(L-R)
Mrs Ngozi Okoye, SSA Oil & Gas, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former Vice
President, Dr. Emmanuel Egboga, former Presidential Adviser on
Petroleum, Chief Willie Obiano, Governor of Anambra State, Chief Emeka
Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary General and Chief Cletus Ibeto,
Industrialist during a courtesy call by the Board of Orient Petroleum on
the governor at the Governor's Lodge, Amawbia...at the weekend
Orient
Petroleum Resources Plc has concluded plans to increase the production
of crude oil in its wells to 3000 barrels per day in September this
year. The company has also hatched a plan with an indigenous company
known as Nails & Stanley Ltd to establish a gas plant in Umueje in
Ayamelum Local Government Area of the state.
Offering
insight into the development during a recent meeting between the Board
of Directors of the company and the governor of Anambra State, Chief
Willie Obiano in the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, the Managing Director of
the company, Engr. Sunny Okoye revealed that Orient had revved up
activities in two new oil wells in its Aguleri oilfields that would
shore up the company’s production capacity to 3000bpd before September
this year.
According
to him, Orient is not only working assiduously on boosting the
production capacity of its oil wells, the company is also developing the
vast gas resources in the state. “We are dealing with gas development
on two fronts. The first one is the gas production we have right now,
side by side with oil. We are looking at how to transform it to an
income earning resource,” Engr. Okoye explained.
The
oil chieftain also revealed that it was the drive to turn its gas
resources into an income earner that informed the partnership it
recently struck with Nails & Stanley in order to produce Compressed
Natural Gas (CPG) that is used for industrial power as well as powering
automobiles and a sundry other activities.
Said
he; “We are engaging Nails & Stanley for that. They are on track to
install their compressor cans very soon and as soon as we are ready to
flag their operations off in the state. We are going to develop the ANU
Gas Field. We have a well which we are going to use to produce
sufficient gas for increased power production in Anambra State. That’s
the second plank of our gas development plan.”
Engr.
Okoye also revealed that Nails & Stanley is a wholly owned
indigenous company operated by some illustrious Anambra indigenes who
are eager to lend a weighty hand to on-going efforts to build a
prosperous Anambra State.
Ifeanyi AniagohExecutive Assistant to Gov Willie Obiano on Social Media
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