Nigeria
is “on the verge of a significant oil find” in the Lake Chad area of
the northeast, NNPC managing director Ibe Kachikwu was quoted as saying
in a statement issued by the state oil company on Sunday.
Kachikwu, who is to be sworn in to
President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet on Wednesday and is widely expected
to become junior oil minister, also said the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is projecting revenues of $20 billion in
2016.
Africa’s biggest economy has been
hammered by the sharp drop in global oil prices, because it relies on
crude exports for around 70 percent of government revenues.
“There are signs from the latest 3D
seismic studies that oil may be very close to being found now in Lake
Chad,” Kachikwu was quoted as saying in a statement issued by NNPC
spokesman Ohi Alegbe.
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