NNPC to Give More Priority to Environmental Preservation

IBE KACHIKWU

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has expressed its willingness and determination to place more emphasis on the preservation of the environment while also focusing on in its business operations for sustainable profitability.

This was the disclosure by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu in a Press statement released to Independent.

According to the Press release, the position of Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, is the preservation of the environment and also the focus of sustainable profitability on its business operations.

In a keynote address delivered at the 2016 Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) week with the theme: “HSE Best Practice - A Requirement for Business Profitability and Sustainability,” at the NNPC Towers in Abuja, Dr. Baru disclosed that the NNPC would continue to execute and encourage policies and programmes that enhance health, safety and preservation of the environment in alignment with the conventions of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

“Business sustainability requires

processes in which we manage our financial, social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generation. This will ultimately save lives, ensure sustainable development while supporting economic growth and happiness for the future generation.”

The GMD noted that, the NNPC goal is to attain the highest standards of excellence to maintain and continuously improve comprehensive HSE management system which is a systematic and fully documented approach to managing health, safety and environment.

The NNPC boss reiterated that the NNPC has made Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) a core component of every aspect of its business and would help to raise awareness on safety of the environment.

In a similar vein, the Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, Mr. Isa Inuwa, while speaking at the event, stated that the HSE Week is a yearly corporate-wide activity which showcases achievements recorded in HSE with a view to creating awareness to strengthen the measures already in place, to reposition NNPC in the pursuit of transforming into a world class oil and gas company.

“The NNPC must strive to identify and minimize, if not eliminate, unsafe acts or conditions, carry out hazard surveillance, and comply with set HSE rules and regulations”, Isa Inuwa stressed.