…to engage constructively with PENGASSAN, NUPENG
Chibisi Ohakah
Group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the current scoping activity going on at the Port Harcourt Refinery is part of the new management’s determination to tackle one of the key challenges facing the corporation with the aim of boosting local refining capacity to end fuel importation.
At a meeting yesterday at the NNPC Towers Abuja with the group executive committee members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), he stated that the Corporation under his leadership was ready to confront challenges facing the oil and gas sector in Nigeria with new innovative ideas, noting that the priority of his management was to boost the corporation’s revenue base.
“There is no magic around it. There is no way you can increase your revenue until you produce efficiently in a very cost-efficient manner so that the income will cancel your losses. It is important to note that you cannot run efficiently until global standards are met, best practices are respected and the employees see this company as theirs” the GMD said.
He said as part of efforts to place the Corporation on the path of solid growth, the NNPC will constructively engage the two oil workers’ unions to facilitate industrial harmony. He expressed confidence in the competence of the Corporation’s workforce to exploit the enormous potentials available to change the fortune of the national oil company.
Mele Kyari said the engagement was important to enable management and the unions to x-ray issues with a view to finding solutions to challenges facing the oil and gas industry. In his presentation, the PENGASSAN group chairman, Comrade Matthew Duru, said he had no doubt in the GMD’s ability to deliver on his mandate of taking the corporation to greater heights.
On his part, the NUPENG chairman, Comrade David Edache, pledged the support of the union to all efforts by management to reposition the corporation.
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