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It was created on January 27, 1987, in Lagos, Nigeria, to serve as a platform for cooperation and harmonization of efforts, collaboration, sharing of knowledge and skills among African oil producing countries. The headquarters of the organization is in Brazzaville in the Congo. The Organization changed its name from African Petroleum Producers ...
Desidério da Graça Veríssimo e Costa (born April 4, 1934) is an Angolan politician who was Minister of Petroleum from 2002 to 2008. As Minister of Petroleum, Costa visited the China, Cuba, Venezuela, the United States and others, due to his country's expanding petroleum industry. He was the 2005-2006 chairman of the African Petroleum ...
APNPP. The APNPP, an acronym of "l’association des pays non producteurs de pétrole" [1] (in English: the "Pan-African Non-Petroleum Producers Association"), is an association of 15 African nations that signed a treaty in July 2006. Their stated aim is to work together to promote biofuel production and reduce the effects of high oil prices.
Samuel Dossou-Aworet. Samuel Dossou-Aworet (born in Porto-Novo - Benin on November 5, 1944) is a Pan-African [2] businessman Officer of the Legion of Honor and Grand Officer of the Equatorial Star. He is a petroleum engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Marseille in Petrochemistry and Industrial Organic Synthesis (IPSOI 1971) and an Engineer of the ...
Winifred Akpani OFR is a Nigerian businesswoman and entrepreneur recognized for her contributions to the oil and gas industry. She is a Chartered Accountant and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited, [3] an indigenous petroleum products marketing company based in Nigeria. [4][5]
Nigeria has a total of 159 oil fields and 1481 wells in operation according to the Department of Petroleum Resources. [16] The most productive region of the nation is the coastal Niger Delta Basin in the Niger Delta or "South-south" region, which encompasses 78 of the 159 oil fields. Most of Nigeria's oil fields are small and scattered, and in ...
NNPC was established on 1 April 1977 as a merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation and the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Resources. [2] NNPC by law manages the joint venture between the Nigerian federal government and a number of foreign multinational corporations, which include Royal Dutch Shell, Agip, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron, and Texaco (now merged with Chevron).
On 24 December 2020, [60] Samuel was elected for a one-year term as the fourth communications chair for the Young African Leaders Initiative, YALI RLC West Africa (Nigeria Alumni). She was then sworn in as publicity secretary [ 61 ] for the United States Government Exchange Alumni Association on 1 October 2021 and served until March 2024.