Output from major
shale oil regions will grow by 131,000 barrels a day in April, the Department of Energy predicts.»
In what could be described as a sheer coincidence is the President's visit which is coming at a time
the oil region is presently soaked with tension in the wake of the resurging militants activities.
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), blamed for a wave of such attacks since the start of the year, said the latest bombings were to protest the government's handling of problems facing
the oil region.
«It's a dead environment,» said Patrick Naagbanton of the Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development in Port Harcourt, the leading city of
the oil region.
The paper proposed that doctors send patients from around the country to
the oil regions.