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PTDF has re-strategized to ensure oil industry employment for its trainees-Dr. Oluleye
Houston Tx – The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)is saddled with the responsibility of equipping Nigerians with the requisite technical skills needed to function in the oil and gas industry.
At a time when the Nigerian oil and gas industry is witnessing a sizeable amount of IOC divestments the role of this Agency has never been more essential. The Executive Secretary Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Dr Oluwole Oluleye took out time to speak with select Journalists on the sidelines of the just concluded Offshore Technology Conference in Houston Texas, USA where he addressed these and other relevant issues. Dr. Oluleye also spoke on the commitment of PTDF to the implementation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda and achievements recorded in partnering other government agencies in securing gainful employment for PTDF trainees after being trained. Biztellers Joseph BAMIDELE who covered the OTC in Houston was on hand for this special interview.
Congratulations on your recent appointment. Can you give us an idea of the direction of your administration as the Executive Secretary?
Okay, thank you very much. I assumed office about a year ago and I appraised the situation on the ground with the spirit of patriotism. First of all, what we have done is to ensure that scholarships are done during the school year and not to be given intermittently at our whims and caprices. So, it is properly timed now from October to September of the next year. We’ve been involved in a lot of training, and what I did observed is that several of the people that we have trained are not in the industry. Part of the mission of the management of PTDF now is to ensure that a trained personnel that we trained abroad, when they come back, we get them to do some practical training with PETAN, after the training, we want to ensure that they are fixed in the industry and in view of that, the honourable minister of petroleum resources is emphasising indigenous participation in the oil and gas, so rather than having a few multinationals, we have a lot of Nigerian companies that would be able to employ these Nigerians coming in, and that reduces the unemployment situation significantly. So, we want to be judged by the number of people we place in the industry as the years go by.
In your presentation, you alluded to critical areas where you think there is a dearth in supply of manpower expertise and so on, do you see this as a possible challenge affecting the employment of Nigerians by indigenous companies especially with the recent divestments of IOC assets? And as a follow up to that question can you shed more light on your partnership with the NCDMB such that the people you have trained would be adequately engaged?
Again, we have identified the critical areas. There is a construction of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) going on and there is a critical dearth of welders to undertake this project. As a result of identifying the skills gap, what we did about a month ago was to pick up some of our former trainees and do further advance training for them. We took about 550 of them to undertake this training in the next couple of months for them to be qualified. Once this process goes out, we are taking another 550 trainees. The gap that has been identified in terms of employment is about 8,000. Hence we would be working over a period of time to fill this gap. The 8,000 would be on welding specifically.
We also need people in electrical, mechanical, rig operations and all that. I mentioned some of the people we have trained in these various areas but they are not enough. Having identified that, we are geared towards improving and increasing the number of people that would be trained in that area. Again, the indigenous companies coming up due to the policy of the federal government, we have to train these people so that Nigerian companies would have enough technical people to work with them rather than bringing expatriates from abroad. We want our engineers to be as qualified as any other engineers abroad and Nigerians can be far better than them.
Talking about collaboration with Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), our mandate is specifically for skills development, building capacity, capabilities and competencies. We have stayed within this our mandate over a long period of time. We are working for the same government and we went to Yenagoa and initiated these co-operations so that if there are apparent overlaps, we would be able to sort out the gray areas and in fact, there shouldn’t really be overlaps. So, there is absolutely no problem for us working together. I said that those that we trained, the NCDMB would assist us, since we do not have direct access to the International Oil Companies ( IOC’s). Those we trained as part of the collaboration would be sent to NCDMB Executive Secretary to place them in the right jobs in the industry. That’s part of co-operation with NCDMB.
What kind of synergy do you have with the universities churning out young graduates annually, especially as most of these graduates are actually not fit for oil sector employment?
We have about 16 Universities with faculties like Petroleum, Chemical Engineering and anything related to oil and gas as well as the environment. What we have done is to improve their facilities, equip them with laboratory equipments, bring in simulators where necessary and all that. So, what we are trying to do is that those who graduate from the universities are actually well-trained. After finishing that, the other aspect is to send them to industries. And I mentioned that we have a 12-month programme for some of these whereby we pay them some little stipends, they do some theoretical work and go on to do practical work in the industry, thereafter they will now be placed in the industry.
