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The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) says it would soon begin the search for oil and other
valuable hydrocarbon deposits in the Sokoto Inland Sedimentary Basin.
Group
Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru, disclosed this when he
received Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, in his office in Abuja
yesterday. Governor Tambuwal was at the corporation to canvass for the
search for oil in the state.
"We are here
more on an advocacy visit to your office, Mr. GMD, to kindly request for
your intervention and attention for the office in charge of frontier
exploration to pay attention to Sokoto basin just the way attention is
being paid to other basins in the country" Governor Tambuwal said.
Responding,
Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru explained that the
Corporation, without any prompting has since embarked on properly and
professional exploration of all inland basins in the country including
the Sokoto basin.
He noted that the NNPC had
already procured aeromagnetic data on the Sokoto basin from the Nigerian
Geophysical Survey as well as awarded contract for the mapping and
procurement of apt samples to further the understanding of the area.
Dr.
Baru informed that the NNPC has contracted its subsidiary, Integrated
Data Services Limited, IDSL to carry out various geochemistry
investigation to boost the gathering and integration of all relevant
data ahead of the planned procurement of seismic 2D data position which
would in turn determine various prospects.
The
GMD also pledged to attend the forthcoming seminar on the Sokoto basin,
noting that the Corporation would use the platform to update and also
share its knowledge of the basin with relevant stakeholders.
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