From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
A total of 60 petroleum scientists drawn from 30 Nigerian universities have been nominated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to attend a five-day sequence stratigraphy workshop scheduled to hold at the Centre for Inland Basins Studies (CIBS), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 20th to 24th August 2023.
This was contained in a statement by the Public Affairs Directorate, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.
Specifically, the NNPCL-sponsored short hands-on train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop is targeted at geologists, scientists, reservoir engineers, and other professionals.
The Centre, built and commissioned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) in March last year, is expected to share at the training workshop some reflections on the benefits of the application of sequence stratigraphic techniques (SST) for the delimitation of petroleum systems of inland sedimentary basins, with special focus on Sokoto basin.
The workshop, “Application of Sequence Stratigraphy to Petroleum Exploration: A Case Study of the Sokoto Basin”, has 60 participants drawn from 30 universities across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, and it is to hold at the CBN Centre for Economics and Finance, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
All the participants are academic staff, mainly from the Departments of Geology, Geophysics, Physics, and other related fields in their respective universities.
The participating universities from the northeast are the University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi; Gombe State University, Gombe; Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola; and Nigerian Army University, Biu.
Those from the southeast are the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; and Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu.
Others are those from the south, south, which include Delta State University, Abraka; University of Calabar, Calabar; University of Benin, Benin; Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; and Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun.
The ones from the southwest are the University of Ibadan, Ibadan; the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos; and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
They also include universities from the north-central zone which are the Federal University of Technology, Minna; Nasarawa State University, Keffi; Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja; and University of Jos, Jos.
