NNPC
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 The NNPC Towers | |
| Company type | Government owned |
|---|---|
| Industry | Oil and gas |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Headquarters | NNPC Towers, Herbert Macaulay Way, CBD, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria |
Key people |
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| Products | |
| Website | nnpcgroup |
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is a state-owned oil company in Nigeria. Still a fully-owned government company, it was transformed from a corporation into a limited liability company in July 2022.[1] NNPC Limited is the only entity licensed to operate in the country's petroleum industry. It partners with foreign oil companies to explore Nigeria's fossil fuel resources. The NNPC, with an asset of $153B (USD), is the largest national oil company in Africa. The company boasts of extensive infrastructure and investment in the downstream, midstream and upstream of the Nigerian petroleum industry.
History
[edit][2] NNPC by law manages the joint venture between the Nigerian federal government and a number of foreign multinational corporations, which include Royal Dutch Shell, Agip, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron, and Texaco (now merged with Chevron). Through collaboration with these companies, the Nigerian government conducts petroleum exploration and production.[2]
The NNPC Towers, located in Abuja, serves as the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The complex consists of four identical towers and is situated on Herbert Macaulay Way in the Central Business District of Abuja. NNPC also maintains zonal offices in cities including Lagos, Kaduna, Benin City, Port Harcourt, and Warri. Additionally, it operates an international office in London, United Kingdom.[3]
In October 2019, NNPC announced the signing of a $2.5 billion pre-payment agreement with Nigeria LNG to fund upstream gas development projects.[4]
In December 2021, the Federal Government of Nigeria and NNPC Ltd signed a ₦621 billion Memorandum of Understanding to finance the construction of critical road infrastructure across the country.[5]
Following passage of a Petroleum Industry Act in August 2021, NNPC now operates as a commercial entity without relying on government funding and direct controls. NNPC was established as a limited liability corporation in the hopes that a private entity will find it easier to access international capital markets. The company will continue to ensure energy security in Nigeria.[6] On 27 June 2024, it delivered its first DES LNG Cargo at Futtsu, Japan.[7]
Leadership
[edit]On April 2, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dissolved the board of NNPC Limited and appointed Bayo Ojulari as the new group chief executive officer(GCEO). Ahmadu Musa Kida was appointed the new non-executive chairman, replacing Chief Pius Akinyelure.[8]
Subsequently, on May 22, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu officially inaugurated the new board and executive leadership at a ceremony held at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The 11-member board comprises representatives from Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, including:
- Non-Executive Chairman: Ahmadu Musa Kida
- Group Chief Executive Officer: Bashir Ojulari
Board Members:
- Adedapo Segun (North West)
- Bello Rabiu (North West)
- Yusuf Usman (North East)
- Babs Omotowa (North Central), former Managing Director of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas
- Austin Avuru (South-South), Non-Executive Director
- David Ige (South-West)
- Henry Obih (South-East)
- Lydia Jafiya, Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance (Ministry’s representative)
- Aminu Ahmed (Ministry of Petroleum Resources representative) [9]
The Group Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Ojulari, has since resumed his duties and represented NNPCL at various official events, including an empowerment program for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.[10]
Organisational structure
[edit]The NNPC's business operations are managed through Strategic Business and Corporate Services Units (SBUs/CSUs) in diverse locations across Nigeria. In that case; The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation initiated a recruitment scheme and since then, until date the NNPC recruitment have been a yearly scheme.[11]
The NNPC Group comprises the NNPC Board, the group managing director's office, Five directorates as listed below. Each of the directorate is headed by an executive vice president (EVP). Its divisions are headed by chiefs, while its subsidiary companies are headed by managing directors.[12] NNPC has several subsidiaries, two partly owned subsidiaries and 16 associated companies.
