The President of Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Mr Ajibola Oyebamiji, has said the search for oil and gas accumulations outside the Niger Delta was set to receive a boost as the body plans a national workshop on basins.
Oyebamiji said in a statement in Lagos that NAPE was bringing together representatives from local and international oil and gas companies, government agencies and the academia to a two-day workshop with the theme: “Cretaceous Basin in Nigeria’’.
He said that the Niger Delta basin was the source of all the oil accumulations been produced in Nigeria.
According to him, these cretaceous basins are Dahomey Basin, Anambra Basin, Bida Basin, Sokoto basin, Chad Basin, Benue Trough and its components.
Oyebamiji said the workshop was being put together to engender and renew interest in basins outside the Niger Delta, which started exploration before oil was discovered at Oloibiri.
He said the workshop would also complement the Federal Government’s aspirations of 40 billion barrel oil reserve and two million barrels daily production output by 2025.
The workshop which holds between May 6 and May 7 in Abuja will discuss among others global rift setting overview and analogs.
Other issues to be discussed include Pre- Cambrian Basement Impact on the Evolution of the Cretaceous Basins; Geophysics and Basin Architecture; Stratigraphy and Depositional systems; Geochemistry and Basin Modeling and Exploration activities.
Speakers at the workshop include Dr Ebi Omatsola, former Vice Chairman, Conoil & Chairman Workshop Planning Committee; Dr Harry Doust, an International Oil & Gas Expert & a Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Dr Kehinde Ladipo of Lekoil Limited and Prof. Omar Rahaman, Geology Professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.
The two-day workshop is being held to NAPE’s flagship annual international conference and exhibition taking place between Nov. 17 to Nov 21 in Lagos, this year.
