Petroleum Companies Put in Middle of Possible Economic Blockade or Civil War - Lt. Col. C. O. Ojukwu, the military governor of eastern Nigeria, a young man with a boyish face and a grizzly beard, smiled mischievously as he answered a question about oil and the Nigerian crisis, "The oil companies... poor chaps," he told his news conference in Enigu this week, "I feel very sorry for them because they are very likely be used as a Ping-Pong ball." The governor speaks of oil with authority. His father, the late Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu, was on the board of directors of the Shell-B.P. Petroleum Development Co., which produces 85% of Nigeria's oil. Nigeria is the fastest growing oil producer in the world with enormous potential both in quantity and, because of low sulphur content, quality...

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