African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation APPO has described Nigeria and its African neighbours as the biggest victims of the speedy energy transition being championed by the developed world.
Speaking at the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Hydrocarbon Science and Technology, organised by the Petroleum Training Institute in Abuja on Monday, the Secretary-General, African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation, Omar Farouk, said the nations of Africa were being coerced to stop the exploration of fossils.
He, however, pointed out that Nigeria and other nations on the continent owe their people a duty to utilise the abundant oil and gas resources in their various domains for the development of their economies.
In his remark, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, charged participants at the gathering to come up with solutions to address the problem in the Nigerian oil sector regardless of the global push against fossils.
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