The 3rd Edition of the Nigeria Petroleum Summit, tagged NISP
2020 has been scheduled to hold from 9th to 12th, February 2020 in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari will be chief host of the event
with support from the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Marlin
Sylva, alongside the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari.
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In a letter written to industry partners in October, 2019,
the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Sylva had noted that the NIPS
2020 will be declared open by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“As Nigeria’s official petroleum and a Pan-Africa event,
NIPS 2020 is designed as a meeting place for the oil and gas industry to
introduce new technologies, share ideas that will lead to development of new
strategies.
“The event will focus on technology, knowledge,
sustainability and partnership that can enhance inflow of foreign investments
while improving success rates of indegenous business engagements.
“The event also intends to provide networking platform for
key political decision-makers, government officials and industry specialists.
It will facilitate close interaction of Nigerian political decision-makers,
government officials, industry specialists, leaders in the private sector and
oil and gas sector, resulting in cross pollination of ideas”, the Minister
stated in the letter.
On her part, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum
Resources in Nigeria, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, had told the media that like the
previous editions, the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources has the
responsibility of hosting the next edition of NIPS from 9th to 13th February
2020 on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“The summit draws as much as 3,000 top-level international
and national oil executives together every year to dig deeper into the awesome
potential of a region in order to increase the participation of anyone doing
business and investing in Nigeria and the rest of Africa’s oil and gas
upstream, midstream, downstream, power, and services industries”, she said.
For the NIPS2020, stakeholders will be addressing issues
around the theme: “Widening the Integration Circle: Technology, Knowledge,
Sustainability and Partnership” and will seize the momentum of the country’s
historic 60 years of independence, to showcase the rich culture of the most
diverse country in Africa along with new oil, gas, and energy technologies,
platforms, major contract signing and strategies for growth.
As a vested partner and global hub of leading oil and gas,
electricity and renewable business, research and development, production,
refining, and with its petrochemicals and gas products distributed around the
world, Nigeria is a perfect venue and natural location to convene an
African-focused event and global leaders intent on shaping the future of one of
the world’s most important industries of this nature.
NIPS 2020 is expected to bring thousands of the top minds in
this industry to Abuja from across the globe who will be able to attend
engaging presentations and cutting-edge technical tours to gain valuable insight
into industry trends not just for Nigeria, but also for Africa to engage the
global energy community.
The event is a well coordinated international exhibition,
which provides opportunities for companies to showcase their expertise and
market their goods and services directly to key decision makers. About 5000
participants including speakers, delegates, visitors and 200 exhibitors from
over 40 countries are expected to attend.
There will be 2 major presentations, 12 plenary sessions, 6
technical sessions and a pre- event training for local participants.
The year 2020 has been declared as the Year of Gas by Chief
Sylva, so in the course of the event there will be spotlight session on Nigeria
LNG Limited’s Train 7 Project and how local Companies can participate.
Speakers of the past editions include the Governor of Cross
River State, H.E. Professor Ben Ayade, with global heads of the industry like
H.E. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary-General of OPEC; Dr. Sun Xiansheng,
Secretary-General of the International Energy Forum and Yury Sentyurin,
Secretary-General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.