Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has called on Nigeria and other African countries to leverage technology and innovation to facilitate energy access and transition.
Kyari made the call in a statement issued by the company on Monday.
He said this in a lecture titled “Energy transition and energy accessibility-The new paradigm” delivered at the 30th convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger state.
The statement quoted Kyari as saying: “To achieve a seamless transition to cleaner energy, global players must promote diversification of energy sources to improve global access to energy and reduce the absolute number of people without access to energy especially in Africa,”
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“As Africa’s largest National Oil Company, we are building on the convergence of new technologies and innovative business models to guarantee access to energy for today and tomorrow.
“NNPC has set the necessary machinery to lead Africa in transition to low-carbon energy and renewables. We are deepening natural gas utilisation under the National Gas Expansion Programme.
“NNPC is currently extending natural gas infrastructure backbone from Ajaokuta in Kogi state to Kano through Abuja and Kaduna under the AKK Gas Pipeline Project.
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“This mega pipeline will be fed by both Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS) and Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) gas pipelines through Oben node in Edo state and deliver 2bscf of natural gas to power plants and industrial off-takers along Abuja, Kaduna and Kano.
“As a National Oil Company and a global player, NNPC is ready to take a front seat in the global shift to renewable energy.
“We are taking a firm position in this transition by institutionalising the necessary enablers for success.
“NNPC has established a Renewable Energy Division and has completely transformed the NNPC R&D Division to NNPC Research, Technology and Innovation as part of our key initiatives to transit to Energy Company of Global Excellence.”
