The oil and gas industry is the engine that drives the Nigerian economy. It contributes more than 90 per cent of the foreign exchange earnings and accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). However, the industry has been anything but problem free in recent years. It has been bedeviled by chronic shortages, incessant breakdown of refineries, cronyism, inefficiency, rampant corruption and haggling with the oil majors over cash call areas. Violence in the oil producing areas and sabotage of oil pipelines and flow stations have also hampered operations in recent years.
All these problems are now receiving adequate attention from the democratic government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Efforts are also been made to put accountability back into the operations of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which runs the industry for the Nigerian government. With the appointment of former Secretary General of Opec Rilwan Lukman as President Obasanjo’s Petroleum and Energy Affairs special adviser, and Jackson Gaius-Obaseki as group managing director of NNPC, the oil industry is expected to regain its luster and retain its dominance in the Nigerian economy.
In the gas sector, the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company, owned by the NNPC and some joint venture partners led by Shell, has begun shipping liquefied gas from the first train of its multi-train liquefied gas project in Bonny Island, in south east of Nigeria.
NNPC ADDRESS & CONTACT
Jackson Gaius-Obaseki Group Managing Director OR Ndu Ughamadu General Manager, Corporate Affairs Department Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Towers Central Business District Plot 639, Usuma Street, Maitama A5, Abuja Telephone: +234 09 5234760 – 61 Some Oil and Gas Companies: Nigeria LNG Limited C & C Building, Plot 1684, Sanusi Fafunwa Street P.M.B. 12774. Victoria Island, Lagos African Petroleum Plc 54/56, Broad Street, Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2600050 – 9 Fax: +234 01 2635290 Chevron Chevron Drive Lekki Pennisula Lagos P.M.B 12825, Lagos Telephone: +234 012600600, 2668002 Fax: +234 01 618120; 2600395 Eleme Petrochemical Co. Ltd Waterlines House, Aba Road, Port Harcourt Telephone: +234 084 301070 – 4 Elf Oil Limited 22b Idowu Taylor Street, V.I., Lagos. Telephone +234 01 2624956 Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd 35, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2601100 15 Fax: +234 01 615722 Kaduna Refinery & Petrochemicals Co Ltd (KRPC) Kachia Road, KM 16 Kaduna Road Kaduna Telephone: +234 062-200210 –3 Mobil Oil Plc Mobil House Lekki Expressway Victoria Island Telephone: +234 01 2621640 Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Mobil House Lekki Expressway V.I., Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2691233, 2691210, 2621640 – 90 National Engineering & Technical Co. Ltd (NETCO) 1, Ajose Adeogun Street (Stallion House) Victoria Island Lagos +234 01 2611256, 2611262, 2611270 National Oil & Chemical Marketing PLC. 38/39, Marina, Lagos Telephone +234 01 2665880 – 2 Fax: +234 01 2662802 Nigergas Limited Emene Industrial Layout Old Abakaliki Road Emene Enugu Telephone: +234 01 252695 Nigeria Agip Oil Company Ltd (NAOC) Agip House Plot PC 23 Engineering Close Victoria Island Telephone: +234 01 2600880, 92600100 – 9 Pipelines & Products Marketing Company Plot 38, Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island, Lagos Telephone: +234 01-616109, 616571 Shell Petroleum Development Co. Ltd Freemen House 21/22, Marina P.O.Box 2418 Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2601600 – 16, 2601820 – 9 Statoil Nigeria Ltd 1 Oyinkan Abayomi Drive Ikoyi, Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2603250 – 9 Fax +234 01 680833 Texaco Overseas Nig Petroleum Co. Unlimited 36, Gerrard Road Ikoyi P.O.Box 1986, Lagos Telephone: +234 01 2603210 – 9 Fax 234 01 682520