Directorates:
- Upstream
- Downstream
- Gas, Power and New Energy
- Finance
- Business Services
Strategic Business & Corporate Services Units:
| SBU's/CSU's | SBU's/CSU's |
|---|---|
| NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services (NUIMS) | NNPC Trading Limited (NTL) |
| Corporate Secretariat, Legal Division | NNPC Exploration & Production Limited (NEPL) |
| Strategy and Sustainability | NNPC Energy Services Limited (Enserv) |
| Corporate Communications | NNPC Retail Limited (NRL) |
| Human Capital Management | NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company (NGIC) |
| Information Technology Division | NNPC Gas Marketing Company Limited (NGML) |
| NNPC Foundation | Kaduna Refining & Petrochemicals Company |
| Leadership Academy | Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company |
| Financial Controller | Port Harcourt Refining Company PHRC |
| Treasury | Gas & Power Investments Services |
| NNPC Pipeline & Storage Company (NPSC) | |
| NNPC Properties | |
| NNPC Shipping Limited | |
| NNPC Engineering & Technical Company (NETCO) | |
| NNPC Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) | |
| NNPC Medical Services Limited (NMSL) | |
| NNPC Pension Fund |
NNPC acquired Oando's OVH Energy in September 2022 and took over its 380 filling stations.[13]
Installations
[edit]NNPC has sole responsibility for upstream and downstream developments. In 1988, the corporation was commercialised into 11 strategic business units, covering the entire spectrum of oil industry operations: exploration and production, gas development, refining, distribution, petrochemicals, engineering, and commercial investments.[14]
Legal premise
[edit]According to the Nigerian constitution, all minerals, gas, and oil the country possesses are legally the property of the Nigerian Federal Government. The revenue gained by the NNPC accounts for 76% of federal government revenue[13] and 40% of the entire country's GDP. As of 2000, oil and gas exports account for 98% of Nigerian export earnings.[15]
Transparency at the NNPC
[edit]NNPC Bags Transparency Award
[edit]The efforts of the Mallam Mele Kyari-led Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to entrench the culture of transparency in the system have begun to receive recognition with the Corporation named as the “Government Agency of the Year 2020 (Transparency)” by the New Telegraph.[14]
NNPC, NEITI Set Up Joint Committee to Strengthen Transparency
[edit]In keeping with the Transparency, Accountability, and Performance Excellence (TAPE) agenda of the Mele Kyari-led management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the corporation and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) have set up a joint committee to deepen collaboration in order to promote transparency in the Oil and Gas Industry.
Speaking at the inauguration of the NNPC-NEITI Joint Committee on Mainstreaming and Remedial Issues, group managing director of NNPC, Kyari, said the joint committee was part of efforts to further deepen the robust history of collaboration that both organisations had enjoyed over the years.
He said NNPC was in complete sync with the activities of NEITI because it was the right of the over 200 million Nigerians who are the shareholders of the corporation to know everything about the operations of their company.[16]
Mele Kyari: Matching action with words 365 days on
[edit]Stakeholders continue to commend the commitment and speed with which the NNPC boss has been carrying out his assignment.
According to the head of Nigeria's extractive industry watchdog NEITI, Waziri Adio, the decision of NNPC to make public its audited accounts on its website for the first time in its history is laudable. Just as the executive director of the global Extractive Industries Transparency International's (EITI), Mr. Mark Robinson, commended the corporation for setting a new standard of reporting.
Also, Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Mr. Lateef Amodu, said, in one year, Kyari has been able to stabilise the industry through robust policies that have helped stakeholders make informed investment decisions.[17]
NNPC Limited is ranked seventh (7th position) on LinkedIn's 25 best companies to work in Nigeria in 2023.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "NNPC Limited ends operations as govt corporation". Premium Times. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ a b Nwokeji, G. Ugo (2007). The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Development of The Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: History, Strategies and Current Directions (PDF). Rice University: The James A. Baker III Institute For Public Policy, Rice University. p. 16.
- ^ "NNPC Directory". www.nnpcgroup.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ "Nigeria's state oil company signs $2.5 billion pre-payment deal for gas projects with NLNG". Reuters. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ "Nigeria : accord entre le gouvernement et la compagnie pétrolière nationale pour le financement des routes". Financial Afrik (in French). 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ Clowes, William (19 July 2022). "Nigeria's State-Owned Energy Firm Starts Commercial Operations". Bloomberg Energy. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ Ramalan, Ibrahim (27 August 2024). "NNPC Ltd begins supply of liquefied gas to Japan, China". Daily Nigerian. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "Tinubu sacks Kyari, reconstitutes NNPC board, picks Bashir Ojulari as new GCEO". 2 April 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Tinubu Swears In New NNPCL Board And Management". Verily News. 22 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "NNPC Empowers 531 NYSC Members with ₦531,000 and Starter Packs". Verily News. 23 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "NNPC Profile, Law, Structure & NNPC Unremitted Funds". Aziza Nigeria. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "Executive Management". nnpcgroup.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Reforming the oil industry". The Economist. The Economist Newspaper Limited. 29 September 2007.
- ^ a b ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES (22 November 2010). "TAPE Agenda: NNPC Bags Transparency Award". Federal Ministry of Finance.
- ^ "Africa's biggest oil producer | Doing Business In". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ NEITI (23 November 2019). "NNPC, NEITI Set Up Joint Committee to Strengthen Transparency". Department of Justice.
- ^ NNPC (2019). "Mele Kyari's Transformative Efforts at NNPC". Department of Justice.
- ^ "Discover Top Companies on LinkedIn. See open jobs, employees, locations and more!". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
