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Thursday, July 6, 2017
NNPC plans to relaunch drilling activities in the Benue Trough. According to the company, seismic activities are currently taking place in the region.
Speaking in a podcast message to NNPC staff to mark the one-year anniversary of his appointment as the Group managing director of the state oil company, Maikanti Baru, said drilling in the country’s northeast will begin in Q4. According to him, seismic data acquisition is being carried out by Integrated Data Services limited (IDSL) and its partners in line with the government’s target to boost the country’s reserves base.
He added that the corporation is also planning to resume drilling in another basin in the northeast. “We are working with the security agencies for an early return to the Chad Basin. Drilling activities will be a priority on resumption while continuing with seismic data acquisition with improved parameters,” Baru said.
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