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SIMBI Wabote, executive secretary, Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has said that the board is on course to achieving 70 percent Nigerian manpower content level in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. He said the board developed a 10-Year Strategic Roadmap in 2017, and commenced its implementation in January 2018, with an ambitious goal of achieving 70 percent Nigerian Content level by the year 2027.
Speaking at the ground-breaking of Rungas LPG Composite Cylinder Manufacturing Plant, in Polaku, Bayelsa State, Wabote said technical capability development was one of the pillars of the Strategic Roadmap. He said the roadmap was meant to facilitate the building of manufacturing facilities and capabilities to support in-country manufacturing and assembly of equipment and input materials required for exploration and production activities.
Wabote hinted that the roadmap provided the leverage to use the Polaku land for gas-related activities, and partner with Rungas Limited to setup LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant; Shell Nigeria Gas to set up Pressure Reduction and Metering Station, and Total Support Energy Limited for the provision of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) mother-stations. “Within a year of changing the direction towards gas, we have finalized partnerships with three investors with four hectares of the land already taken up,” he said.
– Aug. 21, 2020 @ 16:05 GMT |
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