Niger Delta key to Nigerian oil output ambitions

摘要

Nigeria will meet its goal of raising crude productionncapacity to 4 million b/d by 2010, according to oilnminister Odein Ajumogobia, a claim heavily dependent onnfinding a solution to the unrest in the Niger Delta. Then2010 target is nonetheless “attainable,” the ministernsaid, speaking in Abuja in February. “The nationalnaspiration still remains to obtain 40 billion [barrels of]nreserves by 2010 and production capacity of 4 millionnb/d at the same target date,” he said.