dr. joe myers from an lpc. ps the secretary of oil and gas from the community. and the good ladies from nta. and of course the assistant. i don't know what you would like me to talk about. i suppose we will talk about energy generally and maybe petroleum in particular. but maybe i should tell you why we are here in washington. we can specifically to meet up with the world bank. as you know, we in nigeria have taken a very important exercise in trying to reform our oil and gas industry, which in our view is long overdue. nigeria is to restructure the industry and put it at an even keel and make it more consistent with national practices. and one of the major ingredients of this exercise is to create a more robust national oil company with nnpc into a company which will operate with purely commercial undertaking the distinct that will explain which is kind of confusing, involving regulatory as well as policy in addition to the responsible for commercial operation of national oil and gas company. we, as you know, nigeria is really well endowed. we are number one in