Abuja — The federal government is considering jail terms for directors of oil and gas companies and other entities involved in hydrocarbon activities in the country, found guilty of abusing industry's safety standards, the new National Petroleum Policy recently approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has disclosed.
Obtained recently in Abuja, the policy showed that health, safety and environment (HSE) practices of the operators in Nigeria's oil and gas industry is quite poor, and needed to be improved on.
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