30 Graduates Receive Eni/NNPCL JV Post Graduate Scholarship

Eni’s subsidiary, Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE), connected behalf of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and NAE PSC, has awarded scholarships to 30 Nigerian graduates for postgraduate studies successful Nigerian and overseas Universities nether its 2025/2026 Scholarship Awards Scheme.

Winners were selected among implicit 1,500 applicants, based connected their fantabulous world lasting and their performances astatine the Computer Based Testing (CBT) precocious conducted.

Under the scheme, 10 beneficiaries volition undertake postgraduate studies successful assorted Universities successful antithetic parts of the world. The remaining awardees volition prosecute their postgraduate studies successful Nigerian universities successful disciplines specified arsenic Engineering, Geosciences, Petroleum and Environmental Technology, Energy Economics, Renewable Energy and Energy Transition.

At the ceremonial held to grant the beneficiaries successful Abuja, the vice president and managing manager of NAE, Fabrizio Bolondi congratulated the awardees, stating that the assistance grant volition connection them the accidental to prosecute their dreams and execute their vocation objectives. “The grant ceremonial highlights our continuous committedness to the aboriginal of education, innovation, and capableness gathering successful Nigeria” helium stated.

He advised the beneficiaries to utilise the accidental to survey and summation invaluable skills for the payment of the country, particularly wrong the vigor industry.

The main upstream concern serviceman of NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services (NUIMS), represented by the manager of External Relations, Edith Bunmi-Lawson, and the lawman manager, PSC Asset A3 Paul Duke, were besides contiguous astatine the ceremony.

The postgraduate assistance strategy was instituted by NNPC-NAE PSC partners successful 2007 arsenic portion of the company’s quality superior improvement initiatives to beforehand cognition acquisition and span the skills spread successful specialized fields applicable to heavy offshore Oil & Gas operations successful Nigeria.

To date, 350 graduates person benefitted from the Postgraduate Scholarship Schemes, instituted by the institution to lend to the grooming of section professionals, providing the cognition and skills required wrong the industry.

Eni, done NAE, has implemented different sustainability initiatives successful Nigeria successful areas of health, education, entree to h2o and infrastructure provisions, arsenic good arsenic circumstantial initiatives for stakeholder empowerment successful section communities.

Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE) was incorporated successful 1996 to negociate the company’s heavy offshore exploration and accumulation assets. NAE is the archetypal lipid and state institution successful Nigeria to nutrient lipid from the country’s heavy offshore. NAE has interests successful 6 heavy offshore blocks successful Nigeria, either arsenic an Operator oregon arsenic a Co-Venturer.

Eni operates successful Nigeria done Agip Energy and Natural Resources (AENR), holding a 5 per cent participating involvement successful the Renaissance Joint Venture, and via Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE), with a 12.5 per cent involvement successful OML 135 and 118 (Bonga field) and a 10.4 per cent equity information successful Nigerian LNG.