CEO Engr. Bassey Rex Speaks at Roundtable 2 on Leveraging Natural Gas Towards Transformative Growth of Africa’s Refining and Petrochemical Market
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited participated in the 2nd Annual EMOGAS’ International Natural Gas-Based Industry Conference and Exhibition (EINGICE 2025), held on 30–31 October 2025 at PTDF Towers Conference Hall, Abuja. Convened under the theme “Guaranteeing Africa’s Exit from Energy Poverty Through Natural Gas Project Financing and Development with a Focus on Nigeria: Strategies and Actionable Steps,” the summit convened ministers, regulators, financiers, engineers, and senior industry executives to advance Nigeria’s gas industrialisation agenda.
Africenergy’s participation was not peripheral. The firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Engr. Bassey Rex, served as a confirmed speaker at Roundtable 2, addressing one of the conference’s most commercially significant sub-themes: the deployment of natural gas as both a product and an industrial feedstock in service of Africa’s refining and petrochemical sector. The engagement placed Africenergy at the technical and strategic heart of the summit’s programme.
“Nigeria is not short of gas. It is short of the infrastructure and financing frameworks to turn that gas into jobs, products, and industrial capacity. That is precisely the gap Africenergy is built to address.”
— Engr. Bassey Rex, Chief Executive Officer, Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited
At Roundtable 2, Engr. Rex contributed expert perspectives on the strategic and commercial pathways for deploying Nigeria’s vast natural gas endowment as a primary feedstock for domestic refining and petrochemical manufacturing. His intervention addressed the financing structures, project development models, and policy environments required to shift Nigeria’s gas story from extraction and export to value addition and industrial growth.
The sub-theme — Leveraging Natural Gases as Products and Feedstocks Towards Transformative Growth of Africa’s Refining and Petrochemical Market — is a subject in which Africenergy holds direct operational and advisory interests. With Nigeria hosting the largest proven gas reserves on the continent, and with the Dangote Refinery and a new generation of midstream infrastructure reshaping the economics of domestic processing, the imperative for structured gas-to-industry value chains has never been more urgent.
Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited operates at the nexus of energy investment, project development, and institutional advisory across Africa’s hydrocarbons and power sectors. The firm’s engagement in Nigeria’s gas industrialisation agenda spans investment facilitation, capacity development, regulatory interface, and the structuring of commercially viable natural gas projects aligned with Nigeria’s domestic supply obligations and industrial policy objectives.
EINGICE, as the leading private-sector convening platform for Nigeria’s natural gas industry, provides Africenergy with a critical forum for deepening relationships with project financiers, engineering firms, gas producers, and the regulators — including the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), and the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) — who shape the environment in which the firm operates.
The firm’s participation in EINGICE 2025 builds on a consistent record of high-level engagement across Nigeria’s energy calendar, including the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES), Africa Energy Week, and allied pan-continental forums. Each engagement reinforces Africenergy’s positioning as a firm that does not merely observe Africa’s energy conversation — it shapes it.
“The petrochemical and refining opportunity in Africa is generational. EINGICE is where the industry thinks seriously about how to capture it. Being part of that conversation — and contributing to it — is central to what Africenergy stands for.”
— Engr. Bassey Rex, Chief Executive Officer, Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited
About Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited Africenergy & Infrastructure Limited is a pan-African energy investment and advisory firm with interests spanning upstream hydrocarbons, natural gas development, power infrastructure, and the clean energy transition. The firm operates at the intersection of policy, capital, and industry across Africa’s energy value chain. About EINGICE: The EMOGAS’ International Natural Gas-Based Industry Conference and Exhibition (EINGICE) is Nigeria’s premier private-sector convening platform for the natural gas industry, focused on financing, project development, and the industrialisation of Africa’s gas resources.
