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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
NNPC has launched exploration in Nigeria’s Nasarawa state. The company’s Group Managing Director, MaikantiBaru, announced this development in Lafia during a visit to the governor of Nasarawa State, UmaruTankoAlmakura.
Dr. Baru stated that the visit was in fulfillment of the presidential mandate which directed NNPC to resume oil exploration activities in some of the nation’s inland basins which include the Chad Basin and the Benue Trough, which in turn will help Nigeria increase its oil and gas reserves.
Dr. Baru added that the move was also in line with NNPC’s corporate vision of 12 Business Focus Areas, informing Governor Almakura that the NNPC team was in Nasarawa to sensitize the government and people of the state on the mission.
“I am therefore happy to be personally here to kick-start the beginning of a high-profile stakeholder engagement towards oil exploration in the Nasarawa State’s part of the Benue Trough,” he stated.
He assured that as a responsible corporate organization, NNPC through its Frontier Exploration Services (FES) would do everything possible to operate peacefully among the people and with much respect to the environment.
NNPC’s FES already has mobilized its Integrated Data Services Ltd (IDSL), an upstream arm of NNPC, to acquire seismic data in the Benue Trough commencing from the Keana area.
“I am convinced that the success of the results from IDSL’s seismic data acquisition will lead to the drilling of exploration wells in the area, which hopefully, would launch Nasarawa state into the league of oil producing states in the country,” Dr. Baru stated.
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