Strategies for seamless energy transition to be unfolded at NIES 2022

The CEO roundtable of the upcoming Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES 2022) will unfold strategies for seamless energy transition to ensure energy security without putting Nigeria’s economy and its hydrocarbon resources at risk.

NIES 2022 is scheduled to hold in Abuja from Feb. 27 until March 3.M

Managing Director, Brevity Anderson, event producers of NIES2022, Mr James Shindi made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

Shindi noted that with the significant and accelerating global energy transition and a COVID-19 that impacted the industry’s foundations, the session would unfold broad strategies to revive the industry fortune and chart a pathway forward.

“In line with the energy transition global agenda, strategies outlined at the CEO Roundtable will bring significant structural change in energy systems in Nigeria driven by a recognition that the target is zero carbon emission,” Shindi added.

He quoted the UN publications on energy transition, saying “an energy revolution based on renewables and energy efficiency was urgently needed not just to accelerate economic progress and development, but to slash emissions that were rapidly warming our planet”.

According to him, the session will begin with a keynote address by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva.

Thereafter, the former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, will be joined on the panel by a team of top industry CEOs which include Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd.

Others include Mr Osagie Okunbor, Chairman Shell Companies in Nigeria/MD Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC); Mr Ricky Kennedy, Chairman/MD Chevron Nigeria Limited and Mr Michael Sangster, Managing Director/CEO, Total Energies Nigeria, among others.

NIES, formerly known as the Nigerian International Petroleum Summit (NIPS), is the official oil and gas meeting of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Over the years, NIES has witnessed the highest level of attendance by top decision makers, industry leaders and all stakeholders from both the public and private sectors.

It is a federal government of Nigeria’s official petroleum industry event with the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and all its parastatal agencies.