Erring multinational Oil Companies will face the wrath of the Law if they do not heed to the warning by the Federal Government to end All Forms of Gas flaring by 2008. The Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said at the Society of Petroleum Engineering in Abuja , said Government \'s directive on elimating Gas -flaring by Oil Companies by 2008 is still in force.
Although the multinationals have ruled Out the possibility of this objective next year as a result of the crisis in the Niger Delta region, the DPR authorities have maintained that Government will not shift its stand on Gas flaring. He said the Nigerian Petroleum Act of 1969 provides that Companies involved in production should, five years after commencement of production, come up with feasebile means of utilising produced Gas , that\'\' Gas flaring is against the Law\'\'. the act was put in place in 1979, but the implementation of the act was also frustrated by operators on the allegation of lack of funding, Ibikunle said the penalty was introduced in 1985.