Royal Dutch Shell PLC to fear the largest could lose its oil license passed land in Nigeria by the country of new petroleum industry Bill, according to one in a series of diplomatic cables to provide insight into the intersection between economics and politics in Africa's largest oil producer.
Bloomberg News Executive Ann Pickard, now in Australia, shell people in Nigerian ministries said after a cable."The GDP will redefine how a company can comply with exploration blocks, limit production, what well to two kilometers around each, can be kept", said the cable from the US Embassy in Nigeria Government officials in Washington. The news followed an October 13, 2009, meetings between Dundas McCullough, the U.S. Deputy Head of the Mission in Abuja, Nigeria, and Ann Pickard, who then shell's Vice President of Sahara. "We 80% our land productive could lose under rules" that would distribute areas ungebohrt was quoted words you.
Correspondence published the cables, secret government by WikiLeaks, shell officials paint as the Nigerian officials repellent and nervous about pending changes in the nation oil industry. Nigeria has been a cornerstone of shell's operations for decades. The nation represented about one-fifth of the company's oil production last year. Output has increased this year as militant attacks on oil facilities have fallen.
Tabs as shell keep inept and increasingly prepared a Nigerian Government, with China and deal Russia the Corporation places people in "all relevant [Nigeria] ministries," according to an October 20, 2009, cable.
In this message, Mrs Pickard said to former U.S. Ambassador Nigeria Robin Renée of Sanders belonging data shell has been sent by the Nigerian Government officials to China and Russia had. But, she added, the Nigerian Government "had forgotten that Shell had seconded people to all relevant ministries and that Shell had therefore access to everything that was made in these departments."
Mrs Pickard said a conversation between himself and a Nigerian officials were secretly taken by the Russians, and message asked officials share intelligence on Russian plans for Nigeria, according to the cable.
"We can not comment on the alleged content of the cable, including the accuracy or inaccuracy of the information that supposedly contains," said a company spokesman of. The company said it is "absolutely untrue", the shell infiltrated but Nigerian Ministry, the impact on the company of's business in the country. Mrs Pickard was shell's executive Vice President for exploration and production operations in Australia in March, to respond to a request for comment.
A Nigerian Government spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
AFP/Getty Images of this file image may 2005 oil and gas, shows taken on 18 shell's on Bonny Iceland in southwestern Nigeria's Niger Delta terminal.An official of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria refused an opinion.
The petroleum industry Bill has become a hot button issue because multinationals, fear it will reshape the industry by increasing their royalty free and tax payments on existing plans and possibly it– long dormant oil fields.
At a meeting in Lagos February of this year with US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson criticized several oil company executives GDP according to another cable from Wikileaks published.
Peter Robinson, a shell Vice President for Africa, Mr Carson said the Nigerian authorities don't understand the oil industry. "Amateur technocrats run the oil and gas sector," cited the cable Mr. Robinson. "You think that you industry on spreadsheets and shoved the GDP to control."
There are several drafts of the GDP. An aide of Nigeria's President has said he hoped would pass the law to the end of the year.
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