The Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, in this interview on Arise TV which was monitored by THE WHISTLER spoke on the NNPC’s footprints in the oil and gas industry, the impact of the projects being implemented by the National Oil Company, and how the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 has served as an enabler in positioning the NNPC to achieve it’s mandate of energy security for Nigeria. EXCERPTS…
Indeed NNPC has carried out very successful projects. The NNPC is an organization that is responsible for managing the government’s upstream sector. And we have done this very successfully. We grew production to 2.4 million barrels in 2019, which was one of the highest we have attained in the history of NNPC. And that didn’t just come by accident but it was a concerted effort over the years.
