil-rich Niger Delta. 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