President Buhari has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, to intensify its search for oil in the north east
region of the country. Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru
disclosed this when Bauchi state governor Mohammed Abubakar paid him a
courtesy visit in Abuja yesterday July 25th.
According to him, President Buhari has directed the NNPC to go into that
area to improve and further explore the magnitude and prospect of
finding oil.
โYou know that very close home, we have exploration activities on the
frontier basin in the Chad and some areas close to the Kolmani river
where Shell had made some indicative discovery of hydrocarbons and Mr.
President has directed me to go into that area to reprove and further
explore the magnitude and prospectivity of those finds. We are taking
steps to re-strategize and get into those regions. We will re-invigorate
the frontier exploration and see how they collaborate with NNPC that is
holding Block A09 where some of the finds have been made and also
Department for Petroleum Resources, DPR, for the other blocks that have
not been assignedโhe said
