{"id":20721,"date":"2025-12-09T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-selected-as-headquarters-of-newly-established-petroleum-regulators-forum\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:59","slug":"nigeria-selected-as-headquarters-of-newly-established-petroleum-regulators-forum","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-selected-as-headquarters-of-newly-established-petroleum-regulators-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria selected as headquarters of newly-established Petroleum Regulators Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">This decision, made during AFRIPERF&#8217;s inaugural executive committee meeting with representatives from 16 countries, highlights Nigeria&#8217;s increasing regional influence in Africa&#8217;s oil and gas regulatory framework. Integrated Energy Specialist, Davis Tsikaye, says the development is a significant milestone for the continent.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Komolafe leadership in Afriferf\u00a0 is expected be a game changer \u00a0in Africa&#8217;s upstream oil and gas sector he is very instrumental in the forum \u00a0with a clear goal in attracting more investment \u00a0by standerdising regulations across state member countries. under his guidance Afriferf focuses on consistence and transferring rules and jurisdiction \u00a0the idea is simple\u00a0 a unified investor-friendly \u00a0regulating framework \u00a0and will boost confidence and unlock new capital investment,&#8221; Tsikaye said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20722,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20721","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"African petroleum regulators have chosen Nigeria as the headquarters of the newly-established\u00a0African Petroleum Regulators Forum\u00a0(AFRIPERF) and elected Gbenga Komolafe, head of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), as its chair","published_date":"2025-12-09 00:00:00","news_description":"African petroleum regulators have chosen Nigeria as the headquarters of the newly-established\u00a0African Petroleum Regulators Forum\u00a0(AFRIPERF) and elected Gbenga Komolafe, head of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), as its chair","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24660,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20721\/revisions\/24660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}