{"id":30755,"date":"2020-09-10T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30755"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:52:59","slug":"nnpc-confirms-huge-oil-discovery-in-benue-trough-eyes-chad-basin-anambra-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30755","title":{"rendered":"NNPC confirms huge oil discovery in Benue trough, eyes Chad Basin, Anambra Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mele-Kolo-Kyari.jpg\" alt=\"NNPC says JV partners oil assets sold to incompetent operators\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Wednesday night announced vast oil find in the Benue Trough, a geological structure spanning about 1,000 kilometres northeast from the Bight of Benin to Lake Chad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/developing-story-doubts-over-fgs-claim-of-full-deregulation-as-nnpc-boss-admits-pef-still-active\/\">Mele Kyari<\/a>, the corporation\u2019s chief confirmed the discovery while answering questions during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, saying hopes were high that oil would be struck soon in the Chad Basin and the Anambra Platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of fact, we have found significant oil in the Benue trough,\u201d Mr Kyari said of oil exploration in the north, adding that \u201cthere are potentials for finding oil in other basins of the country, in the Chad Basin, in the Anambra platform. 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