By
\nFamous S. Eseduwo, PhD
\nPolitical Science Department
\nFederal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State \u2013 Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gas flare-out deadlines in Nigeria have failed for over thirty years, viz: 1979-1984, 1985-2004, 2005- 2008, and 2009-2012. Gas flaring, in spite of its stupendous economic waste on Nigeria\u2019s national economy and its lethal impact on mankind, plant, animal and the entire environment, continues in the oil-rich Niger Delta region till date and increases along with the increase in crude oil production in
\nspite of the 10% decline in gas flaring between 2005 and 2006; and 20% decline in 2009 due to corresponding decline in oil production as a result of militant activities in the region (Eseduwo, 2010:2; James, 2007:17). It would appear that public policy-makers and regulatory agencies of Nigeria\u2019s oil industry glibly ignore the advice and\/or informed opinion of indigenous scientists in the process of
\nassociated gas reinjection policy-formulation and implementation that neither gas flare-out deadlines nor its impact mitigation strategies succeed in Nigeria whereas such policies are successful in other countries like Norway, Venezuela, Britain, and so on. In Norway, gas reinjection technology is put in place and it provides pressure maintenance, improves recovery of oil, and provides storage\/swing capacity (Norway Petroleum Directorate, 2010: 4). The Norwegian economics of gas reinjection also used 2-3% of gas as fuel to reinject and 15-25% of gas reinjected is left in the reservoir. And in Norway, associated CO2 is removed from the produced gas
\nand reinjected into a storage reservoir (Norway Petroleum Directorate, 2010: 7-8). In Venezuela, the gas reinjection technology provides turbines and compressors. In 2010, GE Nuovo Pignone (a company in Venezuela) received a contract of approximately US$100 Million to supply gas turbines and compressors to WILPRO Energy Services of Caracas, Venezuela for a new gas reinjection station being constructed in the Pirital oil fields of the State of Monagas, Eastern Venezuela. WILPRO is a market leader for gas re-injection and refinery projects on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis in Venezuela (http:\/\/docs.google.com, accessed on September 9, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[22],"product_cat":[21],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-134","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-digital-books","product_cat-book-store","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}