Board Identifies Key Skill Areas To Improve Oil & Gas Industry

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), connected Wednesday successful Cape Town, South Africa, identified cardinal accomplishment areas connected which it would absorption capacity-building efforts to make optimal occupation opportunities successful the Nigerian lipid and state industry.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe disclosed this successful his keynote code astatine the ongoing Africa Energy Week (AEW), wherever helium shared Nigeria’s occurrence communicative successful section contented development.

The accomplishment areas highlighted for peculiar absorption see underwater welding, subsea engineering, geosciences, task management, deepwater operations (drilling, accumulation engineers), instrumentation and controls. Others are digitalisation, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), and chopper pilots, with a transportation exemplary based connected a schoolroom and hands-on approach.
Delivering the code entitled “From Policy to Prosperity: Scaling Local Content for Africa’s Energy Future,” the enforcement caput said nary argumentation succeeds without people, and that challenges specified arsenic infrastructure gaps and financing limitations “are not reasons to dilatory down” but “reasons to deepen collaboration betwixt government, operators, work companies and big communities” to co-create solutions.

He pointed retired that successful the aforementioned challenges and expected solutions are a shared accidental for African countries to “harmonize section contented policies, make determination proviso chains, and leverage continental institutions similar the emerging African Energy Bank.”

He further charged African countries to guarantee that the skills of citizens, the creativity of entrepreneurs and spot of their institutions specify the aboriginal of African energy.

The enforcement secretary, who was represented by the director, Corporate Services of the NCDMB, Dr. Adbdulmalik Halilu, noted that the section contented strategy developed by the Africa Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO) for subordinate countries and the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement argumentation of the African Union are “clear pathways towards fostering trade-based multilateral practice wrong the continent.”

He emphasized that scaling section contented requires quality superior improvement and deployment, infrastructure development, exertion and innovation, cross-border collaboration and partnerships (common standards, tariff and demand), successful summation to argumentation harmonization.

On Nigeria’s section contented journey, with in-country worth summation present astatine 57 per cent, up from 5 per cent successful 2010, erstwhile the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act, 2010, the NCDMB brag said the overarching nonsubjective was to presumption Nigeria arsenic the destination of prime for concern successful exploration and accumulation (E&P) but astir importantly to make jobs for citizens and caller industries supporting E&P worth chain, portion ensuring sustainable operations for aboriginal generations.

Local contented implementation, according to him, was anchored connected six wide pillars, namely, regulatory framework, spread analysis, capableness building, incentives and backing probe and improvement (R&D), and entree to market, and driven by respective argumentation interventions.

The argumentation interventions see Equipment Component Manufacturing Initiative, which requires companies to get Nigerian Content Equipment Certificate to suffice for proviso of equipment; marine vas categorization scheme, which requires companies to supply impervious of indigenous ownership of marine vessels to suffice for vas contracts; project-based training, which requires task promoters to perpetrate a percent of task outgo to industry-relevant training.

On accomplishments nether the NOGICD Act, Engr. Ogbe declared: “Nigeria present hosts a world-class fabrication and integration gait for fabrication of accumulation platforms and integration of Floating Production Offloading and Storage (FPSO) vessels, precocious voltage cables and fibre optics for LNG train.” Also, that accumulation platforms are present produced from Nigerian cablegram manufacturers, portion plan engineering capableness exists for onshore, offshore, LNG, [and] state gathering facilities.”

He disclosed that operators similar Renaissance Africa Energy Limited, Seplat, and Oando are taking implicit assets from planetary lipid companies (IOCs), nether a divestment programme, and would go cardinal contributors to Nigeria’s people to execute 3 cardinal barrels per time accumulation by 2030.

He noted that caller Executive Orders by the Administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that introduced taxation incentives tied to time-bound upstream concern and outgo enactment and besides intended to accelerate declaration processing cycles for lipid and state projects, from 36 months to six months, person birthed large projects specified arsenic UBETA Gas Development Project and Bonga Nort...