BY CHRIS OCHAYI

ABUJA: The management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has expressed its determination to deliver commercial value for the Federal Government’s gas revolution agenda to ensure efficient gas-to-power, gas-to-industry, and sufficient gas for domestic consumption.

The Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, made this assertion during the combined opening ceremony of the batches 073 to 079capacity building programme of the NNPC tagged, Chief Officers Management Development Programme in Abuja.

Yakubu noted that the NNPC is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that the abundant gas value chain is explored maximally stressing that the Corporation must do everything possible to make the Gas Revolution agenda succeed in every ramification.

He challenged the participants to come up with creative ways of dealing with the target of fully monetising the gas resource of the nation, which remains a crucial deliverable in the Gas Revolution.

He emphasized that management was fully committed to supporting the capacity development programme, and will continue to provide all resources required to sustain its growth.

Delivering a lecture on, “Gas Commercialisation and Economic Growth,” Prof. Pat Utomi of the Lagos Business School, LBS, posited that the NNPC is required to deliver on the mandate of the gas-to-power strategy and effectiveness.

He asserted that there was every need for the NNPC to build human capital focused at the gas knowledge economy that will ensure domestic gas utilisation and provision of strong gas infrastructure to protect the environment and bottle the gas for effective consumption.

The Group Executive Director, Corporate Services, Dr. Dan Efebo, assured the participants of the preparedness of management to expose them to knowledge that will deliver on the various core mandates of the Corporation.

The Chief Officer’s Management Development Programme, COMDP, batches 073-079 comprises of a total of 375 participants, who are expected to run a 4-module programme, which includes leadership, problem solving research work, oil and gas fundamentals, and emerging trends in oil and gas industry.