Urhobo’s Production Dominance Prompts Call on Government for Prioritization of Oil and Gas Benefits

Being text of press conference by Urhobo Oil and Gas Nationality (UROAGAN) today 15/1/2024 at Ughelli, Delta State

Gentlemen of the press,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.

URHOBO ETHNIC NATIONALITY PRODUCES THE HIGHEST CRUDE OIL AND GAS IN DELTA STATE: A CALL ON THE FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS TO GIVE URHOBO THE DESERVED BENEFITS

Despite the known fact that Urhobo Ethnic Nationality produces the highest crude oil and gas in Delta state, there are no commensurate benefits to the Urhobo Nation arising from these huge sacrifices and contributions of huge financial resources to the Nigeria & Delta state governments, moreso for the immediate past 8 years. Urhobo is a very peaceful Ethnic Nationality with a high sense of the Nigeria Nationhood but the reward for our peaceful disposition and loyalty to the Nigeria project has been rewarded with deprivation in the petroleum sector where we are a major contributor. Our volume of crude oil and gas production is far more than the quantum of production of some states.

NNPC Limited
The NNPCL has become a cake fully baked for some influential Nigerians sitting and presiding over our suppossed commonwealth. The Urhobos are not found in the board of NNPCl or even as any of the Directors in the corporation. Those who do not bear the brunt of oil and gas exploration and exploitation are the ones occupying the various lucrative offices in the NNPCL. The very few Urhobos in the corporation are not promoted as their counterparts or colleagues are speedily promoted above them. In fact there are Urhobos that have been perpetually kept as casuals in NNPCL without being staffed. All these scenarios stated above also apply to other strategic Oil and gas corporations like NPDC, NAPIMS, NGC, DPR, WRPC, NUPRC, PPMC, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority etc. The question is, do we shift our stand from being a peaceful Ethnic Nationality and resort to self-help against this calculated oppression and deprivation? The answer is no. We therefore call on the Federal government as a matter of urgency to correct these abnormalities against the Urhobo people given our huge contributions to the oil and gas production in Nigeria.

Without mincing words, the following are the production capacities and facilities of Urhobo Ethnic Nationality from the various Urhobo Kingdoms.

Agbarha-Otor Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 25
2. Flow Station
3. Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) Unit – 2
4. Compressor Valve
5. Pigging Manifold (Biggest in West Africa)
6. Field Logistics Base (FLB)
7. Flare Site
8. Water Bath
9. Knockout Valve
10. Camp Site – 2
11. Dump Site
12. Saver Pit
13. Gas Compressor Station
14. Helipad
15. Crude and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Agbarho Kingdom

1. Trans Forcados Crude Oil Pipeline (TFP) across the Kingdom

Agbon Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 37
2. Flow Station
3. Gas Compressor Station
4. Flare Site
5. Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Arhavwarien Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 2
2. Crude Oil Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Effurun-Otor Kingdom

1. Oil Well – 1
2. Tank Farm
3. Fire Station
4. Helipad
5. Manifold
6. Modular Refinery (Under Construction)
7. Water Treatment Plant (Under Construction)
8. Crude Oil Forcados Trunk Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Evwreni Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 16
2. Flow Station
3. Flair Site
4. Camp Site
5. Helipad
6. Saver Pit
7. Crude Oil Pipeline across the Kingdom

Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 12
2. Crude Oil Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Idjerhe Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 15
2. Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Mosogar Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 99
2. Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom
3. Flow stations – 2 (Amaladi)
4. Gas Ratating Stations – 2

Oghara Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 23
2. Flow Station
3. Gas Processing Plant
4. 75 Km Oil and Gas Pipeline across Communities in the Kingdom
5. 20 Km Escravos/Kaduna Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Okparabe Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 11
2. Crude Oil Pipeline across the Kingdom

Okpe Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 87
2. Flow Stations – 2
3. Flare Sites – 3
4. Pan Ocean Metering Point
5. Warehouse
6. Gas Plant
7. LNG Gas Plant
8. Manifold
9. Finished Product of Benin Depot Pipeline Network
10. Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Olomu Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 22
2. Flow Station
3. Manifold
4. Crude Oil and Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Orua-Ivie Kingdom

