“With an estimated reserve of 42 billion barrels of Bitumen and the second largest deposit in the world, Nigeria has no business importing Bitumen, we should be a major net exporter to the rest of the world and we have no choice but to make this a reality”
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, with those words, charged 18 winners of the first round of the Bitumen blocks bidding process to roll up their sleeves and work hard to develop Nigeria’s Bitumen deposits.