Mohammad Barkindo a former director of Nigeria's state oil company and now Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said that oil and gas were targeted at COP26 as having no place in a future energy transition adding that 'oil producers had a lot of work to do' (AC Vol 62 No 16 The oil economy breaks up)...
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Copleston tells superiors at Shell that he has a very good relationship with security chiefs in Nigeria and their networks including Umar Bature a member of the House of Representatives and Mohammed Barkindo then at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and now head of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Critical for the Chinese is who wins in a quiet struggle over control of the process between Petroleum Minister Rilwanu Lukman and NNPC Managing Director Mohammed Barkindo...
On 11 December the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation's Mohammed Barkindo sounded a conciliatory tone saying the government needs to encourage and support the refinery's investors...
Similarly Mohammed Barkindo NNPC Group Managing Director is on poor terms with the Senate since he and Lukman approved the retirement of 15 NNPC officials and the promotion of 67 others...
The Committee is set to make the accounts of the NNPC's overseas subsidaries a key part of its investigations and plans to summon Group Director Mohammed Barkindo...
Moving downstream Two companies well established in Nigeria Vitol and Arcadia (which also does business in Equatorial Guinea) have good relationships with NNPC boss Mohammed Barkindo and Petroleum Minister Rilwanu Lukman a former Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Breaking with tradition Previous NNPC managing directors have had a background in engineering but Lukman replaced Yar'Adua with Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo who is an administrator...
An exception is the London-based trader Vitol whose channels were kept open through Mohammed Barkindo a longstanding friend of Lukman's (and fellow student of Scientology) who is also Managing Director of the Hyson and Calson joint ventures between Vitol and NNPC...