NNPC, 31 Oil Firms Donate N11bn To Fight Coronavirus

The Nigerian oil industry, under the leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) Group Managing Director, Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari, has announced a donation of $30million (N11 billion), for the fight against coronavirus.

Addressing the press in Abuja on Friday, Kyari said the intervention initiative called, ‘The Oil and Gas Industry Intervention Initiative on COVID-19’, was in alignment with the ongoing federal government’s effort to curb the pandemic.

According to him, the intervention is aimed at supporting the national healthcare delivery facilities.

The NNPC GMD further said, “It covers three key areas, viz: (a)Provision of  medical consumables. (b)Deployment of logistics and in-patient support system.  (c) Delivery of medical infrastructure.”

According to him, the three thematic support initiatives amount to $30 million (N11 billion).

Kyari said, “To address the increasing demand for medical services, we are immediately providing medical consumables covering testing kits, medical protective suits and ambulances to the highly impacted areas of the federation.

“ This will be followed in the next few days with the deployment of ventilation, beds and temporary intensive care facilities across the geopolitical zones of the federation.”

Besides the NNPC, 31 upstream oil companies are also part of the initiative.

The  31 companies are; The Shell Group of Companies in Nigeria, The ExxonMobil Group of Companies in Nigeria,The Total Group of Companies in Nigeria, The Chevron Group of Companies in Nigeria, The Eni Group of Companies in Nigeria, Addax Petroleum,  Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Limited, AMNI International Petroleum Development Company, Dansaki Petroleum Limited, Elcrest  Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Eroton Exploration and Production Limited, Energia Limited, First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company  Limited,  First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Limited, Frontier Oil Limited, Green Energy International Limited and Lekoil Nigeria Limited.

Others are; Midwestern Oil and Gas Company Limited, Newcross Exploration & Production Limited, Network Exploration and Production, Niger Delta Petroleum Resource Limited, Oando Oil Limited, Oriental Energy Resources Limited, Pillar Oil Limited, Platform Petroleum Limited, SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company PLC, Shoreline Natural Resources, Suntrust Oil Company Nigeria Limited, Vertex Energy Limited, Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited and Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Limited.