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It's injustice to allow Zamfara to mine gold while jailing ...

That is why today, Zamfara can come and say they have gold that they want to sell to the Central Bank of Nigeria for $5bn. If we in the South-South are also allowed to explore our crude oil and ...

Zamfara is one of Nigeria's most viable states - Yari

Mineral Resources In Nigeria And All The Important ...

Crude Oil. This is one of the major mineral resources in Nigeria at the moment. In fact, the Nigeria economy depends so much on it. It was first discovered in 1959 in Bayelsa State. It is now being extracted in 8 states which are Delta, Abia, Rivers, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Imo and Ondo. Over 2 million barrels of crude oil is said to be produced per ...

Oil Peak: Untapped Oil Reserves Could Fuel U.S. For 300 Years

Oil shales: Oil extracted from shale fields represents the mother lode of untapped reserves, at about 1.5 trillion barrels — or 200 years worth of supply at current usage levels. Roughly two-thirds of the U.S.'s oil shale fields in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are in federally-protected areas and closed to development.

What country has the most untapped oil? - Quora

Answer (1 of 3): Supposedly others are saying the United States has the most untapped sources of crude oil and shale oil and crude natural gas and shale natural gas. But, it has already been stated 6 months ago the Venezuela has the MOST untapped sources of conventionally heavy, sour and hard to...

Between Zamfara's Gold And Niger Delta's Crude Oil

Between Zamfara's Gold And Niger Delta's Crude Oil. Although illegal mining of gold and other precious metals as well as solid minerals had been going on in the northern part of Nigeria for decades, two recent events have given official seal to the direct assault on the Constitution on ownership and exploitation of minerals.

POTENTIALLY UNTAPPED RESOURCES IN NIGERIA – DUNERGY …

POTENTIALLY UNTAPPED RESOURCES IN NIGERIA 10 Major Untapped Resources In Nigeria By Mutiu Yekeen – April 16, 2016 The time for the nation to diversify her economy by tapping different resources scattered across 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is no other than now as the crude oil revenue which accounts for her major cash cow has …

14 UNTAPPED OR ABANDONED RESOURCES IN NIGERIA.

Experts said that Nigeria has one of the largest deposit of bitumen in the world. The quantity of our bitumen deposit is twice the number of crude oil reserves we have in the country (42 billion tons of bitumen) this Natural mineral has been discovered since 1905, yet, to date, it remains untapped. Ogun and Ondo are some of the states with ...

Zamfara is one of Nigeria's most viable states - Yari

Zamfara State Governor, and chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, in this chat with select journalists in Abuja, stated that all Nigerian states have the untapped potentials to survive without crude oil from the Niger Delta. He disclosed the steps his administration is already taking to exploit the huge potentials in the […]

Crude Oil vs Zamfara Gold: S'South Govs, Others Brainstorm ...

Governors in the South-South states will storm Port Harcourt, today, to take a common position on why Zamfara State can take ownership of its gold reserve while their states are barred from laying claim to crude oil extracted from the region. The Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa gave the hint, last Wednesday. He said […]

Nigeria to lift ban on Zamfara solid mineral mining by Q1 ...

Nigeria's untapped minerals: Crude oil is not the only natural resource that can be found underneath Nigeria. The country is also blessed with deposits of gold, tin, nickel, zinc, and other precious stones scattered across the country. But these solid minerals have mostly been untapped due to Nigeria's focus on oil and gas.

Africa's Most Interesting Untapped Oil Play | OilPrice.com

Guinea Bissau's Atum prospect is an untapped frontier in an area that's rich in oil and gas, but political instability and lack of appetite from oil majors have kept the nation from ...

NIGERIA'S UNTAPPED VAST AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES. – …

Nigeria ranks among one of the countries in the world with the highest agricultural resources. A nation blessed with an abundance of agricultural products. From the East to the West, North to South of Nigeria, there is an abundance and variety of agricultural products, which regrettably have been largely unexploited and undeveloped. Each and every…

Between Zamfara's Gold And Niger Delta's Crude Oil

Nigeria's Vast Untapped Agricultural Resources ...

For more than 50 years, we abandoned agriculture to enjoy the quick, faster, abundant and ever flowing wealth that crude oil and its discovery had bestowed on the nation. Today, most Nigerians would agree that crude oil discovery in Nigeria has almost become a curse to the nation, especially with its attendant effect on Agricultural development ...

10 Major Untapped Resources In Nigeria - Economic Confidential

Coal Coal (lignite, sub-bituminous coal and bituminous coal) is one of the greatest resources found in Nigeria and the oldest commercial fuel which the nation has failed to explore. The discovery of oil and gas has led to the use of diesel, and natural gas and hydro resources for electricity generation. Economic Confidential learnt that untapped lignite deposit locations with over …

Number of drilled but uncompleted wells declines - Today ...

As of September 3, the Baker Hughes active oil rig count was 394 rigs. Although that figure is up 181 rigs from last year, the number is historically low compared with other periods when crude oil futures prices were near similar levels (or at even lower prices). Rising rig counts typically lag four to six months behind a crude oil price increase.