Nigeria\u2019s national oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has become an\u00a0EITI supporting company, joining a group of over 65 extractives companies, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), commodity traders, financial institutions and industry partners who commit to observing the\u00a0EITI\u2019s supporting company expectations.<\/p>\n
EITI Board Chair, Rt Hon. Helen Clark, welcomed the company\u2019s commitment to the EITI: \u201cNNPC plays a vital role in Nigeria\u2019s economy. Joining the EITI as a supporting company is a welcome step in the NNPC\u2019s journey toward achieving greater transparency and to help ensure that Nigeria\u2019s citizens benefit from their natural resource wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zainab Ahmed, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning and former EITI Board member, also stressed the importance of ensuring that natural resource wealth contributes to sustainable development, saying that: \u201cIncreased transparency of Nigeria\u2019s national oil company revenues is contributing to improvements in our country\u2019s domestic resource mobilisation efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Established in 1977, NNPC has grown to become the largest asset holder across Nigeria\u2019s oil and gas industry value chain. Traditionally an oil and gas entity, it is transitioning towards becoming an integrated energy company with an interest in power generation and transmission.<\/p>\n
The state-owned company has recently taken measures to become more transparent. In June 2020, it\u00a0published audited accounts for 20 of its subsidiaries. NNPC also publishes monthly financial and operations report on its website, in national dailies and online media as part of efforts to be accountable. It is working with Nigeria EITI (NEITI) on an action plan to routinely disclose information and it currently publishes some of the data required by the 2019 EITI Standard on its\u00a0website.<\/p>\n
These disclosures demonstrate NNPC\u2019s commitment to its journey to become a more transparent national oil company. Adherence to the\u00a0EITI supporting company expectations\u00a0will give further impetus to NNPC\u2019s corporate vision of greater transparency and accountability. Three areas in which there is scope for advancing transparency are revenues and payments to government, contracts governing petroleum exploration and production and consolidated group-level financial statements.<\/p>\n
Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director at NNPC, affirmed his company\u2019s commitment to the EITI: \u201cBecoming an EITI supporting company aligns with NNPC\u2019s corporate vision and principles of transparency, accountability and performance excellence. Our partnership with NEITI and EITI strengthens our commitment towards commodity trading transparency, contract transparency and systematic disclosure of revenues and payments. We are on a journey towards greater transparency and look forward to deepening our collaboration with the EITI to further this work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nToday EITI International has announced acceptance of NNPC as a partner company. This translates to requirement for greater transparency and accountability from the Corporation. Our commitment aligns with the persuations of our Government to be accountable to the the polulace.<\/p>\n