Nigeria
ChevronTexaco is addressing energy poverty in the remotest sections of the Niger Delta, where many communities lack commercial electricity.
Beginning in 2001, ChevronTexaco’s Nigerian affiliate – Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) – started a project to place transmission cables, build power station foundations and pilings, and install power-generating facilities. When complete, the project will provide electricity to some 100,000 Delta residents in 20 communities who never before had electric power.
Excess electricity from CNL’s Abiteye and Olero Creek facilities will be supplied to the communities of Beninkrukru, Kenyagbene, Tebu, Udo, Ajamita Gbokoda, Obaghoro, and Ebrohimi. Hookup completions in many of these communities were expected by 2003. CNL’s electrification effort is expected to help its Western Niger Delta Development Project (WNDDP), a separate $5 million company initiative, sponsored in partnership with the late Rev. Leon Sullivan’s International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH). WNDDP’s goals for support skills training, small-business development, and health and education programs will be significantly supported by electrification. The CNL-donated science laboratory at Ginuwa Grammar School in Gbokoda, for example, will have a regular source of power for student experiments.