Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday said the volume of crude oil discovered in Benue Trough was in commercial quantity.

It said Nigerian geologists were spearheading efforts in the discovery of the commodity in the trough.

The corporation’s Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja by NNPC’s spokesperson, Kennie Obateru.

In October last year, NNPC announced the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin, in the North Eastern part of Nigeria.

In its statement on Thursday, the NNPC said it would grow the nation’s hydrocarbon reserves to 40 billion barrels through reinvigorated exploratory activities in the inland frontier basins across the country.

Kyari said the strategy was to aggressively explore for more oil in the frontier basins in order to grow the nation’s reserve base in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to hit the 40 billion barrels reserve target.

He said NNPC’s key aspiration was to grow the nation’s hydrocarbon reserves, reduce unit operating cost of crude oil production to $10 per barrel and improve efficiency across its businesses.

He was quoted as saying, “It is my pleasure to appreciate the good work and resilience of our in-house professionals in the ongoing inland basins exploration activities that culminated in the recent discovery of hydrocarbons in Benue Trough.



https://punchng.com/crude-in-commercial-quantity-discovered-in-benue-trough-nnpc/

Cc: Mynd44, Lalasticlala.

Now you are talking omenka! No place like home.
Congrats to the thieves in government!

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Good. North can now stop imposing COWS on our national life.


Too much resources needed to develop this country go to the North, whose population is predominantly made up of religious extremists.
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Nigeria is caused with oil, the very reason this country had been devoid of progress because political fools has been enriched with oil money making even the genius among us all lazy and prone to find shortcuts to making it, the very decay in our ingenuity, no true invention ever came easy, we need to discard these quick money resources for our dear country and face a phase of purification, not only does crude oil pollute our environment both also our government and above all, it darkens the mind of geniuses into shortcuts than true inventions

Bad news for benue and for Nigeria

1.Benue will just become another oil dependent state at the expense of its.agricultural potential and industrial potential

2. Oil is even on tbe way out.

hehe

No wonder them rush

Kill "Gana"

No Asari Dokubo

How I wish it is Kano so the core North can push for breakup and leave the south and middle belt alone

Is been there for a very long time.

Olofin2:
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Good. North can now stop imposing COWS on our national life.


Too much resources needed to develop this country go to the North, whose population is predominantly made up of religious extremists.
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Pot calling kettle black?

People are going green but the bastard thieves want to die in oil Because it's the easiest way to steal money without breaking a sweat

Op is a yoruba man pretending to be from benue. You will neva see him condemn the killings in benue or condemn buhari and herdsmen but type tinubu speaks and you Will see him attacking you like tinubu his is father.

Nice development! Guess they're aware the world have long moved away from oil to alternate energy source. Crude oil is now obsolete.

Meanwhile, they know this fact for a long time but the NNPC choose to go on a fruitless exploration in the BH terrorist infested Lake Chad Basin & other unviable locations up north.

Benue is igbo land-ipob

These ones are still talking about crude oil.How backward can a people be.

Great development. Crude oil will continue to be relevant in the world for years to come.

PhiliptheArab:
Bad news for benue and for Nigeria

1.Benue will just become another oil dependent state at the expense of its.agricultural potential and industrial potential

2. Oil is even on tbe way out.

Nope
Farming is Benue's culture and tradition, so no one is shifting to oil.

Continue!!! very soon, crude oil will be hawk in table water plastic across Nigeria


The ones that has been in existence what achievement have we derived from it?

Racoon:
Nice development! Guess they're aware the world have long moved away from oil to alternate energy source.Crude oil is now obsolete.

Meanwhile, they know this fact for a long time but the NNPC choose to go on a fruitless exploration in the BH terrorist infested Lake Chad Basin & other unviable locations up north.

Mitcheeew
Oil will be relevant for at least another 100 years.
Forget about that electric car shiit, it's not only cars that use oil

Kyase:
Benue is igbo land-ipob

That's north oga not igbo

Tho middle belt but it' was zoned to North central

Crude oil everywhere still poverty remains widespread.

Five states in the SS have oil.
Three states in the SE have oil.
One state in the SW has oil.

Now North is discovering theirs but is coming when oil has become worthless in the international market.

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Kyase:
Benue is igbo land-ipob

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princemillla:



That's north oga not igbo

Tho middle belt but it' was zoned to North central

e be like say you no understand wetin I dey talk

Kyase:

Nope
Farming is Benue's culture and tradition, so no one is shifting to oil.

That's what many countries and territories before you have said.....

But the truth is, a barrel of oil can fetch you more hard currency than a barrel of yam.

On a more serious note if Benue can direct some of that oil money to mechanized farming, I'll be impressed

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Kyase:
e be like say you no understand wetin I dey talk

[/s] shatap.
We don't need your sarcasm

History555:
Op is a yoruba man pretending to be from benue. You will neva see him condemn the killings in benue or condemn buhari and herdsmen but type tinubu speaks and you Will see him attacking you like tinubu his is father.

What has Tinubu or Yoruba got to do with this again? Them take Tinubu swear for una ni?

Btw, Benue trough is not Benue state. You guys should stop confusion the two.

Juliusmalema:
Same story every year

what happened to bauchi own?

We won't touch it, until we finish the one in Niger delta
Or when Nigeria finally break (not likely sha)

AlexBells:
Nigeria is caused with oil, the very reason this country had been devoid of progress because political fools has been enriched with oil money making even the genius among us all lazy and prone to find shortcuts to making it, the very decay in our ingenuity, no true invention ever came easy, we need to discard these quick money resources for our dear country and face a phase of purification, not only does crude oil pollute our environment both also our government and above all, it darkens the mind of geniuses into shortcuts than true inventions

Truth!

PhiliptheArab:


That's what many countries and territories before you have said.....

But the truth is, a barrel of oil can fetch you more hard currency than a barrel of yam.

On a more serious note if Benue can direct some of that oil money to mechanized farming, I'll be impressed

With those useless leaders in Benue....?
Benue produce the worse leaders in the world, maybe after abia sha

Kyase:


With those useless leaders in Benue....?
Benue produce the worse leaders in the world, maybe after abia sha

Maybe you can be their replacement?

seunmsg:
Great development. Crude oil will continue to be relevant in the world for years to come.

Gandollaar:
Now you are talking omenka! No place like home.
Congrats to the thieves in government!

well the crude oil there belongs to the people of Benue.
Resource control has already started.
The Federal Government should take their eyes off it cos it belongs to the TIVs and the Idomas