You also talked about the new oil and gas University…
No. They have polytechnics and the polytechnics are for middle level manpower development. As for Bonny, Mr. President has directed that the polytechnic in Bonny must commence activities in this school year, which is by September. So, we are working assiduously to meet that presidential directive. For the Polytechnic at Ekowe the physical structures are already completed, what we are trying to do is to provide the equipment to get them function and we are in the process of doing that also. We expect in the next couple of months that Mr. President would be gracious to get it commissioned.
Can we have the idea of how much was spent as investment in capacity building?
I cannot provide that answer because I may be giving wrong information but it’s quite enormous. Considering the size of Nigeria, having skilled manpower is very necessary for the country. The manpower would not only exist for the country. Oil is being discovered in several African countries, so we can export these people to these various countries, and whether you like it or not they will send some money back home.
Sir, with this, what’s your projection of when Nigeria can be sufficient in terms of manpower based on ongoing activities?
Training is a continuous thing because people come in and also leave the industry, so it would go on. If you talk about domestication of training, then we can give about ten to twelve years life span for it. As we train more people, as we equip more Universities and Polytechnics, then we are really bringing into the country what exists outside and that can further improve as time goes on. Once we bring knowledgeable people who are highly skilled then they will train others. So, we have plans for domiciling a lot of the training in-country.
There has been significant rise in pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft, acts that require technical skills. After the internship, what’s the hope for someone who has been trained abroad to secure gainful employment in the industry so that we can reduce the above mentioned acts?
Again, this requires co-operation. I talked about what we do with the NDCMB, we do our parts of the training for them to have all the technical skills required to work effectively in the industry. NDCMB has direct relationship with the industry as a matter of fact and part of their duties is also to ensure that the IOC’s and other companies employ Nigerians. This is because for you to get some of the contracts you need to employ skilled Nigerians. Our interest is to provide NDCMB with a pool of highly skilled Nigerians for them to fit into the industry.
Some Nigerians go outside to train themselves, they express fears what the situation will look like when they return, do you have any plan of assisting any of these graduates who have gone out on their own?
As a student coming back, you must know the area you are interested in. You must know the several organizations that could assist, do they know about NDCMB or PTDF? If you approach some of these organisations, they would be able to help or give the right direction. Again, there will be job opportunities as a follow up to the federal government’s policy on indigenous participation in exploration and production. PETAN talked about increasing membership from 8 members to 60, that’s very significant, and I also believe that more Nigerians would set up more companies. That link that did not exist between the oil industry and the Nigerian economy in terms of employment of Nigerians would come to fruition.
We have local scholarships scheme for undergraduates, for Masters and for Doctoral degrees in the Nigerian Universities. Again, these are the Universities that we are upgrading. That is where we are concentrating on, the more money we have, the more we are going to expand that. But for now, we are just concentrating on about 16 Universities to bring them up to international standard within the respective oil and gas department.
Away from just upgrade of facilities, are there plans to collaborate with these Universities such that essential technical courses can be inculcated in their curriculum from their fresh year in school in order for them to be fully familiar with the essentials of the sector they been groomed for?
We have local scholarships schemes for undergraduates, for Masters and for Doctoral degrees in the Nigerian Universities. Again, these are the Universities that we are upgrading. That is where we are concentrating our efforts and money on, the more money we have the more we are going to expand that. But for now, we are just concentrating on about 16 Universities to bring them up to international standard within the respective oil and gas departments.
The Presidential Amnesty Office has been training ex-militants both within and outside the Country. Some of these trainees are now Pilots, while others have acquired various technical skills is there any collaboration with the Amnesty office to help absorb these ones?
Yes, the PTDF was part of the committee that was set up by the president on amnesty. We are also training a group of about twenty pilots in South Africa as part of the amnesty scheme, and we intend providing those jobs. We don’t want to train people and not provide them jobs. I know where to go and the contacts are already being made within the forces, public and private sectors. Let me just put it like this, we will provide them jobs and a lot of them would graduate, at least 90 per cent of them would graduate by July this year. So, we are already making preparation to get them fixed up.
