The new ‘Publish What You Pump Campaign’ targets oil industry transparency

A new campaign ‘Publish What You Pump’ launched in Port Harcourt this week by Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, requests that oil companies reveal their exact oil and gas production. According to the group, “The initiative would request that oil and gas production be metered from the oil/gas well to the flow station and the export terminal, and that metering data is available in real time to government institutions such as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and the Office of the Accountant General, among others.” “It also requires that institutions such as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), set up appropriate guidelines for measuring oil and gas production as well as have the necessary tools to carry out their oversight functions.” The Executive Director, ERA/FoEN, Godwin Ojo, said, “The Publish What You Pump draws attention to the crime scene of ecological devastation, ecocide, and oil theft in the Niger Delta. It is time to hold oil companies and the presiding captains overseeing these rots and deaths corporately and personally accountable for the deaths and destruction they are helping to create. “For example, it is the aspiration of the federal government to increase crude oil production to 4mbpd (million barrels per day) in the near future. We state categorically that government is already realizing its aspirations and producing well beyond 4mbpd that is far above the oil industry disclosed production rate that is averaging 2.4mbpd. “The continued resistance of the oil companies to metering oil and gas at well heads and flow stations and the acquiescing of the regulatory agencies as well as other institutions of government can only point to collusion between the oil majors and powerful government officials who benefit from the oil theft. “The core issue affecting the oil and gas industry is the failure and/or refusal of operators in the industry and regulatory bodies to publicly disclose or engage easily available scientific templates for precise measurement of the volume of all oil and gas produced in Nigeria, and at the different stages of the production process. “Although the metering of the production line is important in the short term, it is the national shift in energy production and consumption from fossils to renewable sources of energy that are the more relevant for a shift towards a post petroleum economy that is imminent for Nigeria.”

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This article was first published on 26th July 2013

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