The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timpre Sylva, has commended the effort of the Senegalese government in seeking Nigeria’s support for the development of its oil and gas sector.
Sylva gave the commendation while receiving the Senegalese Energy Minister, Aissitou Sophie Gladima and her delegation, in Abuja, on Monday.
“In fact, it has been proven that they cannot be responsible for our development, we have to take full responsibility of our development and that is why we are very happy that you are here today,’’ he said “That means that we have been effectively in oil production for over 60 years, that is some kind of advantage and of course a lot of lessons have been learnt.
“And also, the Nigerian involvement in the IOCs have increased very significantly to the extent that some of them have Nigerians as their Managing Directors in their Nigeria subsidiaries, like the chairman of Shell is a Nigerian,’’ he said “We are very committed to this because that is the only way to domicile the benefit of oil; if you are producing oil and all the benefits are going out of the country and nobody is participating in the country, you will not get the benefits.
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