We are doing that, may be that is not really coming to the fore. For the lecturer within the country, we have software on seismic studies distributed to a lot of these universities for the training of the students. First the lecturers are trained on it then the students. They already have learnt the necessary things to do when they get on the field.
We also have co-operation with the Newscastle University in France that also train our lecturers on modern research methods and so on not just concentrating on the students, so we are taking it in totality. So, the lecturers are not left out in anyway. They are also being upgraded.
Sir, speaking specifically at what time would you think your establishment would say we are achieving, we have achieved and we have made meaningful contributions in umbers significantly especially for the industry you represent.
Honestly to answer that question, it would be a feedback from the industry and the people we have trained. Like I said earlier, the industry is expanding and it is going to be a continuous process so we cannot at a point say this is it. So, people are coming in and people are going out but most importantly the feedback is the most important to us whether those we have trained are meeting up to expectations of the industry. The monitoring and evaluation units have been empowered to do the monitoring of all our activities as an internal feedback for us within the system. From the other companies we expect feedback also from them. As part of the training for some of the youths we have had, we trained a couple of people in Cotonou on vocational skills. What we are trying to do is not just training and throwing them out at middle level manpower. We are working on a programme with Heritage bank whereby some of these people after being interviewed, are loaned money from the bank to start some of the businesses they have been trained in, we are not just training and letting them go. We are trying to empower them with the hope that the single person we have trained will be able to take in two or more people. That way we will be reducing, in our own way, some of the unemployment problems.
What message do you have for the International community?
The message is that we would continue to do business with international partners. We also want something in return for all the activities in the past few years and maybe we gave away too much because you see the transformation programme now is emphasizing things that were not emphasized in the past. We need that assistance, we are talking and we will continue to talk with them and Nigeria is still very much open to business.
Modupe ASUDO
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has reiterated its commitment to advancing gender inclusion and sustainable capacity development in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, spotlighting a $20m Women in Oil and Gas Intervention Fund.
The Board made this known at the 3rd edition of the Diversity Sector Working Group’s Women in Oil and Gas Conference and Mentorship Programme, held on March 3, 2026, at Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos.
The conference, organised in collaboration with the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum, was themed ‘Breaking Barriers, Shaping the Future’, with a strong focus on building bridges and empowering women for a sustainable energy future.
Delivering his goodwill message, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr Felix Omatsola Ogbe, described women’s empowerment as a strategic lever for strengthening Nigeria’s energy ecosystem, particularly at a time the global industry was undergoing profound structural change.
He explained that the sector’s navigation of energy transition, rapid technological innovation and rising sustainability expectations increasingly requires broader perspectives, adaptive leadership and inclusive participation to remain competitive and resilient.
Represented by the General Manager Midstream PCAD, Ms. Lekoma Phimia, the Executive Secretary framed inclusion not as social advocacy but as sound economics, stressing that diversity consistently delivers measurable performance outcomes across industries.
“Inclusive organisations are more innovative, more resilient and more profitable. When women thrive, industries thrive. When women lead, economies grow. When women are empowered, communities prosper,” he stated.
To illustrate this point, the Executive Secretary referenced the leadership impact of Ms. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, Executive Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, describing her tenure as clear evidence of women’s capacity to drive sector-wide transformation at the highest levels.
According to him, such leadership exemplifies how competence and inclusion are helping to steer the industry through a period of accelerated change.
While acknowledging the progress recorded, Ogbe observed that systemic barriers had continued to limit the full participation of women across segments of the oil and gas value chain, stressing that addressing the constraints requires deliberate, structured and sustained interventions.
At the centre of NCDMB’s empowerment showcase, the Executive Secretary highlighted the Women in Oil and Gas Intervention Fund, a landmark $20m initiative established in partnership with the Nigerian Export-Import Bank to provide affordable financing exclusively to women-owned businesses operating within Nigeria’s oil and gas sector.
He explained that the fund offers single-digit interest rate loans with repayment tenors of up to three years, targeted at eligible companies with approved industry contracts. According to him, the initiative is designed to accelerate local capacity and enable women entrepreneurs to transition from peripheral participation to ownership and leadership across the oil and gas value chain.
