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Modular Refineries Promoting Economic Inclusion and Local Content Growth a History of Talent Development and Innovation Q3 2018 NCDMB stakeholder magazine Modular Refineries Promoting economic inclusion and Local Content growth A history of talent development and innovation. Schlumberger has a long-standing track record of recruiting, training, and developing talent in Nigeria. Committed to helping develop leadership, capacity, and technology in academia, Schlumberger has donated an E&P software platform and provides complementary training sessions on Petrel Fundamentals to several participating Nigerian universities at our Lagos Learning Center. We encourage students to strive for technological excellence through the Schlumberger Technology Engagement Program. Launched at the University of Benin, this initiative develops software-building competencies among undergraduates and stirs their drive to solve E&P challenges. For over 10 years, the Schlumberger Foundation’s Faculty for the Future program has supported more than 90 Nigerian women in pursuing postgraduate studies in STEM fields to become role models who in turn encourage more young women to pursue STEM studies. Schlumberger and its 100,000 employees worldwide are dedicated to making a sustainable difference in the communities in which we live and work, with a focus on education, the environment, and wellness. Find out more at slb.com © 2018 Schlumberger. 18-OF-410010 18-OF-410010 Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board Ad_Update 5.indd 1 6/4/18 3:41 PM Modular Refineries SummitEngr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote All hands on deck he journey into the Board’s 10- companies to add more value to our the industry and enhance in-country value year Strategic Roadmap is gaining hydrocarbon resources in-country. No addition. momentum. All hands must be on doubt, the listing of upstream companies, T Another important collaboration is with deck to meet the target. This implies that refineries, petrochemical industries, operators, service companies, ministries, fertiliser companies and allied firms in the organised labour. Labour has a crucial departments, agencies, and just about LPG/CNG value chain on the Exchange will role to play towards the success of Nigeria every stakeholder in the public and spur cross-sectorial linkage and economic Content in the Oil and Gas Industry. private sectors (who has a role to play) buoyancy. Thus, it was delightful to host the joint needs to be on board. national executives of PENGASSAN and We also engaged the Nigerian Petroleum NUPENG at our Head Office in Yenagoa Last quarter, the Board was quite active Development Company (NPDC) and last quarter. The engagement presented in animating and fostering collaborations National Engineering & Technical a perfect ambience to intimate the union and synergies critical to the realisation Company Limited (NETCO), subsidiaries executives with the Board’s mandate, of our 10-year rolling plan. We engaged of the NNPC. The essence of the vision, accomplishments and areas of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), engagement was to promote synergy, collaboration. The interaction was frank seizing the auspicious moment of tolling entrench Nigerian Content practices and and friendly; the outcome was mutually the closing gong in August, to advocate compliance among the companies. We beneficial. The union leaders gained more a shift in the listing of companies on believe that the collaboration of the NNPC insights and pledged to collaborate with the Exchange. We advocated listings and its subsidiaries will re-energise the the Board to implement the 10 strategic 6 by upstream and midstream oil and gas drive for local content compliance across Q3, 2018 Q3, 2018 Summit Modular Refineries The civil society organisations (CSOs) The scope and reach of our and advocacy groups are also important SMART FACT collaboration is expanding and stakeholders. Their role is critical to Nigerian Content implementation and we will continue to champion monitoring. That is why we maintain an this centripetal movement. We active and robust engagement with CSOs in the extractive industry. Last quarter, are convinced that the benefits we seized the occasion of the 58 Annual of collaboration and synergy Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association to canvass and enlist the support and far outweigh defending narrow partnership of our learned friends. The territorial mandates.Since 2018 Bar Conference presented a veritable platform for us to galvanise the Bar to get Nigerian content requirements more involved in local content advocacy in the Oil and Gas industry is in Nigeria. We expect the partnership to not just a legal duty but an result in more compliance through legal support in simplifying requirements and economic imperative, all hands processes. must be on deck to make it We also activated our partnership with the succeed. Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technology of objectives for the good of all Nigerians. Nigerian Universities (CODET). The goal Clearly, partnership with PENGASSAN and is to properly focus research work in our NUPENG is critical for effective compliance engineering faculties and to commercialise monitoring. outstanding engineering projects completed annually by undergraduates Next was key stakeholders in the and postgraduates. media who we engaged in Lagos and Yenagoa, respectively. The theme of the Similarly, we collaborated with AOS engagement was the Nigerian Content Orwell and the Lagos State Electricity Intervention (NCI) Fund. We used the Board for the training of 50 young forums to highlight the reason for the Nigerians on Smart Electrical Engineering. US$200 million fund, our preference for This is a specialised training targeted at Bank of Industry as the Fund Manager, engineers to bridge the gap between loan facilities and eligibility, application theory and hands-on experience. The process, beneficiaries and challenges. six-month training is designed to equip The engagement demonstrates our the participants with solid foundations in pledge to openness and transparency electrical and electronics, with both theory in the management of the Fund. Hence, and practical competency for installations, we deemed it fit and proper that the testing, maintaining, repairing, analysing media should have accurate information and trouble shooting electrical circuits, about the Fund, the loan processes and equipment and systems. The training is disbursement so that they are empowered certified by Siemens. The trainees were to disseminate the right information and selected from the Board’s NOGICJQS play their role as watchdog by monitoring portal. This partnership helps to fill critical the application of the fund. skills gap in the industry, which is a major pillar in our 10-year strategic roadmap. We extended our partnership to the anti- graft agencies - the Economic and Financial The scope and reach of our collaboration Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Special is expanding and we will continue to Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP), champion this centripetal movement. the agency responsible for recovery of We are convinced that the benefits of public assets. Our engagement with these collaboration and synergy far outweigh agencies underscores our commitment to defending narrow territorial mandates. accountability and probity. We came away Since Nigerian content requirements with strong assurances from both agencies in the Oil and Gas industry is not just a to partner the Board to investigate legal duty but an economic imperative, reported cases of severe infractions and all hands must be on deck to make it impropriety, particularly with regard to succeed. Indeed, all stakeholders must remittances of covered companies, to pull together towards actualising the the Nigerian Content Development Fund, Board’s 10-year Strategic Plan. soon after the ongoing third party forensic Source: Strategy and Policy Development Division audit. 7 Q3, 2018 Q3, 2018 Q3 2018 Inside • Editorial 9 • Trends 10 • Photospeak 26 • HSE 31 • Books 33 • FAQs 36 • Movies/Music 38 • Policy 41 COVER: Modular refineries hold huge potentials for meeting some of the 16 nation’s most difficult socio-economic challenges. CUISINE: Blogger Ify Mogekwu, a social media sensation, shows her culinary skills with a special take on basmati 24 fried rice. Milestone: Dr Mayowa Afe, President of the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria, details the critical role training 28 holds in deepening Nigerian Content. Travelogue: Port Harcourt is more than oil and gas. The city has 34 interesting tourism attractions Pacesetters: The Board’s NOGICJQS continues to serve as a pipeline of indigenous skills for the Oil and Gas 37 industry. Cover page: Model of Waltersmith Modular Refinery 8 Q3, 2018 Q3, 2018 Modular Refineries Editorial management Editorial Publisher Simbi Kesiye Wabote The exciting Editorial Advisory (Chairman) marathon continues G.O Ginah Bamidele Abayomi arathon in Olympics has Jeff Tuatongha its roots in the story of Uduak Obot This edition brings the Esueme Kikile MPheidippides, the legendary story of modular refinery. runner. Herodotus, the Greek historian, told the story of how Pheidippides ran The policy, the debate, the Editor-in-chief from Marathon to Athens to announce the licenses, the challenges Naboth Onyesoh victory of his people against the Persians +234 803 7055 780 and the breakthrough. It [email protected] at the Battle of Marathon, about 26 miles. Like Pheidippides, the Local Content tells everything you need Digest is the herald of Nigerian Content to know about the notion
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