Should Big Oil need incentives to stay in degraded Niger Delta?

OPINION: Eni’s decision to sell key assets in the Niger Delta to local player Oando is a sign of the times in Nigeria.

The big beasts of the Western oil and gas world — Shell, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron and Eni — have stalked Nigeria’s fecund onshore hydrocarbon play for more than 60 years, but in recent times have been looking...