Ogbe further disclosed that a complementary intervention, implemented in partnership with the Bank of Industry, extends structured business training and additional access to capital to women-owned enterprises. He noted that many beneficiaries have expanded from small service providers into competitive vendors now supporting major oil and gas operators nationwide, particularly in logistics and marine services, safety equipment supply and environmental management — segments where female entrepreneurs have historically faced limited access to financing.
Beyond financing, the Executive Secretary highlighted NCDMB-supported skills development programmes executed in collaboration with institutions such as the Petroleum Training Institute and accredited industrial training centres in Rivers and Bayelsa states. He cited the training of women in welding and fabrication, noting that many graduates are employed in fabrication yards and contribute directly to major oil and gas projects.
“These women are earning dignified livelihoods, breaking stereotypes and inspiring a new generation,” Ogbe said, emphasising that collaboration remains critical to scaling impact, citing partnerships with financial institutions, development partners, training institutions and industry stakeholders.
He commended the NCCF Diversity Sector Working Group for sustaining advocacy and dialogue on inclusion. “We must move beyond inclusion towards leadership — more women in technical leadership roles, executive positions and industry boards,” he added.
In her remarks, the Chairman of NCCF Diversity Sector Working Group, Dr Alero Onosode, described the conference as a celebration of progress, leadership and possibility, noting that NCDMB’s sponsorship reflects its strong institutional commitment to inclusion and shared prosperity. She observed that convening the conference in March — International Women’s Day month — was symbolic, coming at a time of renewed activity and reform across Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
“Alongside this momentum, we are seeing the rise of women into visible and influential leadership roles — regulators, CEOs, directors, engineers and policymakers shaping strategy and transforming spaces that were once dominated by a single voice,” Onosode said.
She explained that the conference theme challenged stakeholders to move from representation to impact, urging deliberate collaboration across sectors, generations and perspectives.
“Building bridges means women and men working together, turning diversity into strength and collaboration into results,” she stated, calling on industry leaders to prioritise mentorship, sponsorship and intentional partnerships.
The conference concluded with a renewed call for inclusive capacity development, with NCDMB reaffirming its commitment to empowering women, strengthening Nigerian content and ensuring that Nigeria’s energy future is sustainable, inclusive and economically transformative.
Modupe ASUDO
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said that its 10-year strategic roadmap was designed to strengthen Nigeria’s industrial base by retaining 70 per cent of oil and gas industry spending within the country by 2027, while creating employment opportunities for about 300,000 Nigerians across the oil and gas value chain and its linkage sectors.
This position was made known during a high-level panel session at the maiden West Africa Industrialisation, Manufacturing and Trade Summit and Exhibition, held in Lagos under the theme “Accelerating West Africa’s Sustainable Industrial Revolution for Economic Prosperity”.
The session focused on maximising human capital as a catalyst for competitive and resilient industries in the region.
Speaking on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, the General Manager, Human Capacity Development, Mr. Esueme Kikile, congratulated the organisers for convening the summit, noting that “the theme strongly aligns with the Board’s long-standing mandate in the oil and gas sector.”
He explained that NCDMB’s core responsibility is to build the capacity of Nigerians and Nigerian companies to participate actively in the oil and gas industry, stressing that industrialisation, manufacturing and trade were critical drivers of sustainable economic growth.
To achieve this, Kikile said the Board launched a 10-year strategic roadmap in 2017 aimed at developing in-country fabrication and integration capacity, while strengthening local manufacturing capabilities.
According to him, the oil and gas industry alone is capital-intensive and limited in direct employment, but its linkage sectors provide vast opportunities to absorb Nigeria’s growing youth population.
“Our plan is to ensure that at least 70 per cent of Nigerian oil and gas spend is domiciled in-country by 2027. That is why fabrication, manufacturing and industrialisation are so critical. Through this approach, we project employment opportunities for about 300,000 Nigerians, not just in oil and gas, but across its supporting industries,” he said.
Moderating the panel, the Head of Operations at Jobberman Nigeria, Ms Samantha Ifezulike, set the tone by raising concerns about whether West Africa has sufficient human capital to sustain rapid industrial scale-up, both at entry and senior levels. She challenged the panelists to examine barriers to talent deployment and the role of collaboration between industry and government.
In response, Kikile described West Africa’s population of over 450 million people, nearly 60 per cent of whom are young, “as a significant demographic advantage that remains largely untapped due to structural constraints.”
