By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja –
Nigeria can overcome the challenges of environmental hazards posed by the exploration activities in the Oil and Gas industry, particularly in the oil producing areas with the deployment of adequate machinery, including human and material resources.
The Country is believed to have the human capacity that is needed to transform the oil and gas sector if persons with professional expertise are placed in strategic positions of authority to formulate policies and drive the industry toward realizing its full potential.
This is the view expressed by a consummate International Oil and Gas expert, Alhaji Sadiq Abubakar Adamu, who played a leading role in the success recorded by Qatar in the development of its oil industry.
Adamu, while speaking with newsmen over the weekend in Abuja, said the country can replicate the success achieved by Qatar and other oil-producing nations, by transforming the challenge of gas flaring in the Niger Delta Region into an advantage and end the menace with proper policies backed by political will.
He stated that the country needs to convert its gas being wasted in the form of flaring which is hazardous into a source of energy and solve the perennial problem of epileptic power supply across the nation.
He further added that Nigeria has huge natural gas potential and is in fact often referred to in geological terms as a gas country with few oil deposits.
“Even with the horrors of gas flaring and the few LNG and NGL projects so far developed, Nigeria is yet to tap into two percent (2%) of its proven One Hundred and Ninety Two Trillions cubic feet (192 TCF) of natural gas. With global demand currently at 120 TCF and growing, Nigeria could deftly play the go-bride in this huge demand pool with significant benefits for the nation.
” All that is needed is the political will and expert deployment of management skills to turn this energy of the future to Nigeria’s fattest revenue cash cow and solid foundation for industrialization”, he said.
Adamu who is an international oil and gas professional,a member of the Multi-Billion Dollars RasGas and Qatar natural Gas team, who led the Committee that structured and developed the Qatar Condensate Refinery, also said, it is time for the country to harness its huge oil and gas deposits for the benefit of the citizenry.
The Taraba State born Harvard -trained oil and gas guru, whose sojourn in the industry spans over two decades, began his blossoming career with Mobil Corporation, Virginia, in the United States of America (USA), after his graduating top of his class from the prestigious Harvard University in 1992 with a Masters Degree in Law, has also worked for the multi-national oil and gas firm in several countries including United Arab Emirate (UAE).
He explained that Nigeria needs to urgently utilize her huge gas deposits by initiating policies and innovations that would monetize its enormous unassociated gas and to, as a matter of national urgency, permanently end gas flaming and convert these rich resources to benefit its generations yet to come.
According to him, it is only by driving friendly initiatives and also appointing thorough-breed professionals with the requisite skills, exposure, and commitment that the populace will enjoy the natural resources that nature has endowed the country with.
A skillful negotiator, Alhaji Adamu, has successfully brokered multi-billion dollar financing for Exxon Mobil projects in several countries across the globe.
The legal luminary cum oil and gas technocrat has provided legal support for procurement from the International financing market of more than 15 Billion Dollars for Exxon Mobil projects in Nigeria.
Adamu, who is the Chairman Board of Directors of Oil Dyanmix Limited, and a Director of Sidler Dynamic Engineering Limited, an International Oil and Gas firm, among several other businesses, commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his decisive actions, saying that such policies would engender growth and development in the oil and gas sector of the economy.
He canvassed support for the Administration and said all well-meaning citizens should support the government to deliver on its lofty campaign promises of; jobs creation, building of infrastructure, and social safety nates for the less privileged.
The Taraba State-born oil mogul, who is also a philanthropist of repute, has experience in the hydrocarbon development industry, cut across Management, Legal support, Upstream and Midstream, Natural Gas monetization -domestic, International Planning, and Sales.
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