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Niger Delta based oil and gas infrastructure surveillance contracting firm, ‘Tantita Securities Services’ has said its fight against illegal crude oil bunkering and associated oil theft in the oil rich region was for both the economic and social well-being of hosts states and the nation.
Executive Director of Operations and Technical of the firm, Capt. Warredi Enisuoh stated this recently in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital while speaking with newsmen shortly after his presentation at the pre-summit conference of the maiden PAN-Ijaw Economic Summit.
He noted that following the firm’s commitment to ensuring the continuous prospects in the oil and gas industry, management has commence a sensitisation programme aimed at mobilizing communities of the region to jettison crude oil theft and associated hazards to the environment.
Enisuoh said available indicators shows that upon the firm’s commencement of operations in the Niger Delta region, crude oil production has witnessed a drastic turnaround and steady improvement on daily basis.
The Tantita’s Director of Operations and technical emphasised that rather than go into crude oil bunkering, communities of the region should embrace a cleaner income making alternatives from other sources of energy.
He said: “It’s time Niger Delta communities look beyond oil and gas and embrace carbon trading. You cannot remove social economic problems from security problems. And we’re also here to market an idea ‘carbon emissions’. The way forward, we have a lot of trees in this area which we can generate a lot of income from”.
He added that: “There’re companies around the world that are ready to partner with the Niger Delta region on carbon trading to promote greener energy, to participate in exchange for green development for the industrial development that will not create carbon emissions thereby decreasing global warming.
“That is why we’ve come here to talk about how the communities will not go into the breaking of the pipelines and that there’re other sources of income from the environment.
“Our communities are very very rich in mangrove forests. One tree alone can absorb about 80kg of carbon dioxide in a year and that’s quite a lot of money.
“If you’ve thousands of these trees in your community that capture carbon capacity, you can trade it for money for development, instead of breaking pipelines that will further degrade the environment which you cannot use for farming, for fishing, drinking, etc”.
