NPDC Redeployment: We’re Repositioned To Drive Reserves, Optimize Growth, Explains COO Upstream

The recent redeployment of senior managers at the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) was aimed at repositioning the company to meet production and reserve targets.

This was revealed on Tuesday in a statement released by the Group General Manager, Public Affairs of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. Ndu Ughamadu

Quoting NNPC’s Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, Mr. Roland Ewubare, the statement said the reorganization became imperative following the urgent need of the current management to grow the NPDC into a big time Exploration and Production player in the country.

Mr. Ewubare said NPDC could only measure up to international standards if it had a team of professionals that were “fit-for-purpose” and could deliver on project timelines and budgets.

He added that the shake-up in the NPDC was a routine exercise that was still ongoing, stressing that other staff that were not suitable for the posts they were currently occupying would be redeployed for national interest.

Mr. Ewubare reiterated the importance of having a team of professionals who understood the urgency of the mission to reposition the NNPC in line with the Presidential mandate and dismissed insinuations that trailed the exercise.

“The redeployment that just took place in NPDC is a signal to all members of staff that it is no longer business as usual. We are determined, as a management, to meet the four cardinal points of Transparency, Accountability with Performance Excellence (TAPE). Therefore, the redeployment has nothing to do with ethnicity, religion, or any sectional interest. The current NNPC management reflects all the six geo-political zones,” Ewubare enthused.

The COO  stressed that the NPDC, which is the E & P arm of the Corporation,  is strategic to the achievement of the presidential target to grow the nation’s reserves and production to 40billion and 3million barrels per day by 2023, adding that the management was prepared to rejig personnel to meet the target.

“He explained further that upon assumption of office, an evaluation of personnel was carried out which indicated incompetence and compromise on the part of some staff which necessitated the shake-up, adding that they also failed to provide efficient leadership for some of the assets needed to reposition the company.

“I must put on record that the changes would continue until we get the right optimal managerial talents for the management of those critical assets, “the statement added.