The gas under our feet – A blessing wasted for 70 years (I)

Sixty‑eight years ago, in a swampy forest at Oloibiri, in present‑day Bayelsa State, Shell struck oil. That discovery in 1956 would transform Nigeria’s economy, placing us among the world’s major hydrocarbon producers. But buried alongside that crude oil was another treasure – natural gas. And for nearly seven decades, we have treated that treasure as […]