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Pipeline Surveillance Contracts and Political Economy of Rent Distribution in Nigeria’s Oil Sector, 2015-2025

This study examines the political economy of pipeline surveillance contracts (PSCs) and their role in shaping rent distribution within Nigeria’s oil sector between 2015 and 2025. While PSCs are officially designed to curb pipeline vandalism and oil theft, they have evolved into complex mechanisms for redistributing oil rents among state actors, ex-militants, private security firms, and host communities in the Niger Delta. Anchored in Rentier State Theory and Clientelist Theory, the study interrogates how these contracts operate within Nigeria’s broader rentier political structure, where access…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
Date	2026-04-30
Type	article
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Found at	https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v9-i4-89
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Pipeline Surveillance Contracts and Political Economy of Rent Distribution in Nigeria’s Oil Sector, 2015-2025. OpenAlex research, 2026. Vero Archive, record openalex:W7160205167.