The
presidency has appointed Dr Maikanti Baru as Group Managing Director of Nigeria
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Until his appointment, Dr Maikanti Baru
was the Group Executive Director, Exploration & Production of the
corporation.
Dr M. K. Baru attended
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in Kaduna State of Nigeria; where he obtained
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with a first class honors. He also holds a
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical engineering.
Before his Recent
appointment Dr. Baru had worked in various capacities in both the Upstream and
Downstream Sectors of NNPC. These includes Group General Manager of Greenfield
Refinery Projects, Managing Director of Hyson, Executive Director of Nigerian
Gas Company (NGC), General Manager – Gas Division of NAPIMS, Manager –
Operations, Procurement Management Services and Manager – Engineering for
National Engineering and Technical Company Limited
(NETCO).Dr-Maikanti-Baru-GED-Exploration-Production
During his initial stint
with NAPIMS which spanned from July 1993 to July 1999, Dr. Baruexecuted several
Gas projects which are utilizing billions of standard cubic feet of gas per
day.
Several other ongoing
projects were also conceptualized under his care. He planned the projects that
would ensure flare-out by 2008 and made huge savings while overseeing the Joint
Venture Gas Projects.
He was also the NNPC’s
Chief Technical Negotiator on the West African Gas Pipeline project from July
1999 to April 2004.
Dr. Baru has been the
Chairman of NNPC Anti – Corruption Committee since September 2004 till date;
and has relentlessly sensitized staff on obligations and laws that govern
corruption and corrupt practices.
Dr. Baru is a fellow of the
Nigerian Society of Engineers(FNSE) and a recipient of the Presidential Merit
Award of theNigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. He is married with
children.
The Former GGM, NAPIMS, Dr.
M. K. Baru informed the media executives that the Nigerian Content Division is
now domiciled in the Exploration and Production Directorate of NNPC just like
NAPIMS.
The change in structure he
informed was aimed at reducing the turn around time in contract processing. He
stated the efforts of NAPIMS in realizing the Federal Government’s aspiration
of increased reserves. He further explained that with the various projects such
as Usan, Akpo, Bonga Northwest, Ofon 2 that were on stream, the PSC oil which
currently stands at 650,000bopd is expected to increase to 1.2mbopd by the year
2011.
The Agbami field started
production in July 2008 and is currently on a daily production of 150,000bopd
while the Usanand Bonga South west will commence in 2012 and 2016 respectively.
He further disclosed that NAPIMS has successfully bridged the contracting cycle
time for bids to 6 months and aspires to further reduce it to between 3 – 4
months against the hitherto 18 – 24 months.
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