Business Northern Oil Exploration Will Generate 1 Million Jobs for Benue Citizens- NNPC

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The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has stated that the oil exploration and biofuel projects in Benue state will generate up to one million jobs for citizens of the area.

He mentioned this when he paid a visit to the governor of the state on Wednesday.

He said his visit is to officially "kick-start the beginning of a high profile stakeholder engagement with a view to actualising the two critical projects which are expected to launch Benue into the league of oil producing States.”

He added that “due to encouraging results of previous geological studies, basin modeling, aeromagnetic, ground gravity and surface geochemistry surveys, success of ongoing acquisition of seismic data in the Benue Trough will lead to the drilling of oil wells in the State.”

He also noted that a contractor, Integrated Data Services Ltd, IDSL, would be going round to carry out a seismic acquisition campaign with heavy equipment where they would be laying long cables with geophones and sued for the protection of the equipment from vandals.
 

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