Oil & Gas
THE Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme (NOGAPS) at Emeyal 1 Community occupying 24 hectares of land in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State will be completed in the last quarter of 2023
Kelly Oduade, chief engineer of the consulting firm handling the construction of the NOGAPS, revealed the completion date to the members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, GOGOP, in Yenegoa, Bayelsa,
Realnews reports that the NOGAPS is the initiative being implemented by the administration of Simbi Wabote, executive secretary-led management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to drive the promotion of manufacturing in the oil and gas industry and its linkage sectors in Nigeria.
The scheme is being built across all the nine Niger Delta States. The one in Odukpani in Cross River State is completed. However, Oduade, told the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), who are on media tour of NOGAPS facilities in the South-South region of the country that at the Emeyal 1 scheme, majority of key facilities have been delivered while others will be set before the end of the year.
According to him, the massive industrial hub is coming with 24/7 uninterrupted power supply, Ashpalt-paved internal road network, water treatment plant, effluent water treatment plant, administrative building block, mini-park Estate of 3 Blocks of Flats, capacity building (training centre) Block, drainage system, security gatehouse, hostel block and fire station amongst others.
Corroborating the consultant’s presentations, the GOCOP Media Tour Guide and General Manager of Corporate Communications at the NCDMB, Ginah O. Ginah noted that apart from the listed infrastructures coming with the park, there are provisions and land spaces for willing investors to develop customized facilities that will add value to their activities at the park.
According to him, the park is willing to allocate plots for developments like filling stations, manufacturing shop floor/warehouses, oil and gas processing, manufacturing shops and others with different number of plot sizes as may be demanded by investors.
The NOGaPS Emeyal 1 scheme is situated along Otuoke-Emeyal 1 Road in Ogbia, Bayelsa State. It is accessible from Imiringi, Opolo and newly dualized (SUKUK bond funded) Yenegwe-Kolo to Otuoke to Bayelsa Palm Road.
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