Local contractors and staff working for the NPDC/Neconde Joint Venture in Oil Mining Lease
(OML) 42 and NPDC/Shoreline’s OML 30, in Nigeria’s Delta State, have caused disruption in crude oil output on the assets, ensuring drastic drop by over 50% in each of the OMLs.
They were protesting unpaid salaries and emoluments.
In November 2020, the NPDC/Neconde Joint Venture averaged around 18,000BOPD, a drop of more than half of the JV’s optimal output of 38-42,000BOPD. The same month, the NPDC/Shoreline Joint Venture plunged in output from around 50,000BOPD, to 18,000BOPD, according to field data available to Africa Oil+Gas Report.
OML 30 recorded no production between November 8 and 15, 2020, as a result of the protest, according to the report.
In OML 42, output stoppage occurred from November 22 to 28, record shows.
Reports say that the protesters on OML 42 numbering over 200, escalated things to above-surface level on Tuesday December 8, converging at the main gate of Neconde Energy Limited, located at the Berger
Yard, Warri, in Delta State in the mid-west of the country, vowing not to leave the premises until they were paid. They accused Nestoil and Neconde oil firms of owing them salary arrears and emoluments spanning between 2007 and 2020.
The protesters asserted that “communities, contractors and community staff have been working for Naconde and NNPC, yet they have decided to ignore us”.
Some of the protesters displayed placards with inscriptions such as “We want our total payment today”; “Nestoil pay all our money, stop being wicked to us”; “Stop intimidating us with your security agencies,” among others.
The facilities are still down till date for unpaid salaries
Effective business management is a critical intangible input in the operations value factors on the balance sheet of a corporation.
The profit motive, for all Nigetian business owners and managers, is to scrounge marginal profit by imaginatively erasing liabilities (the cost of doing business) thereby apparently maximizing the dividends for shareholders. That is to say they enjoy zero cost of production.
This essentially hides the cost of service owed to contractors and workers. It’s more like making expenses ignorable factor on the balance sheet
Workers, if unionized or not, infrequently declare force majeure. But when they do, the company loses production and hence profit and it damages reputation. In a workers strike situation ignored costs/ liabilities remain and costs are accrued with zero production
This is business malgovernance.