The Gambia National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on Friday (17 Feb.) signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited  (NNPCL). 

The MoU covers collaboration between both companies on frontier exploration, and other opportunities to promote energy security, NNPCL announced via its official Twitter handle. 

“Earlier today, NNPCL and the Gambian National Petroleum Company (GNPC) signed an MoU for collaboration in the Oil & Gas sector. NNPCL’s Executive VP, of Business Services, Mr. Danladi A. Inuwa, and GNPC’s MD Baboucarr Njie signed on behalf of the two NOCs.

“Areas of interest include new frontier exploration; crude oil market expansion opportunities and transfer of technology towards a quest for more energy security for both countries and the West African sub-region,” said NNPCL in the statement.