NEITI to list names of oil block beneficiaries The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has said its ongoing 2012 audit of the oil and gas sector will disclose extant details of crude oil blocks licence holders in the country. According to NEITI, the move was in accordance with the revised reporting standards that were recently unveiled by the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Most licence holders of crude oil blocks in Nigeria are hardly known. Speaking at a workshop organised to educate civil society organisations in the extractive industries on the new standards in Abuja on Thursday, the Chairman, National Stakeholders Working Group of NEITI, Mr. Ledum Mitee, said the disclosure would enhance greater transparency and accountability in crude oil production and revenue receipts. The disclosure, he said, is expected to come under the caption ‘disclosure of beneficial ownership’ and will be part of the revised EITI natural resource audit reporting standard. He said, “The revised standards require, for instance, disclosure of production figures, revenue flows to state, local and other accounts, as well as disclosure of ownership of the licence holders (disclosure of beneficial ownership).” The NEITI boss noted that the new standard was adopted in May 2013 at EITI’s last conference in Sydney, Australia, adding that the standard retains the majority of the requirements of the hitherto existing transparency initiative rules. “But it is now significantly restructured into a smaller set of requirements with clearer expectations that are geared towards producing and disseminating reports that are better grounded in national priorities and reforms,” Mitee said.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:00:03 +0000
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