“Boss Komolafe calls for calm in Dangote“: Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has called for dialogue between Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals and the Petroleum and
Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) as well as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), urging all parties to find common ground to resolve their dispute.
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Komolafe, who spoke on the issues within the downstream and midstream petroleum sectors involving Dangote Refinery, NUPENG, and PENGASSAN, called for calm and urged the parties to resolve their differences without disrupting energy supply across the country.
Komolafe made these remarks during an interview on Arise Television on Saturday. He said, “Regardless of the fact that the issues involved are purely mid and downstream affairs, our take is that parties should refrain from what will cause disruption in energy supply in the country.
We believe that the issues involved are issues that parties can actually sit down, discuss, and reach an amicable solution for the good of the country.”
He also highlighted the significant reduction in the monetary value of oil losses, attributing the improvement to new strategies implemented by the NUPRC.
Commenting on the successes recorded in combating crude oil losses, Komolafe said the express directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to eliminate oil losses using both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches has yielded positive results.
According to the NUPRC boss, President Tinubu’s directives to security agencies and the Commission had reduced crude oil losses by about 90 percent between 2021, when the Commission was established and 2025.