He identified policy fragmentation across borders as a major barrier, and noted that limited mobility of skills within the sub-region restricted optimal use of available talent.
He also pointed to the disconnect between academia and industry, observing that many education systems still prepared graduates for civil service roles rather than practical, industry-driven careers.
He called for deeper collaboration between universities and industry to align curricula with real-world needs, including technology-driven and hands-on training.
On technical and vocational education, Kikile stressed the need to revive and modernise training institutions to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, recalling how vocational pipelines once fed directly into industrial and oil and gas hubs.
He further advocated policies that enabled innovation and entrepreneurship, allowing students to translate viable ideas into businesses, supported by streamlined regulatory frameworks.
Highlighting the NCDMB’s role in talent development, Kikile said human capacity development was central to the Board’s mandate, especially in correcting decades of overreliance on expatriate labour in the oil and gas industry. He noted that the steady growth of indigenous companies over the years reflected the impact of Nigeria’s local content policy.
He said the NCDMB was implementing an Oil and Gas Field Readiness Programme designed to train 10,000 young Nigerians in critical skill areas identified through industry studies, addressing significant skill gaps in the sector. The programme combines classroom learning with compulsory six-month on-the-job training to ensure participants are truly industry-ready.
“We rolled out this programme recently and are already working with operating companies. The goal is not just certification, but field-ready talent. Properly trained Nigerians should be able to compete locally and globally as industry leaders,” he said.
Kikile concluded by emphasising three priorities: strengthening regional capacity and absorptive ability, ensuring industry actively co-creates curricula with government, and enforcing compliance with well-designed policies and regulations.
Wrapping up the session, Ifezulike underscored the need for stronger alliances, effective policy development and practical implementation, calling for broader stakeholder participation to translate discussions into measurable outcomes.
The industry leadership panel reinforced the growing recognition that unlocking West Africa’s human capital is essential to achieving sustainable industrialisation, trade expansion and long-term socio-economic transformation across the region.
Modupe ASUDO
A world-class Gravimetric Flow Metering Calibration Laboratory, the first in Africa, was on Tuesday commissioned at the operational base of Engineering Automation Technology Limited (EATL) at Eket, Akwa Ibom State, with all oil and gas industry regulatory agencies and leading operators in attendance.
The facility, which is engineered to accommodate diverse flow regimes and fluid properties, guarantees accurate and reliable measurement of product transmission through industry pipelines. It incorporates what industry experts describe as “temperature and pressure conditioning, traceable reference standards, and automated data capture,” and would solve problems of flow meter factorisation and recertification.
In a keynote address at the commissioning ceremony, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, described the facility as a strategic breakthrough in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, noting that “For decades, critical calibration and metering services were largely executed outside our shores, resulting in capital flight, increased project timelines, and limited knowledge transfer.”
He said the Gravimetric Multifaceted Flow Metering Laboratory is firmly aligned with the objectives of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act, 2010, on local asset ownership, capacity building, and value retention. Itsstrategic importance, he noted, extends to revenue assurance and regulatory compliance, cost optimisation for industry operators, technology transfer and skills development, and industrialisation of the Niger Delta.
According to Engr. Ogbe, accurate calibration ensures transparency in hydrocarbon accounting and thus strengthens confidence across operators and regulators. Operators, too, would benefit from in-country calibration and metering servicesin terms of reduced logistics costs and turnaround time, while Nigerian engineers, technicians, and metering specialists now have a world-class training ground.
The Executive Secretary said Engineering Automation Technology Limited is among carefully selected corporate entities under NCDMB’s Project 100 Companies Initiative – a strategic programme designed to nurture high-potential indigenous companies into globally competitive champions. The strategy of the Board, he explained, has evolved beyond monitoring to enabling, which involves provision of access to finance, capacity development, infrastructure, co-investments and research and innovation support.
Represented by the Acting Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr. Silas Ajimijaye, the NCDMB boss acknowledged the leadership role of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) in ensuring that regulatory frameworks continue to support technological advancement while maintaining global standards.
He charged EATL to maintain international quality standards, pursue accreditation and global certifications, invest continuously in research and human capital, and explore regional and continental markets. “Let this facility become a West African hub for flow calibration excellence,” he exhorted.
