By Amos Odhe
The management of NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (NEPL), Shoreline Natural Resources Limited and Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL), have been urged to disregard the protest over the pipeline surveillance contract for Isoko area in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30.
Some Isoko youths were alleged to have been sponsored to embark on the protest held last Saturday at Oleh.
But, a community leader in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30, Delta State, Mr. Odiri Umukoro, told the Joint Venture Partners and HEOSL that Comrade Zino Onaemor was “the best person to handle the Infield Surveillance contract in Isoko axis.”
Umukoro spoke on Wednesday, while reacting to the protest over the pipeline surveillance contract already won by Zino Onaemor’s company via “a transparent tender process” for Isoko axis.
“Let me call on NNPC Exploration and Production Limited NNPC E&P Limited and Shoreline Natural Resources Limited (SNRL), being the Joint Venture Partners of the OML30 Assets, not to succumb to the ill-advised protest sponsored by someone set out to blackmail the JV Partners and Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited just to achieve a mischievous aim
“At the end of every tender process, only bidders who won would be issued award letter. In this case, a Nigerian, and Isoko son in the person of Comrade Zino Onaemor won the contract and he should be allowed to do his job. However, no amount of sponsored protest will make HEOSL to release award letter to a company that lost in the tender/bidding process,” he said.
Umukoro said that contracts are awarded based on track records, adding that Comrade Zino Onaemor has the required experience and “laudable track records in pipeline surveillance.”
