Reports from Itsekiri oil-bearing and impacted communities within the Chevron operating areas in Warri North, Warri South and Warri southwest are gearing for civil action against the multinational, Chevron Nigeria limited over perceived tricks and dilly-dallying tactics of the latter towards the award of contracts for the 2021/2022 circle projects of the Itsekiri Regional Development Committee (I.R.D.C). The communities are accusing Chevron of deliberately frustrating the contract award processes for the 2021/2022 circle projects which began in the middle of 2021. The reason that Chevron’s tactics are calculated to ensure they continue to hold on to the communities’ funds in their possession while using them for their own business while the communities languish in perpetual wait.

The matter came to a head-on Thursday the 30^th of June 2020 when a scheduled board meeting of the IRDC, Chevron refused to approve all the projects presented after a pain-taking analysis and selection of bids. This angered the communities’ representatives in IRDC and hence have resorted to self-help by activating all their cells including the youth, community women and trust bodies ahead of a rescheduled board meeting of IRDC slated for Tuesday the 5^th of July, 2022. In the words of a community leader in the Olero operation field who prefers anonymity “if by Tuesday the 5th of July, 2022, Chevron refuse to answer us, we shall embark on a complete shut down of all their operations from Ugborodo to Omadino, to Olero, and to Dibi fields”

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With this disclosure, Kennedy succeeds Jeffrey Ewing, who recently moved into a new role outside Nigeria in Chevron’s Middle East, Africa and South America Region.

Kennedy’s appointment which had already taken effect from Sunday, November 1, 2020, was disclosed in a statement seen by Unmask NG.

The statement partly read:  “He has held numerous technical and leadership positions of increasing responsibility within Chevron’s Upstream, Midstream and Technical Center segments. He has lived and worked in Canada, Indonesia, The Partitioned Zone, Nigeria, and the United States in the course of his Chevron career.”

Prior to his appointment, Kennedy was however the director, deepwater, and production sharing contracts, in charge of the company’s deepwater portfolio and assets.

The newly-appointed Chairman/Managing Director is a seasoned production/reservoir engineer who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1984 and joined Chevron in the same year.

Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) is the operator of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and CNL Joint Venture (NNPC / CNL JV).

Company performance

Recall that three months ago when Chevron Nigeria released its Q2 financial results for the year (2020), it came to fore that the energy company recorded its worst loss in modern history, as the COVID-19 pandemic and a glut in crude oil destroyed the demand for energy products on a global scale.

At that time, Chevron declared a loss of about $8.3 billion, triggered in part by $5.2 billion write-downs on assets that the company saw had lost relevance and value.

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