Major oil marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN is advocating for the initiatives that can be taken to ease the impact of the subsidy removal on the most vulnerable in the society.
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The Trade Union Congress on Tuesday took a swipe at the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, who told Nigerians to prepare for the pain associated with the increase in crude oil price.
Also, the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other stakeholders on Tuesday advised the Federal Government to use rising revenue from crude oil to tackle poverty and drive an all-inclusive growth.
The groups stated this in separate interviews with
The PUNCH while reacting to a statement by Sylva, who earlier on Tuesday warned Nigerians to expect benefits and pain from the rising price of crude oil in the world market.
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the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has urged operators in the nation’s oil and gas industry to cut the cost of production in order to survive in the face of the global energy transition.
The NNPC called on stakeholders in the industry to join in working towards reducing operations cost to achieve the $10 or less per barrel production cost target.
The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, made the call on Tuesday at the launch of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme in Abuja.
Speaking at the event, the NNPC boss said the current reality dictated by the global energy transition and demand erosion occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic has made cost optimisation imperative.
However, the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, at the launch of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme (NUCOP) in Abuja on Tuesday said Nigerians should brace up for higher fuel price.
The NUCOP launch was to find ways of reducing the cost of crude oil production and processing, officials said.
Sylva also said with no provision of subsidy in the 2021 budget, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) couldn’t continue to bear the cost of under-recovery.
“Since we are optimizing everything, NNPC needs to also think about the optimization of product cost because as we all know oil prices are where they are today, $60. As desirable as this is, this has serious consequences as well on product prices.