NNPCL sponsors 60 petroleum scientists to undergo training at ABU

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A total of 60 petroleum scientists drawn from 30 Nigerian universities have been nominated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to attend a five-day sequence stratigraphy workshop scheduled to hold at the Centre for Inland Basins Studies (CIBS), Ahmadu Bello University.

The training workshop is to kick start in Zaria from the 20th to the 24th of August 2023.

A statement by the Public Affairs Directorate, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and made available to Tribune Online on Monday stated that specifically, the NNPCL-sponsored short hands-on train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop is targeted at geologists, scientists, reservoir engineers, and other professionals.

According to the statement, the centre, built and commissioned by the NNPCL in March last year, is expected to share at the training workshop some reflections on the benefits of the application of sequence stratigraphic techniques (SST) for the delimitation of petroleum systems of inland sedimentary basins, with special focus on Sokoto basin.

The workshop, ‘Application of Sequence Stratigraphy to Petroleum Exploration: A Case Study of the Sokoto Basin’, has 60 participants drawn from 30 universities across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, and it is to hold at CBN Centre for Economics and Finance, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

“All the participants are academic staff mainly from Departments of Geology, Geophysics, Physics, and other related fields in their respective universities.”

It said the, “participating universities from the northeast are the University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi; Gombe State University, Gombe; Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola; and Nigerian Army University, Biu.

“Those from the southeast are the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; and Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu.

“Others are those from the south-south, which include Delta State University, Abraka; University of Calabar, Calabar; University of Benin, Benin; Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; and Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun.

“The ones from the southwest are the University of Ibadan, Ibadan; University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos; and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State.

“They also include universities from the north-central zone which are the Federal University of Technology, Minna; Nasarawa State University, Keffi; Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja; and University of Jos, Jos.

“The universities participating from the northwest are Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto; Federal University, Gusau; Federal University, Birnin Kebbi; and Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano.

“Significantly, sequence stratigraphy is a branch of stratigraphy that deals with the order, or sequence, in which depositionally related stratal successions (time-rock) units were laid.

“It has been extensively used by the academia and industry as a valuable tool in basin analysis and modeling of the several parameters that govern sedimentation, and frontier exploration of hydrocarbons in the inland basins,” the statement declared.

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