NNPC's Transformation - Get Set, Ready ...

Byline: Oscarline Onwuemenyi

With virtually weeks to passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly, the country's oil and gas behemoth, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has instituted measures to commence transformation towards becoming a purely profit-oriented company as against the government oil and gas agency it had been since its establishment.

In fact, the current Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, was appointed a year ago strictly to oversee this revolutionary transformation that would see the oil and gas behemoth transmute into one of the most efficiently run and dynamic oil companies in the world. …