KEY POINTS
- Top Nigerian energy leaders and global experts will headline the 2025 Gas Investment Forum in Lagos, October 7–8.
- The event will focus on attracting investments, accelerating industrialisation, and deepening gas utilisation.
- The forum is part of Nigeria’s broader “Decade of Gas” initiative and backed by key government agencies.
This October, Nigeria’s top energy officials and businesspeople will meet in Lagos for the third Gas Investment Forum (GIF). The country is working hard to turn its huge natural gas reserves into a driver of economic growth and industrialization.
The theme of the 2025 GIF is “Charting New Opportunities for Investment, Growth & Industrialisation.” It will take place at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos on October 7 and 8. The event is expected to be an important place for high-level talks between policymakers and the private sector.
The goal is to get more people to use gas at home, get infrastructure investments going, and move Nigeria’s energy transition agenda forward.
Some of the main speakers are Olubukola Arowolo Verheijen, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Energy; Ed Ubong, Coordinating Director of the Decade of Gas Secretariat; NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber; Akachukwu Nwokedi, President of the Nigeria Gas Association; and Wole Ogunsanya, Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN).
This year’s forum is important because it comes at a time when Nigeria is speeding up its “Decade of Gas” policy, which aims to make gas the country’s main transition fuel and economic backbone. As the world’s energy markets change and money for oil-based projects becomes harder to find, Nigeria is using its large gas reserves as a competitive edge for both domestic use and export.
Global voices and private capital to shape discussions
The event is not only bringing in players from the US. People from around the world, like Andrea Stegher, President of the International Gas Union (IGU), and Dr. David Oluseyi Ige, Non-Executive Director at NNPC Ltd and CEO of GasInvest Ltd, are also expected to speak. Dr. Abiodun Ogunjobi, President of the Women in Energy Network; Eyono Fatayi-Williams, CEO of Selai Gas Station Ltd; Damilola Owolabi-Osinusi; and Oga Adejo-Ogiri, Executive Secretary of the Association of Local Distributors of Gas (ALDG) are also confirmed speakers.
The variety of speakers shows that more and more people agree that Nigeria’s gas agenda can’t work without cooperation between all sectors, from upstream producers to last-mile distributors, and from government supporters to gender-inclusive advocates.
Osaze Isesele, the Event Director of the GIF, says that the forum has “evolved into a central platform for strategic dialogue around Nigeria’s gas monetisation agenda and energy-driven industrialisation efforts.” He said that the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources supports the forum and that the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) co-hosts it. This gives the forum both institutional support and regulatory credibility.
As the world talks more about cleaner fuels and long-lasting infrastructure, Nigeria’s push to make money from its gas resources is just as important for the economy as it is for the environment and the country’s place in the world.
The 2025 Gas Investment Forum could be a turning point for Nigeria’s gas wealth in the years to come. The country is trying to get private investors to put money into midstream and downstream projects, such as pipelines and gas processing and distribution hubs.
