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    France plans €1billion investment in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry

    June 28, 2017
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    *French Ambassador to Nigeria, Denys Gauer.

    Oscarline Onwuemenyi

    28 June 2017, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The French government has said that it has set aside about one billion Euros to be invested in the Nigeria oil and gas industry, stating that Nigeria remains her first economic trading partner in Africa.

    The French Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Mr. Denys Gauer, declared this when the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division (GPAD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, led a delegation to his office in Abuja.

    Mr. Gauer said that the French Development Agency has put in place about one billion Euros to encourage French investors to invest in the Nigeria oil and gas sector, adding that the French government is also cooperating with the Federal Government in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency.

    The French Ambassador commended the Federal Government for stemming the Niger Delta insecurity situation noting that Total, a French multinational oil and gas company, had significant investment equity in the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) and Egina project.

    He, however, expressed concern that some other French companies were having challenges with the unclear Nigeria’s fiscal policies in the oil and gas sector revealing that some French investors were currently developing wind energy and solar energy in Katsina State.

    Earlier, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, said the corporation under the current management led by the Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, was well positioned and open to investment opportunities from the French government and investors.

    Mr. Ughamadu noted that with the significant scale down in pipeline vandalism and insecurity which has boosted oil production, global investors such as the French government can now invest in renewable energy, gas and power infrastructural development, pipeline construction, storage facility and the direct sales and direct purchase of Nigeria crude oil grades.

    He said the NNPC, as the state owned oil and gas corporation, had global operations and called for closer collaboration between the French government and the corporation especially in the area of consular services in order to enable NNPC top executives and staff meet their global engagements.

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