The Group General Manager, Information Technology Division of the NNPC, Mr. Chuks Onuoha has described information technology as the business enabler that would help transform the corporation into a world class integrated oil and gas company.

Mr. Onuoha said this recently while delivering a paper on “IT infrastructure Rollout in NNPC” at the strategic management workshop organized by his division at the Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Towers.

He therefore said that information technology was critical to NNPC’s success story as the oil and gas business anywhere in the world required the latest technology. The Group General Manager stated that NNPC would provide official, reliable and cost effective IT services that exceed its customers’ expectations.


He said that one of the key roles of information technology was to make information on activities in the upstream midstream and downstream sectors readily available. He stated that the NNPC needed to get its strategic business units, mega stations and zonal offices connected so that information about each one of them could be readily accessed.

The Information Technology Managers of the National Petroleum Investment Management Service, NAPIMS, National Engineering and Technical Company, NETCO, the Integrated Data Service Limited, IDSL and Research and Development division all took turns to present their individual company’s IT overview and strategy at the two-day workshop.

Other subsidiaries of the corporation represented at the workshop were the pipelines and products marketing company, PPMC, Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC and the Nigeria Gas company, NGC.

Similarly, presentations were made on “Optimizing NNPC’s VSAT for enhanced voice and data Communication,” “Building NNPC’s Data Centre”, as well as “Unified communication in NNPC.


The workshop, the first of its kind, was to enable information technology stakeholders within the NNPC Group to rob minds and come up with a workable roadmap for the development of the corporation through IT.

By December 31, 2007, all NNPC staff at the corporate headquarters are expected to have their personal computers on their desks.