1. Oil well (capped) – 1

Orogun Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 21
2. Crude Oil Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Ogor Kingdom

1. Crude Oil Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Udu Kingdom

1. Oil Wells -33
2. Natural Associated Gas (NAG) 3
3. Natural Associated GAS (NAG) 1 HP Gas Flare
4. Natural Associated Gas 1 LP Gas Flare
5. Natural Associated Gas (NAG 2 HP Gas Flare)
6. Natural Associated Gas (NAG 2 LP Gas Flare)
7. Field Logistic Base (FLB)
8. Helipad/Airstrip
9. Cable Trace
10. Flow Station Gas Plant 16”
11. Fire Fighter Station
12. UPS 16” Condensate Pipeline
13. UPS 16” Crude Oil Pipeline
14. West Africa Gas Sale Pipeline (WAGP)
15. Multiple Production Pipe Line and Flow Lines
16. Multiple Flowlines linking Well Heads to Flow Station
17. Network of Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Flowlines
18. New Gas Project Under Construction
19. Cathodic Production DEP ground BED Facility

Ughelli Kingdom

1. Oil Wells -56
2. Flow Stations (Double Banks) – 2
3. Gas Compressor Stations – 3
4. Flare Sites -2
5. Camp Site
6. Helipad
7. Dump Site
8. Saver Pit
9. UPS – 2
10. LACT Units – 3
11. Control Room & Turbine
12. Pigging Manifolds – 2
13. Tank Farms – 6
14. Fire Station
15. Gas Plant
16. Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Ughievwen Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 20
2. Gigantic Flow Stations – 2
3. Camp Sites – 2
4. Flare Sites – 4
5. NAG 1 with gas flaring system
6. NAG 2 with gas flaring system under Construction
7. Gas Manifolds – 2
8. Gas Plant
9. Crude Oil and Gas Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

Uvwie Kingdom

1. Warri Refinery & Petrochemical Coy Ltd (WRPC)
2. Warri Refinery & Petrochemical Coy Ltd WRPC (Carbon black)
3. Petroleum Product Marketing Company (PPMC)
4. Flow Station
5. Gas Terminal
6. 2 Capped Oil Wells
7. Forcados Trunk Line (Crude Oil), Gas Pipeline and Refined products Pipeline Network across the Kingdom
8. Nigeria Gas Company (NGC)
9. 2 flare sites

Uwheru Kingdom

1. Oil Wells – 3
2. Crude Oil and Pipeline Network across the Kingdom

In spite of all these enormous contributions by Urhobo Ethnic Nationality as captioned above, we have nothing to show for it in the government-owned establishments and appointments in Nigeria. We humbly call on Mr President, a very reliable Administrator and Leader to change the narrative and status quo. Also, we the Urhobos reject the casualization of our Sons & Daughters in the petroleum sector. We believe in Mr President’s capacity to effect these as further government appointments should therefore reflect the appointment of Urhobo sons and daughters into the critical oil and gas establishments in Nigeria.

13% DERIVATION & DESOPADEC.
It is still a shock of the century that Urhobos who produce the highest crude oil and gas in Delta state is subjected to political manipulations by the state-owned Commission called Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC thereby bringing Urhobo to 3rd in benefits which is nothing but a clear cut marginalization. This is ridiculous and callous. The indices being used today at DESOPADEC are an act of deprivation & economic starvation. This ugly practice is not even documented in any form nor is there any empirical evidence to back it up. It is not from the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR nor from any government office. So what gives authority to such imagination of placing Urhobo as 3rd. It should be reversed with immediate effect and put Urhobo first. The question, one may ask, what makes production figures static for over 16 years? We are calling on the Delta state government to as a matter of urgency facilitate an official report from DPR on the production of Crude oil and Gas of the the various Ethnic Nationalities in Delta state.

Signed

1. Chief Godwin Ogbetuo JP
   (Patron)
2. Chief Dr Obiuwevbi Ominimini
   (National Chairman)
3. Okakuro Engr Anthony Onyokoko
   (Secretary)
4. Olorogun Hon Paul Abada
   (Publicity Secretary)