Sunday 9 December 2012

PIB will fail without strong regulation

Austin Avuru,MD/CEO of SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company has said that  the oil industry needs “a strong, independent regulator” for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to work. He made the case at the 18th Nigerian Economic Summit, held in Abuja where he presented a paper entitled, “The PIB and the Future of Nigeria’s Oil Industry.”
He noted, however, that controversy has dogged the reform process in the oil and gas sector because of a misalignment of priorities and reduction of the whole PIB process to “a debate about fiscal provisions. He that the PIB is “the result of an elaborate institutional reform process for the oil & gas sector, initiated in 2000”.
Avuru cited examples from successful reform efforts in the telecoms, power, aviation and maritime industries where he pointed out that reforms have worked largely due to strong regulators like “the NCC for telecoms and NERC for power as well as a focus on private sector as source of new investments.”

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