With proven oil and gas reserves of 32.5 billion barrels and 187 trillion cubic feet respectively, numerous investment opportunities abound in upstream operations of the Petroleum industry as categorised below: [Upstream Opportunities - On-shore business]

• Surveying - tropical and planimetric; and sea bottom survey
• Civil Works- mud pit construction, concrete works at rig sites
• Seismic data acquisition and interpretation
• Drilling operations
• Pipelining
• Crude oil transportation and storage
• Exploration and production of oil and gas products
• Manufacturing of consumable materials in exploration such as explosives, detonators, steel casting, magnetic tapes etc.
• Search for development of local substitutes for items such asmedium press ure valves, pumps, shallow drilling equipment, drilling mud, bits fittings, drilling cement etc.