{
  "id": 3653497,
  "title": "New PENGASSAN Team to Partner NURPC to Unlock 3m Bpd",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/new-pengassan-team-to-partner-nurpc-to-unlock-3m-bpd",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-27T03:17:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/27/new-pengassan-team-to-partner-nurpc-to-unlock-3m-bpd/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The new leadership of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has pledged to collaborate with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) to boost oil production to 3 million barrels per day by 2030. A statement by the NUPRC spokesman, Eniola Akinkuotu, reported this during a visit by PENGASSAN's new President, Bosun Olabiyi-Agoro, to the commission's headquarters in Abuja. Olabiyi-Agoro said the Nigerian President has set an ambitious goal to reach the production target by 2030, and PENGASSAN is committed to fulfilling this objective. The PENGASSAN President assured that the union is ready to negotiate, but non-negotiable issues include the rights of workers to freely associate and join the union, as well as contract staffing. The NUPRC Chief Executive, Mrs. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, confirmed that the federal government has been diligently working to increase production, with recent executive orders focusing on deep offshore investments. Production has increased from 1.1 million barrels per day (mbopd) a few years ago to an estimated 1.755 mbopd in 2026. Eyesan emphasized that industrial stability is crucial to achieving higher production targets and sought PENGASSAN's support to help grow production from the current level to 3 million barrels in 2030. She also mentioned that gas production is still below 8 billion cubic feet (bcf) and aims to increase it to 12 bcf by 2030.",
  "summary": "Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The new leadership of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has promised to work closely with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}