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Nigeria @62: We’re proud of our contributions to Nigeria’s devt – Chevron
Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, has said that it is proud of its partnership and contributions to the socio-economic development of the country.
The company disclosed this in a goodwill message by the Manager, Communications, Victor Chimaobi Anyaegbudike, to felicitate with Nigerians as the country marked its 62nd independence anniversary on Saturday.
According to the statement, Chevron has learnt through decades of operating in Nigeria that business success in providing affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy was directly tied to the progress and prosperity of the people.
The statement read: “It is for this reason that we have continued to demonstrate our commitment to building mutually beneficial partnerships and supporting the Federal Government’s Nigerian Content Development (NCD) policy aimed at building indigenous capacity in the nation’s oil and gas industry.
“Chevron companies in Nigeria are at the forefront of promoting Nigeria’s ideals of NCD. The overall objective of Chevron’s Nigerian Content (NC) Strategy is to encourage the participation of Nigerian companies in the oil and gas industry through the deliberate creation of business opportunities for Nigerian service providers and suppliers.
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“Our policy is driven by the vision to be recognized as the energy company that works best to foster competence and competitiveness among Nigerian indigenous contractors and suppliers, by adopting the participatory-partnership model.”
The company said it has implemented strategies for training, capacity building, and employment of Nigerians, as well as the provision of contracts and procurement opportunities to Nigerians on all projects in its operations.
“We consistently demonstrate our commitment to empowering community contractors, service providers, and suppliers through developing human and institutional capacity, creating local jobs, developing, and sourcing from local suppliers, employing local workforce, promoting local patronage, and reserving work scopes to benefit local community contractors.”
The statement quoted Rick Kennedy, the Chairman/Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria, and Mid-Africa Business Unit, as saying: “We have helped in building the capacities of several Nigerian businesses by providing contracts and procurement opportunities to Nigerians on all projects in our operations. Chevron is also helping to grow the Nigerian economy by contributing to the development of communities in the areas of our operation. We do all this, not just because it is required by law, but because it is the right thing to do.
“Chevron is proud to be a part of Nigeria’s socio-economic development. We will continue to help build Nigerian businesses through the harnessing of its tremendous human resources and capacity; and support for Nigerian Content policy of the Federal Government”.
Meanwhile, CNL has in the last 10 years, spent an estimated annual average of $1 billion on Nigerian suppliers and service providers. Chevron provides technical support, support for asset acquisition, and facilitates collaboration on research and development for local community contractors.
Some of its contributions to improved participation of local contractors in the Nigerian oil and gas industry include the following:
- Chevron facilitated the first assembled-in-Nigeria Subsea Horizontal Christmas Tree and the fabrication in Nigeria of Agbami production manifolds for the Agbami Phase 3 Project by FMC Technologies Limited /Aveon Offshore Nigeria Limited.
- Chevron ensured the safe, timely and successful installation of subsea equipment like flexible flowlines, umbilicals, and jumpers by Marine Platforms Limited, a Nigerian contractor –. Chevron sponsored four Nigerian engineers for subsea engineering training in France, in partnership with NCDMB and Technip Offshore Nigeria Limited
- Chevron trained six young Nigerian Engineers in subsea engineering at the FMC facility, Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT) Onne, Rivers State. In addition, five Nigerian Engineering graduates sponsored by Chevron, completed subsea training at Marine Platforms Limited in Port Harcourt.
- Chevron recently facilitated the fabrication and assembly of two complicated Single-Point Mooring (“SPM”) buoys structures weighing ~300 tons each by Fenog Nigeria Limited (“Fenog”), an indigenous independent engineering company. The SPM buoys, are critical components of the Escravos Export System Project (“EESP”) scope, required to improve reliability of current JV offshore crude oil export facilities.
- Chevron facilitated the fabrication and load out of offshore platform topsides and bridge connection for the Sonam Non-Associated Gas Well Platform (“NWP”) by Nigerdock Plc.; the fabrication and load-out of the Okan Pig Receiving Platform (PRP) topsides; bridge, fabrication of Okan PRP jacket by Globestar Company Limited, in partnership with Idmon Engineering and Construction Co. Limited; installation of 32km 24” Sonam to Okan NWP pipeline by West African Ventures Limited; and the coating of the pipes used for the Sonam Development Project and EESP by Pipe Coaters Nigeria Limited.
- The Okan GGCP Debottlenecking project completed final heavy lifts and achieved 1,000,000 Manhours with zero serious injuries or fatality in collaboration with a Nigerian company, Prime Sources Limited (PSL), and its subcontractor, Ariosh Limited
Furthermore, in pursuance of its low carbon reduction and sustainable zero waste goals, CNL partnered with Lafarge Cement PLC to conduct laboratory tests locally on the suitability of cement kiln co-processing technology for stream of stored wastes as well as to determine the health and safety risks, if any.
