Nigeria’s president , Muhammadu Buhari ,today, November 22, flagged off the first oil drilling site in Northern Nigeria, Kolmani Integrated Development Project (KIPRO) on the boundary of Bauchi and Gombe States.
He performed the ground-breaking ceremony of Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 809 and 810 at Kolmani field site , two years after oil was discovered in commercial volume in the region.
Oil was discovered in commercial volume in the region after NNPC launched a search in some Northern States in 2016.
Kolmani fields hold over a billion crude oil reserve, which could significantly raise Nigeria’s oil reserve.