Community leaders from host communities and scholars in the Nigeria Delta region have commended Eroton E&P for steadily helping brilliant and indigent brains in the area through its scholarship scheme. They have also called on the company and other oil companies to boost educational development by investing in schools in the area with equipment and facilities to modern standards.

Hundreds of students from secondary schools and tertiary institutions in Rivers and Bayelsa States thronged the ICT Centre in the Rivers State University to compete for slots in the Eroton Exploration and Production Limited scholarship scheme.