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NNPC to Use Halliburton’s Neftex

Friday, July 21, 2017

NNPC’s research and development (RD) division has entered into a new partnership with US oil service firm Halliburton. The partnership allows NNPC to use Halliburton’s innovative Neftex solution to identify oil deposits in Nigeria’s inland basins.

NNPC said that the use of Neftex would enhance the search for commercial hydrocarbons, adding that the solution would quicken exploration efforts in the basins.

A statement from NNPC’s Group General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu, explained that the corporation’s Group General Manager, RD, Dr. Bola Afolabi, stated in Port Harcourt that the collaboration with Halliburton would help fast-track its inland basin oil exploration efforts using the Neftex solution designed to provide precision in drilling for crude oil.

Afolabi, was quoted to have said Halliburton’s Neftex solution would provide a geophysical mapping structure of Nigeria, and complement NNPC’s ongoing in-house efforts to develop what is known as Turonian Cenomanian Cretaceous source rock for all the basins in Nigeria.

“This essentially seeks to identify all the prolific basins in Nigeria by locating the cretaceous kitchen-areas where large crude oil deposits could be found,” said Afolabi.

He further stated: “If you take a football field for instance, there are technologies that will direct you to drill for oil within the whole field but we are using a software solution that will tell you with exactitude to drill for instance in goal post one and when you do that you find large crude oil. That is what we are seeking to achieve with Neftex solution.”


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