UDEME AKPAN FROM VANGUARD
Advocates of Energy transition have been told to give Nigeria and other African nations adequate time to use natural gas as their transition fuel to a cleaner future.
He also called on Nigeria and other African countries to act fast, adding that they already have commercial reserves of natural gas.
Many global institutions and other stakeholders had made repeated calls on oil and gas-producing nations to abandon fossil fuel, due mainly to its negative environmental consequences.
But in a session that had, ‘Building the Energy for Tomorrow’, at the just-concluded Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja, Dr. Ainojie Alex Irune, Chief Operating Officer, Oando Energy Resources & Executive Director, Oando PLC, stressed that African nations should be given time to transit using gas as its transition fuel.
Dr. Irune said: “For the first time in the history of the world, we are going to see energy growth and demand outstrip average economic growth across the world, in a time where the energy mix is still being contended; contended because the primarily developed world has a view of what this mix should be, and Africa has a different perspective.
“Against the backdrop of our youth population, poverty index, and intra-African collaboration…
