Muhammadu Buharis MANIFESTO SERIES VI - OIL & GAS INDUSTRY I, Muhammadu Buhari believe that our polity, is broken. Our nation is in urgent need of a fundamental political reform. This requires honesty, integrity and forthrightness in order to improve governance, so as to make it transparent and accountable to the all Nigerian. THIS IS HOW I, WITH YOUR HELP, WILL FIX IT:... On the Oil and Gas Industry: I will Revive and reactivate our minimally performing Refineries to optimum capacity; Make the industry and Nigeria one of the world leading/cutting edge centres for clean oil and gas technology; also producing leading world Oil and Gas technologists, scientists, and owning mega structure installations, drilling, processing, and production facilities and engineers. These facilities and scientists will be supported with the best services and research facilities. Fully develop the sector’s capacity to absorb more of the nation’s new graduates in the labour market. The sector will be funded to produce more home-grown, but world class engineers, scientists, technologists.. Modernise the NNPC and make it the national energy champion. I will consider breaking it up into more efficient, commercially driven units; and may strip it of its regulatory powers, so as to enable it tap into international capital market; Enforce the government master plan for oil companies to end flaring that pollutes the air and damages the communities and people’s health and ensure that they sell at least half of their gas produced within Nigeria; Speedily pass the much-delayed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and ensure that local content issues are fully addressed Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of LNG through the creation of strategic partnerships. MY TAKE: This to me is number 3 priority for us as a country. It is still grossly embarrassing that Nigeria imports refined petrol despite our status as a crude oil producing nation. And now that we have a man with vast experience in the oil and gas sector as the incoming President; we must return to our previous role as a net exporter of refined petrol just as it was being done when GMB was the Head of State. Hence, the #BuhariOsinbajo 2015 team must come up with measurable plans and targets for the country in our drive to end petrol importation as soon as possible. For instance, 50% produced locally in 2015; 75% of local consumption in 2016 and 100% target attainment by 2017 and we should be exporting refined petrol by 2018. A special team must be set up to start working on this as a government in waiting. This is time for action for CHANGE IS HERE! Cc This Is Buhari
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:54:26 +0000
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