Former presidential advisor on petroleum Jan Mangal has expressed shock that ExxonMobil has flared over 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas offshore and said that he had insisted in 2018 that there be no flaring and that gas be brought to shore for electricity, fertilizer and other uses.
Believing that ExxonMobil flared the gas as a means of saving on revenue, Mangal also bemoaned that after finding oil since 2015, to date this country hasn’t the requisite oil and gas professionals in its employ and it is why he believes that the country is failing .
“ExxonMobil will take the cheapest path of least resistance. They planned to flare all the gas before I became involved in March 2017. I insisted on no flaring and that the gas be piped to shore for electricity and other uses (fertiliser, etc), Exxon agreed and created a pipeline project with a team in Houston,” he wrote yesterday on Facebook.