In her own address, the Commission Chief Executive (CCE) of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Mrs. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, expressed profound joy at the completion and commissioning of the Calibration and Metering Laboratory, which she declared would be Nigeria’s “national standard.”
“Flow labs in the country’s oil industry will bring their Master Meters here for calibration,” she assured, noting that the NUPRC gave its “very best to support EATL” and would continue to do so.
Represented by the Commission’s Deputy Director, Development, Engr. Manuel Ibifuroko, the CCE said the NUPRC is a business enabler, adding, “We want to be very stringent, but we also have to enable business.” She pointed out that the Commission was determined “to co-create solutions and to ensure costs in the industry are reduced.”
In a welcome address, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Automation Technology Limited, Dr. Emmanuel Okon, thanked all the organisations – regulators, industry operators and others who facilitated the transition from “aspiration to operational capability.”
He said EATL was “a vision conceived in 2020 shortly after the inauguration of the second batch of NCDMB’s Project 100 by the then Executive Secretary, a support we are still enjoying from the current Executive Secretary of the NCDMB.”
He pointed out that “NUPRC, NCDMB and NUIMS [National Upstream Investment Management Services, an arm of the NNPCL] form the foundational pillars of this facility,” while inviting the regulatory agencies and all industry stakeholders to engage with the laboratory, “scrutinize its data, and adopt it as a shared benchmark.”
He also acknowledged the exceptional support and invaluable partnership of Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited throughout the commissioning process, particularly “for providing the Meter Under Test, without which the milestone would not have been achieved.”
The Chief Upstream Investment Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, represented by the Deputy Manager, Production Sharing Contracts (PSC), Engr. Paul Duke, commended Engineering Automation Technology Limited for its “vision, dedication and technical excellence demonstrated in conceptualizing and delivering a world-class system.”
He noted that with the facility now in place, Nigeria strengthens its capacity for accurate measurement, improved hydrocarbon accounting, and enhanced regulatory compliance, which he described as “critical pillars for transparency and value optimization across the upstream and midstream value chains.”
Engr. Duke expressed appreciation for the collaboration among stakeholders, notably, regulators, operators, service providers, and technical teams, whose collective efforts have brought the initiative to fruition. He said the facility “aligns fully with NNPC Ltd.’s mandate to drive accountability, efficiency, and sustainability in Nigeria’s hydrocarbon operations.”
In related comments, Project Director in the Group Chief Executive Officer’s Office, NNPCL, Mr. Adokiye Charles, said the gathering was not just to activate the facility. According to him, “We are gathered here today to commission accountability; we are gathered here today to commission integrity… and to commission trust.” He expressed great delight at the landmark development.
For his part, the immediate past Executive Commissioner, Development and Production, NUPRC, Engr. Amadasu Enorense, said the commissioning marked a defining milestone in Nigeria’s industrial journey. According to him, “To have the first Flow Metering Calibration Laboratory in Africa is indeed a major milestone.”
In a detailed explanation of the benefits the facility would bring to Nigeria, he pointed out that, “By establishing this in-country calibration laboratory, we are declaring that precision will no longer be outsourced; competence will no longer be imported, and value will no longer be exported unnecessarily.”
He revealed that hitherto, calibration services of such technical complexity required sending equipment – and capital – overseas, resulting in “foreign exchange outflows, project delays, and lost opportunities for our engineers and technicians to develop world-class expertise.” “Today,” he remarked, “We reverse that trend.”
He urged industry operators to support the facility, utilize it, and partner the company to strengthen it. To Nigeria’s young engineers, his message was, “This Laboratory represents opportunity; master the science, uphold integrity and innovate endlessly.” According to him, “The future of our industry will be defined not just by [oil and gas] reserves in the ground but also by knowledge.”
From a major partner in the project, Emerson Automation, were words of assurance of continued support and collaboration. According to the company’s Area Director, West Africa and Angola, Engr. Chukwuma Ossaiga, “If we create value we can impact the next generation.” He urged oil and gas industry players to patronise the facility.
From a representative of Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, Mr. Enobong Ekanem, was a firm assurance of full patronage of the facility. The NNPCL and other operators all affirmed their confidence in the facility and assured the Management of their preparedness to continue to do business with the company
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