PEGASSAN forum backs modular refineries

By Patrick Ahanor

Benin City

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Producers Forum) has pledged support for the federal government proposed move to grant licences to modular refineries operators in the country.
The Forum said the government move would create more job opportunities for the citizens, declaring that “we are in alliance with anything that will open up the space.”
National Chairman of the group, Comrade Festus Osifo, stated this in an interview with journalists at the ongoing PENGASSAN Producers’ Forum retreat in Benin City, Edo state.
The retreat has as its theme “Strategic and Information Based Leadership; Panacea for Effective Trade Unionism.”
“We cannot be threatened if the federal government gives licences to private individuals to operate modular refineries because it will create more jobs in the oil and gas industries.
“PENGASSAN today has over 20,000 members and we want more members. So, if they give the license to operate the modular refineries because at the end, who are they going to employ?
“These people (employees) will either be members of PENGASSAN or NUPENG. So, for us, we are in support,” he said.
Osifo also expressed concern over the current fuel scarcity, but added that modalities had been put in place to ease it.
According to him, “there are so many factors responsible for the scarcity of fuel, but I can assure that the leadership of PENGASSAN currently led by the able president, Comrade F.O. Johnson, is on top of the issue as far as PENGASSAN is concerned.”

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