Based on the success of the tests, CNL awarded a short-term contract to Lafarge to manage stored secondary waste generated from CNL incinerators as additional raw material in cement kiln processing.
Also, Chevron’s accomplishments in human capital development include the training fourteen earth science graduates under the 12-month skills acquisition programme initiated by NCDMB.
It offered scholarships to Nigerian seamen for dynamic positioning training at PEM Offshore Limited, a marine training facility with a 5-year contract worth $1 million and collaborated with the NCDMB to assist over six hundred community graduates to register in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Joint Qualification System.
The company has also awarded a contract to a local consulting firm, Lonadek Nigeria Limited, to develop and pilot an industry-first capacity building initiative for drilling and completion professionals.
Keen on optimising production from the nation’s hydrocarbon assets to boost revenues and meet her OPEC production quota, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) and its Joint Venture partner in the Awoba Unit Field, Newcross Exploration and Production Ltd., have restarted production from the Awoba field which last contributed production to the Bonny Terminal in 2021 and was finally shut down in February 2022 due to evacuation issues and crude oil theft.
This was contained in a statement put out on the state oil company’s X handle on Tuesday from Abuja, under the signature of its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi O. Soneye.
He asserted that since the restart of the Awoba field by NNPC Ltd and it partners on April 13, 2024; production from the field has averaged 8,000 barrels per day and is expected to plateau at 12,000 per day at full ramp up within 30 days.
Awoba is also expected to significantly boost gas supply to the power sector and other gas-based industries, Soneye added.
Biztellers reports that the Awoba Unit which straddles OMLs 18 and 24 is located in the mangrove swamp south of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Both OML 18 and OML 24 assets are under the management of the NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services (NUIMS).
Recall that the NNPC Ltd. has been recording a string of production successes from the JV portfolio which have significantly lifted overall national production. Besides the recent start of production at the Madu Field by the NNPC Ltd/First E&P JV, the company has achieved the restart of production at OMLs 29 and OML 18 in late 2023 which have steadily contributed an average of 60,000bpd to the nation’s production output since their restart.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd., Mallam Mele Kyari, ascribed the achievement to the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s success in providing enabling operating environment for businesses to thrive.
He expressed appreciation to all stakeholders (staff, operators, host communities, government security agencies, and private security contractors) who played a pivotal role in achieving the feat.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and its Joint Venture partner in OML 85, First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (First E&P), have commenced oil production from the asset also known as Madu Field.
Biztellers reports that production from the field which is located in shallow waters offshore Bayelsa State and operated by First E&P is expected to be at an average of 20,000 barrels per day.
The achievement is a testament to the commitment of the President Bola Tinubu administration to optimise production from the nation’s oil and gas assets through the provision of enabling environment for existing and prospective investors.
According to the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, the commencement of oil production at the Madu Field is a significant milestone that will contribute to the larger goal of meeting the production required to drive revenue growth and boost the nation’s economy.
He commended stakeholders for their support, and opined that the addition of 20,000 barrels per day by an indigenous oil player signals the commitment of stakeholders to achieving economic development for Nigeria.
Recall that the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the development of the Madu Field and a sister field, Anyala, was taken by the NNPC Ltd/First E&P JV in 2018.
Production from the Madu Field will be processed at the JV’s Abigail-Joseph Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Unit, which has a crude oil storage capacity of up to 800,000bbls.
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has denounced stories being peddled around that it is recruiting.
General Manager, Policy, Government & Public Affairs, CNL, E. O. Brikinn, denounced the stories in a statement made available to Biztellers, in which he cautioned that the company will not respond to enquiries about “fraudulent advertisements and job offers”.
It reads, “Chevron Nigeria Limited (“CNL”), operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (“NNPCL”) and CNL Joint Venture, is aware of the circulation of false recruitment information in some media and online channels in the name of CNL and Chevron Corporation, purportedly advertising job positions in CNL.
“Additionally, fraudulent job offers have reportedly been sent through emails, text messages and phone calls by individuals purporting to be staff or representatives of CNL and Chevron Corporation.
“Members of the public are hereby notified that CNL does not solicit job applications or initiate recruitment processes through emails, posters, handbills, text messages, social media, or phone calls.
“Job seekers are advised to always check the company’s website at: http:/www.careers.chevron.com, and the national newspapers for job advertisements from CNL.
“CNL does not and will not require applicants to make any payment towards processing any job application. Job offers requesting candidates to pay money, at any point during the recruitment process, are not from CNL. CNL advises that anyone who receives these fraudulent communications should report them to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
“CNL hereby dissociates itself from all false job adverts and offers published in any online media platform, web site, email, poster, handbill or any other medium.
“CNL will not respond to enquiries about fraudulent advertisements and job offers.”
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