VISION

OUR VISION

To organize, protect, promote and defend the socio-economic and political interest of the oil and gas workers in Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE

Our objectives as contained in the Union’s Constitution are as follows:

  1. To secure the complete unionization of all workers in both formal and informal sectors whether temporarily or permanently employed in the Petroleum, Natural Gas, Petrochemical and allied industries.
  2. To regulate the relationship between members and employers, between a member and another as well as to settle disputes arising thereof.
  3. To negotiate and maintain just and equitable general conditions of service for its members.
  4. To encourage the establishment and maintenance of high efficiency in the Oil and Natural Gas Industry through dynamic participatory roles of members.
  5. To advance the education and training of members.
  6. To provide members with benefits and other assistance as provided for in the constitution.
  7. To encourage the participation of members in decision making in the undertaking; both at Industrial and National Levels.
  8. To protect and advance the socio-economic and cultural interest of the community; and such other objectives as are lawful and are not inconsistent with the spirit and practice of trade unionism.
  9. To promote and encourage International fraternal relations with bodies having the interest of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers.
  10. To establish and carry on or participate (financially and otherwise) in the business of the printing or publishing of a general Newspaper or of any other undertaking, industrial or otherwise, in the interest of or with the main purpose of furthering the interest of the Union or trade unionism generally.
  11. To advocate good governance with international best policies and practices that will sustain the Nigeria’s oil and gas sector workers in Nigeria.

 

MEMBERSHIP

NUPENG membership is open to all interested junior workers in the oil well and natural gas well operations in the industry including prospecting, drilling, crude oil and natural extraction of oil, biofuel, synthetic fuel and natural gas pipelines, refining, petrochemical and allied industries processing, distribution/haulaging and marketing/sales of natural gas and petroleum products including logistics, support services, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Independent Marketer’s Branch, Petrol Station Workers, Surface Tank Kerosene Dealers/Peddlers, Oil and Gas Suppliers, Engine Lubricants Dealers, Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers, Jetty and Depot Oil and Gas Workers in the Informal Sector, regardless of sex, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or ethnic origin.