Northern Nigeria To Begin Oil Exploration Next Year

The New Nigeria Development Company (NNPC) owned by the 19 northern state governments has disclosed plans to commence exploration of oil and gas in the lake Chad area in North East.

Addressing Journalists shortly after the Company’s Annual General Meeting in Kaduna, the Board of directors Chairman, Alh. Bashir Mohammed Dalhaturegreted that the insecurity in the North-East has affected the take off of the exploration.

The NNDC said, “oil and gas blocks have been discovered in the North, but for security challenges in the North-east exploration will have gone far.”

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