GASIN achieves its goals through research and monitoring of on-going gas operations, information gathering and dissemination, and awareness raising in the Niger Delta communities. We engage in fact-based and respectful lobby and advocacy with the Government and Oil and Gas companies. We facilitate multi stakeholder platform (MSP) thatinvolves the Nigerian Government, Oil and Gas companies, affected communities and Civil Society Organisations. 

These, we do in partnership with the local communities, who, in most cases, lack the requisite technicalities to effectively request for their rights before the government and operators.k

We work in the Niger Delta communities, where there are functional gas facilities. Presently, we have twelve communities in Rivers state and three in Bayelsa state. These, we call Our Target Communities. 

In Rivers state, we have two clusters namely Ogba/Egi and Egbema. In Ogba, we have seven target communities that are impacted by the operations of TotaFinaElf and Nigeria Agip Oil Co. Ltd. (NAOC). In Egbema, we have five target communities that are directly impacted by the natural gas exploitation activities of mainly NAOC. 

In Bayelsa state, we have only one cluster made up of three target communities that are around the Integrated Oil and Gas Project (IOGP) operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC). 

These fifteen communities were carefully selected because they are directly affected by the activities of natural gas exploration, processing and distribution.

Click here for the list of the communities.

GASIN’s vision is aimed at creating a better and more conducive environment for the communities where gas exploration is going on, as well as for Operators and Government through designed activities. GASIN also aims at reducing the negative environmental, social and climatic effects resulting from unhealthy industrial processes, by bringing affected Communities, Government and Operators to work towards improved standards accepted internationally.

Therefore, Our Vision is:

A clean and safe Niger Delta in which natural resources are extracted and processed in accordance with the highest internationally agreed standards on oil and gas exploration and in which conflicts over natural resources are resolved through dialogue between the Government, Extraction companies and Communities.

GASIN wishes to ensure that Gas extraction and processing including transportation, storage, shipping and trading in the Niger Delta are done in accordance with international standards, taking into consideration the negative effects of these processes on the atmosphere, water, land, health and other basic social amenities of the people. We retain the hope of resolving conflicts, disputes and addressing impacts on the people through dialogue.

Thus, Our Mission:

GASIN is to be a leading non-governmental organisation with an expert background in the effects of gas extraction, processing and distribution. In partnership with local communities and through dialogue with Government and oil and gas companies, we contribute to a clean and safe environment in which the exploration of the natural resources contributes to the livelihood and well-being of the people.

• Monitoring developments in the oil and gas industry with the purpose of undertaking advocacy for human-friendly and environmentally safe practices throughout the industry.

• Preventing discord between host communities and multinational corporations by proactively encouraging participatory ownership through respectful dialogue between all stakeholders to resolve sticking points that may arise from time to time.

• Advocating the curtailment of the use of chemicals in the dehydration of Natural Gas, and where such toxic chemicals are unavoidably used, to advocate the safe disposal of the consequent toxic wastes.

• Encouraging and supporting access to justice for those who have a genuine case against defaulters; supporting justifiable claims by affected individuals/communities for fair compensation, when and where their rights to a safe, secure, and humane environment have been violated.

• Seeking and establishing partnerships with shareholder organizations for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear on corporation managers to do business with integrity, within internationally accepted standards, and in a socially responsible manner.