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Indonesia, an emerging economy in South East Asia, has indicated interest to purchase more crude oil from the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said.
The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Harry Purwanto, who stated this in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, explained that his country’s President, Joko Widodo, had instructed the national oil company, Pertamina, to direct its attention to Nigeria in its quest to meet the nation’s energy needs.
The call by the ambassador signifies the prospects of soaring Nigeria’s market share in Asia’s emerging economies, including China and India, having lost grounds in crude oil sales to the United State of America due to advances in shale oil exploration in recent years, the NNPC said in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja on Wednesday.
