The 20-bed hospital was ravaged by flood in 2012, which rendered it disused until the multi-million-naira intervention.
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The President spoke Monday while receiving the delegation of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) led by the Global Upstream Director, Zoe Yujnovic at the State House, Abuja.
A Spokesman of the SPDC, Michael Adande, disclosed this development in a statement he issued on Thursday.
General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, made this known at a news conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The people dragged the SPDC to the court over a May 17, 2018 oil leak from the oil firm’s Trans Ramos Pipeline.
Oloibiri is the community in which Nigeria discovered oil in commercial quantity in 1956 in present day Bayelsa State.
Dr. Leemon Ikpea; Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma; and Osagie Okunbor after a security meeting with the Governor
While the rights group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, has alleged improper clean-up and remediation of oil spilled sites by SPDC and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, SPDC has, however, denied the allegation.
Marshall Israel, the Federal Commissioner representing Rivers State in the PCC, gave the commendation when he presented the commission’s “Ambassador of Peace Award” to SPDC in Port Harcourt.
The company’s Media Relations Manager, Bamidele Odugbesan, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Friday.
Uzodinma gave the commendation while inspecting the SPDC ongoing projects in Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of the state on Friday.
Crude oil theft either through deliberate false metering by some oil majors or illegal bunkering by cartels is rife in the Nigerian oil and gas sector with Nigeria ranking as the second country with highest rate of oil theft, only next to Mexico.
The DPR described the allegations as false and baseless.
In addition, TNOG Oil and Gas Limited will have sole operatorship of the asset.
The communities were affected by an oil spill caused by the oil company in 1970.
Ben Warder, a youth leader in Ikarama, near the incident site, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday that residents heard several sounds from the explosions that rocked the oil fields on Monday.
The Board for the project, which has a capacity for 300 million standard cubic feet of gas per day and the potential to be one of the largest domestic gas projects in Nigeria when completed, was inaugurated on Thursday.
Records made available by SPDC show that only seven operational spills were reported in 2019, a 46.6 per cent decrease over the previous year, 2018, when the company recorded 15 operational spills.
Osagie Okunbor, the Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, disclosed the production data in the oil firm’s 2020 briefing notes made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
The communities included stakeholders from the OML 79 host communities in Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas of the state.