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NNPC to Extend Oil Search to Sokoto Basin

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Nigeria’s state-run oil and gas firm NNPC revealed that it has extended the search for crude oil to the Sokoto Inland Sedimentary Basin.

Sokoto Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, stated this when he received a delegation from Sokoto State, led by Governor Aminu Tambuwal in Abuja.

Baru was responding to an appeal by the governor, calling on the NNPC to activate oil and gas exploration campaign in the Sokoto Basin with a view to establishing the volume and value of hydrocarbon deposits there


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