Francis Johnson, president of the
Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), is
dead.
A source disclosed this but refused to go into details. The source said Johnson died in the early
hours of the day.
Okugbawa Lukman, general
secretary of the union, was unavailable for comment as of the time this report
was filed.
Lukman neither answered calls nor
responded to the text message sent to him.
Johnson was first elected
president of the association in June 2014 and reelected for another term in
2017.
One of his last official
assignments was a workshop which held in Asaba, Delta state, earlier in the
week.
He had urged the federal
government not to grant approval to any new gas project that does not abide by
the zero gas flare policy.
Johnson said the framework known
as the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP), initiated by the
federal government will monetise the volume of gas flared in Nigeria’s oil
fields and ensure that wasteful practice ceases to exist in the country from
when it becomes operational.
“Besides its expected
environmental impacts on the oil-bearing communities in the country, it will
also add about N306 billion burnt yearly, representing a total of 282.05
billion standard cubic feet (SCF) translating to $846 million using the average
2018 price of natural gas of $3per 1000SCF lost through flaring into the
nation’s economy,” Johnson had said.
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