A Nigerian petroleum engineer, Saidu Aliyu Mohamed, currently the chief operating officer (COO) of the Gas and Power Directorate of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will deliver the 36th edition of the Gas Exporting Countries (GECF)’s series of lectures in Doha tomorrow afternoon.
Mohamed’s lecture will be on the following topic: ‘Natural Gas – Catalyst for Africa’s Economic Development and Integration.’
Mohamed is an expert in the field of natural gas and an authority in the energy sector in his home country and beyond. The Gas and Power Directorate at NNPC was created as part of Nigeria’s ambition to become a major player in the gas industry globally and to create a solid framework for the expansion of the gas infrastructure.
The NNPC is Nigeria’s state petroleum corporation, but its areas of responsibility cover the entire spectrum of oil industry operations: regulation, exploration and production, gas development, refining, distribution, petrochemicals, engineering, and commercial investments.
A chemical engineer by trade, Mohamed’s experience covers both upstream and downstream, from technical to the top levels of management, domestically in Nigeria and abroad, e.g. as general manager of N-GAS Bermuda.
Nigeria was one of the founding members of the Doha-based Gas Exporting Countries Forum, now an organisation of some 19 member countries, which includes Qatar.
Saidu Aliyu Mohamed
