Local companies now bid for crude oil term contracts – NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, yesterday, committed to growing local content in the oil and gas industry from the current 40 per cent to 70 per cent by 2027 as part of strategies to sustain economic development in country.
Local content: NCDMB, welding institute to tour France, South Africa
As part of the mandate of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to develop local content capacity in welding and fabrication in the Nigerian oil and gas industry, the Board in conjunction with the Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW) will be undertaking a visit to the Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) and the Institut National De Plongee Professionnelle (INPP) an underwater welding training institute in Marseille, France this week.
Shell, Agip to fabricate 50% topsides in Nigeria – NCDMB
Two International Oil Companies (IOCs) – Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) – have concluded plans to fabricate and integrate over 50 percent of the topsides of their projects’ floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels in Nigeria.
NCDMB lauds Chevron, others over Nigerian Content Devt Act
Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has commended Chevron Nigeria Limited, Hyundai Heavy Industries, HHI, and Dorman Long Engineering Limited, DLE, for complying with the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act.
NCDMB was not playing ethnic politics m- group
Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC, Monday, said that the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, was not playing ethnic politics.
Total denies shutting Ofon-2 project
Total E&P Nigeria Ltd, the operator of the NNPC/Total Joint Venture, has denied recent media reports claiming it had shut down its Ofon-2 project.
Chevron trains Nigerian graduates on deepwater technology
Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, said it is sponsoring qualified young graduates to a training course on Remotely Operated Vehicle, ROV, overseas, as part of its efforts to assist Nigerians acquire necessary manpower in the deep water sector of the oil and gas industry.
