The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is set to resume its crude oil search in the Chad basin as soon as it gets clearance from security agencies in the country. This comes after crude oil production hit 2.323 million barrels per day.

“We will go back there as soon as we receive security clearance. There seems to be some prospects there because Niger Republic drilled over 600 wells and now they are producing while we have only drilled 23,” said the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Maikanti Baru.

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