Nigeria: N-Delta Crisis - Senate to Survey Oil Companies Operations

22 June 2009

Abuja — The Senate is to conduct a survey of oil producing companies towards determining the effect of the ongoing military operations in the Niger Delta on their production activities.

Senator Lee Maeba, chairman of the Senate committee on Upstream Petroleum yesterday acknowledged that the operations of the Joint Task Force (JTF) would have affected the production levels of the oil companies. He, however, said only a comprehensive survey could determine the real impact of the operations on oil operations.

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