Nigerian govt seeks home-grown solutions to address petroleum industry challenges

Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil) on Monday charged stakeholders and experts in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to come up with home-grown solutions to the myriad of problems bedevilling the country’s oil and gas sector.

Mr Lokpobiri gave the charge in his address at the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Hydrocarbon Science and Technology (ICHST) tagged “The Future of the Oil and Gas Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and Development” held in Abuja on Monday.

In recent years, Nigeria has failed to meet OPEC production quotas.