{"id":9913,"date":"2019-05-10T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2019-05-10T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:52:23","slug":"nigerian-court-dismisses-oil-export-claims-against-eni-petrobras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-court-dismisses-oil-export-claims-against-eni-petrobras","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian court dismisses oil export claims against Eni, Petrobras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, May 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A Nigerian court on Wednesday dismissed government claims that subsidiaries of Eni and Petrobras illegally exported crude oil to the United States, but a lawyer representing authorities in the West African country said an appeal would be launched.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil sales are the mainstay of Africa\u2019s biggest economy, making up two-thirds of the country\u2019s revenue and around 90 percent of foreign-exchange earnings.<\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed in 2016, Nigeria alleged that a number of companies exported a total of 57 million barrels of crude oil to the United States between 2011 and 2014. It said they failed to declare all of this to Nigeria\u2019s government as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>A judge at the federal high court in the commercial capital Lagos said the government had failed to provide enough evidence to support its suit against the local Agip unit of Italy\u2019s Eni and the Brasoil unit of Brazil\u2019s state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA, better known as Petrobras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court did not agree with our position,\u201d said Ituah Imhanze, a lawyer who represented Nigeria\u2019s government in court.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government would file an appeal by the end of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Eni and Petrobras did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, May 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A Nigerian court on Wednesday dismissed government claims that subsidiaries of Eni and Petrobras illegally exported crude oil to the United States, but a lawyer representing authorities in the West African country said an appeal would be launched. 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