Asaba—The Niger Delta Petroleum Resources, NDPR, has said its inclusion among the companies that flare gas, as reported in the Vanguard of Tuesday, September 15, 2015, is unfair.

*Gas flare

Vanguard had reported that NDPR flared 99 per cent, about 1.259 billion SCF of its total gas production of 1.271 billion SCF in April.

However, the company said that from 2012 to date, it had continually reduced its gas flare foot print to the point where between the months of January and July, 2015, its historical monthly average quantities of gas flared amounted to less than one percent of its total gas production. This flare, according to NDPR. It was known in industry circles as a technical flare.

The company explained that in the month of April, it’s total gas flare amounted to 0.005Bscf or 0.036 percent of its total gas production. It further stated that in recognition of the significant gas flaring reduction milestones attained by NDPR, from its Ogbele field, The Global Gas Flaring Reduction, GGFR, Forum, a public private partnership, in which the World Bank plays a leading role, awarded NDPR an award at its 4th GGFR Forum held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 9th to 11th of September, 2015.

The company explained “it owns and operates a gas processing plant which was commissioned on November 24, 2012, whereas it signed a gas sale and purchase agreement in 2010 with the SPDCJV for the supply of gas to the NLNG.”

According to NDPR, it commenced meeting those supply obligations (up to 35 MMscf) in November 2012 and to date, remained the only indigenous oil and gas company supplying gas to NLNG train.