Oduah Urges Metering On Oil Production

Senator Stella Oduah, Vice Chairman, Committee on Women Affairs, has urged the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to put adequate metering system in place to know the country’s exact daily oil production.

Oduah, who spoke in Abuja, said a metering facility would ensure that leakages in the petroleum industry are blocked.
She expressed displeasure over NNPC’s inability to procure the device to adequately keep inventory of oil production in the country, many decades after it commenced.
“Given the fact that crude is the mainstay of the economy, it is important to get adequate metering system to ensure accountability.
“I think it is a problem we should be ashamed to be discussing because in my view, they are problems that NNPC with all sense of sincerity, can easily resolve,” she said.
Oduah explained that the equipment would enable Nigerians to know the flow of crude, “the quantity being exported, from which pipeline, where it is being loaded to and the volume loaded’’.
She added that the equipment would help to determine the back-up stock as well as challenges to be attended to, including the switching off of pipelines in the event of vandalism.