By Esueme Dan Kikile ESQ Twelve years of strategic planning and creative deployment of regulatory powers at the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board have literally reinvented Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to a degree that national aspirations, for decades elusive, have suddenly become realisable. Those aspirations, consecrated by evidence of how Middle Eastern countries with […]
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By Eyo Nsima The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) is collaborating with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Total Energies Ltd to transform Government Technical College (GTC), Port Harcourt, Rivers State into a center of excellence for the training of craftsmen who will support activities in the oil and gas industry and the
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By Eyo Nsima Like Nigeria, the Parliament in Uganda has passed the National Local Content Bill, 2022 intended to foster promotion of local content in all but the oil, gas and petroleum sector. Among others, the bill seeks to impose local content obligations on a person using public money or utilising Uganda’s natural resources or
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By Eyo Nsima The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB and the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Limited, have concluded plans to set up a tactical team, comprising nominees from both organizations, to drive closer collaboration on projects, ensure compliance with Nigerian Content obligations and promote other strategic alliances for the good of the nation’s
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Zambia seeks assistance of Dangote in Developing Fertiliser Industry By Eyo Nsima The Zambian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Chipoka Mulenga, has sought the assistance of the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote in the development of his country’s agricultural sector. Chipoka Mulenga, who led a delegation from Zambia on tour of the 3.00 million
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By Eyo Nsima The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Friday handed over the University of Ibadan Vocational School which it constructed in line with its capacity-building mandate and the Nigerian Content 10-year strategic roadmap. Handing over the facility to the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Kayode Adebowale, the Executive Secretary of
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By Eyo Nsima Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL), Operator of the OML 30 joint venture between NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (formerly NPDC) and Shoreline Natural Resources Limited (SNRL) has announced the commencement of the OML 30 Scholarship Intake Process for indigenes of its host communities. The intake process will run from August 19
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Asharami Synergy, a Sahara Group Downstream company, has renovated and upgraded the Police Station on Murtala Muhammed Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos, to enhance security and sustainable community policing. Managed by Sahara Foundation, the corporate citizenship vehicle of energy and infrastructure conglomerate, Sahara Group, the project is one of Asharami Synergy’s corporate citizenship initiatives aimed at
By Eyo Nsima Dorman Long Engineering Limited, an indigenous company, has loaded out 2,000tonnes Conductor Supported Platform, fabricated by Dorman Long Engineering Limited, for the development of Madu oilfields in the Oil Mining Lease, OML, 85. The facility was constructed for an indigenous oil exploration and producing company, First E&P, which operates a joint venture
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By Eyo Nsima The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has commended TotalEnergies Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited for embarking on infrastructural upgrade of the Government Technical College (GTC), Rivers State. The projects include the construction of technical workshop, 200-bed hostel, and 25-blocks classroom and are in fulfillment of TotalEnergies’ commitment to the NCDMB’s
