Category: Local Content
NCDMB’s support is causing us to think upgrades, additional investments
The NOGICD Act, enacted in 2010, is aimed at domiciling local oil and gas industry capacities.
2nd Niger Bridge, Elegushi and Eletu land reclamation projects: Our success story —B&Q Dredging
Its expertise and capacity built over the years and encouraged by local content laws has made it the preferred dredging company among the foreign and indigenous dredging companies in the country, as some of the national economic projects it undertakes come from referrals made by satisfied clients.
Practical Nigerian Content: Schneider Electric calls for collaboration among industry, government, and academia in R&D
He noted however, that the pandemic afforded Schneider Electric the opportunity to upskill local engineers, adding that the Nigeria office of the company recorded some of the highest training man-hours during the period of the pandemic.
NCDMB, EFCC, others to collaborate on local content enforcement
Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Simbi Wabote, explained that the Board organised the workshop to create synergy and collaboration with regulatory and enforcement agencies in the discharge of its mandate.
Local Content: Schneider Electric to reinforce capacity building for Nigerian Engineers
A global specialist in energy management and digital transformation, Schneider Electric, has stated its readiness to reinforce capacity building initiatives in Nigeria for its indigenous engineers and new intake.
$20m Bayelsa re-run elections fund allegation: Our finances are transparent, verifiable —NCDMB
We verily believe that this outright fabrication was sponsored by those angling to contest for the senatorial elections in Bayelsa West Senatorial District, who are in the habit of concocting wild allegations to distract the NCDMB and lure us into local politics.
The role of local content in building Africa’s oil, gas and renewables energy mix
Africa is at an energy cross-roads. The continent’s best-educated, most entrepreneurial and competitive generation is rising and taking on leadership positions that will propel African companies to become more competitive. After such a long time dealing with the problems of the past, Africans can now look to the future. After all, when it comes to…
NCDMB, Notore explore investment opportunities
By Oke Peter The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will support Notore Chemical Industries Plc to fully develop its industrial complex so it could offer integrated services to oil and gas companies and increase its contributions to the agricultural and infrastructural sectors. The Executive Secretary NCDMB, Engineer Simbi Kesiye Wabote visited the company…
DPR approves One-million-barrel capacity onshore terminal project in Rivers
Construction of a one-million-barrel capacity onshore terminal in Nigeria has been approved by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Chairman of Green Energy International Ltd. (GEIL), Professor Anthony Adegbulugbe revealed the reports and said that issuance of the Approval to Construct (ATC) was sequel to the department’s review of the detailed engineering design for the…
Firm sues NCDMB, ExxonMobil for local content laws violation
An indigenous oil servicing company in Akwa Ibom State, The Pioneer Divers Int’l Limited, has dragged the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to court for alleged breach of local content laws. The Punch has reported. In a suit number HEK/96/2019, filed before the Akwa Ibom State High Court in Eket, the plaintiff, Divers…