Austin Ogwuda
23 July 2008
DELTA State Government has commenced a fact-finding tour to all oil installations across the state with a view to ascertaining the actual quantum of crude oil production in the state as part of efforts towards enhanced revenue generation.
Special Adviser to the state Governor on Oil and Gas, Mr. David Ekerekosu who is heading the monitoring team told reporters in Asaba that all stakeholders would be involved in the exercise, noting that the exercise will enable Government to know the number of oil companies and their production capacity as well as number of oil wells in the state.
He pointed out that the state government, "is determined to ensure that no oil well in the state is wrongly ceded to other states as well as not cheated in the Federal Government derivation revenue to oil producing states".
Meanwhile, the state governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has challenged the newly elected leadership of Petroleum and National Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to use their position as a pressure group in support of the clamour for an upward review of derivation funds accruing to the oil producing states of the Niger Delta region.
He stated this when he played host to the body led by the National President of PENGASSAN Comrade Babatunde Oguns that paid him a courtesy visit in Asaba on Monday night.
Oguns has earlier told the governor that the national officers were in Delta State as part of a consultative visit to the oil producing states and "on the need to bring back confidence to the people of the region".
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