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It monitors the oil and gas industry to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and laws. [1] It also oversees the safety and other regulations that relate to the exportation and importation of the products into the country. [2] As part of its activities, the department manages the upstream and downstream sectors in Nigeria petroleum ...
The president of Nigeria as of 2023, Bola Tinubu, has taken steps to privatize the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Decades of government ownership and control of the industry left the people at large impoverished and unable to experience any of the economic gain related to oil and gas exploration and extraction, Tinubu hopes that privatization ...
In 1971, the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC) was created to handle direct commercial operational activities in the oil industry on behalf of the Federal Government. [4] However, the Department of Petroleum Resources in the Federal Ministry of Mines and Power continued to exercise statutory supervision and control of the industry.
The following is a list of agencies in the government of Nigeria. ... Oil and Gas Free Zones ... The Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF ...
According to the Nigerian constitution, all minerals, gas, and oil the country possesses are legally the property of the Nigerian Federal Government. The revenue gained by the NNPC accounts for 76% of federal government revenue [16] and 40% of the entire country's GDP. As of 2000, oil and gas exports account for 98% of Nigerian export earnings ...
Oil and gas in Nigeria. The first oil well in Nigeria was drilled in 1958 in Oloibiri [12] which is present day Bayelsa State. This acted as a milestone for the production of oil and gas in Nigeria and the emergence of the country as a top oil & gas producer globally. In 2022, Nigeria was still Africa's biggest oil producer and one of the ...
Pakistan: Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) is the primary Oil & Gas Regulator Established under the OGRA Ordinance, 2002 for regulating the midstream and downstream Oil & Gas Sector in the country for regulated activities pertaining to issuance of Licences, Revenue Requirements and Tariff Determination for Oil & Gas molecules sold by the ...
The agency is a parastatal established by the "Lagos State government law NO 13 of July and published in the official gazette NO 23 volume 37 of 27th August, 2004", [2] under the supervision of the Lagos State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure. [3] LASIMRA was established by the then Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. [2]