BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and other stakeholders are to attend the annual conference of National Association of Energy Correspondents on August 20
EMMANUEL Ibe Kachikwu, group managing director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, will be leading federal Government delegation to the annual August conference of the National Association of Energy Correspondents, NAEC, holding on Thursday, August 20, in Lagos.
A statement signed by Yunus Yusuf, NAEC chairman, said that international oil companies, IOCs, downstream oil and gas operators, independent producers, new owners of the privatised power assets and other stakeholders, would also be at the conference to proffer solutions to issues to be discussed.
The NNPC boss, captains of industry and other industry chief executives as well as the lawmakers, are expected to brainstorm on the ways to address deregulation of the downstream challenges and ways to tackle gas supply challenges in the power sector.
The conference is expected to provide a veritable platform for the government and the industry operators to rub minds on the ways to address energy crisis sustainability towards the development of the country and the anticipated downstream deregulation transformation and how best to achieve them for the benefit of all stakeholders and the economy.
The conference will take holistic look at government’s positions and policies in the downstream sub-sector of the oil and gas and power industries and the stand of various key stakeholders on these policies as well as the way forward.
The chairman said Kachikwu would deliver the keynote address and also present the lead paper.
This year’s conference is segmented into two technical sessions, with the main theme: “Energy Crisis and Sustainable Development in Nigeria; The Way Forward”.
The Sub-themes are as follows: “Deregulation: A key To Sustainable Development in the Oil and Gas Sector” and “Tackling Gas Supply Challenges to Arrest Power Crisis”.
Discussants at the conference include Aliko Dangote, president Dangote Group, Professor Bart Nnaji, former minister of power and chairman of Geometric Power Ltd., John Neizner, Kaztec Engineering Limited, Ransome Owen, group managing director, Aiteo Power, Frank Edozie, former special adviser on Gas to Chinedu Nebo, Dallas M. Peavey, managing director/chief executive officer, Egbin Power, Sam Amadi, chairman of NERC, Thomas Dada, chief executive officer, Frontier Oil, Benjamin Dikki, director-general, Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, Abiodun Ogunleye, managing director, PowerCap Nigeria Limited..
Others include Tunji Oyebanji, managing directors, Mobil Producing Nigeria, Alex Vovk, Total Nigeria Plc, Farouk Ahmed, Executive Secretary, PPPRA, Muda Yusuf, director general, Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Femi Olawore, executive secretary, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria ,MOMAN, and President of PENGASSAN, Comrade Francis Johnson.
Deji Haastrup, general Manger, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, PGPA, Chevron Nigeria Limited, chairman of the conference.
— August 15, 2015 @ 7:30 GMT
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