Nigeria's NNPC is collaborating with Schlumberger on the deployment of technology in the search for commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Chad basin and other parts of the inland sedimentary basins.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will begin drilling in Chad Basin in early 2017, after the acquisition and processing of more than 1,900 sq. km of new 3D seismic.
Nigeria plans to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil in the northeastern Chad Basin region by October, the head of the state oil company, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, said.