The Group Managing Director, GMD, of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, said the Corporation has embarked on properly and professional exploration of crude oil in the Sokoto basin alongside all other inland basins in the country.
Dr. Baru disclosed this while responding to a charge by the Sokoto State Governor, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who requested that the NNPC resume search for hydrocarbon deposit in the Sokoto Inland Sedimentary Basin with a view to establishing the volume and value of oil and gas available there.
Tambuwal who led a delegation from the State to the NNPC Towers in Abuja yesterday noted that the successful search for hydrocarbon deposit in the basin would go a long way in increasing the nation’s oil reserve with the attendant value addition.
According to the statement signed by the spokesperson of NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu, Tambuwal expressed enthusiasm that based on existing exploration records, it is likely that renewed search for oil in the basin would yield some positive results in the nearest future.
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