Nasarawa State is expected to join the league of oil-producing states in the country, as it prepares to drill its first oil well in March this year.
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer of The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, said on Friday, that the official spud-in of the first oil well in Nasarawa State will commence in March 2023.
According to Kyari, this is in continuation of hydrocarbon exploration activities in Nigeria’s inland basins.
The NNPC boss disclosed this while receiving a delegation of prominent Nasarawa State indigenes led by the governor of Nasarawa state, Abdullahi Sule, at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
Kyari stated that available data has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in Nasarawa State, and the company is ready to commence drilling the first oil well in Keana by March.
He explained that, once the Keana well proves successful, it can transform the potential of the state tremendously.
“We have carried out several exploratory activities in the form of gathering the right data and making the right decisions. We are very convinced at this point that very soon Nasarawa State will join the league of states with a hydrocarbon presence,” he said.
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“This is not far away. We believed that we will start the first well in Nasarawa State by March and this is to confirm, it’s very typical science, that once we can make a success of that well, then the potentials of Nasarawa are beyond what I can explain at this point.”
Kyari, however, warned that the process needs to be quickened as the world is now moving away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy.
