Aliko Dangote, the president of Dangote Group shared some insights on the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company (NNPC), through the ongoing 2023 annual Worth Assurance Evaluation Workshop (AVAR) of the Nigeria Upstream Funding Administration Providers Restricted (NUIMS).

The NNPC whose obligations is to handle Nigeria’s oil and fuel assets has been a topic of debate and debate in Nigeria for a few years because of some inefficiencies within the sector.

Africa’s richest man has been an advocate for the reformation of the sector and has shared his ideas on the NNPC. We’ve handpicked among the highly effective opinions he has shared in regards to the NNPC.

NNPC ought to look out for large investments to satisfy demand of their commodities

Aliko Dangote suggested the NNPC to welcome large investments from each native and overseas buyers when it comes to oil and fuel manufacturing in order to satisfy the rising demand for these commodities in Nigeria. In accordance with him, there are a number of off-takers ready to  purchase the merchandise from the company.

Dangote, because of his in depth expertise in managing companies throughout a number of sectors defined that each good funding supervisor would at all times actively search for funding alternatives, assess them and take shrewd funding selections in the direction of the event of their sectors.

NNPC can grow to be Africa’s Saudi Aramco with proper selections

Aliko Dangote acknowledged that the NNPC can generate income price billions of {dollars} if the precise steps and selections are put in place. Additionally, the Petroleum Trade Act (PIA) has given quick access to the transformation of the oil agency from a authorities institution to a industrial entity with no recourse to authorities funding.

Dangote believes that the company has the potential to be remodeled into Africa’s Saudi Aramco, one of many world’s largest oil corporations. He additional suggested the company to not embrace worry as they’ve all it takes to scale by way of. He talked about the hurdles his firm skilled whereas beginning out the refineries just a few years earlier than and the way far they’ve come.

He mentioned “I actually imagine that NNPCL must be our African Aramco. You will have what it takes to take you up there and I’m very blissful. There’s nothing that’s unattainable. You can also make it attainable and don’t let something scare you.”

NNPC ought to contemplate lowering price to keep away from excessive breakeven worth

Aliko Dangote suggested that the NNP should first contemplate the price element of its manufacturing. He defined that the costs in business are clearly uncontrolled as they’re decided by the market, nevertheless, price will be managed inwardly, Dangote advocated for a extra aggressive price targets strategy to keep away from lengthy payback interval because of Nigeria’s highest breakeven costs globally for extracting oil and fuel.

Dangote famous that the company ought to goal to be the bottom amongst rivals, benchmarking prices with producers in related sectors.

He mentioned “we have to strike a fragile steadiness between encouraging native participation within the oil & fuel sector and compromising effectivity and price,” he suggested.”

NNPC can drive the nation’s infrastructure as Nigeria’s highest conglomerate

Aliko Dangote pointed the NNPC in the direction of the nation’s infrastructure. He says embarking on an actual undertaking in Nigeria will be decided by the infrastructure put in place as a result of the infrastructure within the nation just isn’t meant for mega tasks.

He added that the NNPC is the very best conglomerate within the nation and so they have the potential to drive correct infrastructure within the nation to themselves in addition to different sectors forward.

The function of NUIMS in creating NNPC

Aliko Dangote mentioned the Nigeria Upstream Funding Administration Providers Restricted (NUIMS), an funding arm of NNPC has an enormous function in managing alternatives within the sector,  federal authorities’s curiosity within the oil and fuel business. In addition to managing the investments to repay its loans, generate affordable returns, and fund funding in new alternatives.

He added that they’re a associate within the Joint Enterprise (JV) property and the concessionaire within the Manufacturing Sharing Contract (PSC) preparations, positions that’s constructed across the correct administration of the federal authorities’s property.