By Ahmed Ahmed
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has partnered with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to invest in brass fertilizer and establish 10,000 tonnes per day methanol production plant at Odioama, Brass, Bayelsa State
Dr Ginah Ginah, General Manager, Corporate Communications and Zonal Coordination, NCDMB,stated this at a Nigerian content capacity building workshop for media stakeholders recently in Abuja.
He explained that NCDMB had partnered 15 firms and investors to develop critical gas projects in the oil and gas sector of the economy.
"The board partnered with NNPC Ltd. to invest in brass fertilizer and establish a 10,000 tonnes per day methanol production plant at Odioama, Brass, Bayelsa State.
"We are investing with Triansel Gas Ltd in Koko, Delta State, to establish a 5,000 MT per day LPG storage and loading terminal facility,’’ he said
Ginah said it had supported Butane Energy Ltd to establish LPG Bottling Plants and Depots in Abuja and 10 northern states, including investment with the MOB Integrated Services on 500 MT Inland LPG terminal construction in Dikko, Niger State.
He also explained that 70 per cent of its investments are on gas-based projects, especially midstream and downstream gas and covered modular refining, gas processing, gas distribution, power generation, manufacturing and others.
Ginah listed the gas-based activities to include its partnership with Rungas, to produce 1.2 million Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) composite cylinders per annum in Bayelsa and Lagos states.
He said it was also collaborating with the NEDO Gas Processing Company in Kwale, Delta State, for the establishment of 80 million standard cubic feet per day (scfpd) gas processing plant and a 300 million scfpd gas gathering hub.
“The board is also working with Duport Midstream to establish an Energy Park at Egbokor, Edo State, which include a 40 million scfpd gas processing plant, 2,500 barrels per day modular refinery and 20 megawatts power plants.
He also added that the project would include the construction of a cylinder refurbishment plant, procurement of 80,000 bottles of LPG cylinders and acquisition of distribution assets.
According to him, there is also partnership with Southfield Petroleum to establish a 200 million mscf gas processing plant at Utorogu, Delta State, to produce 123,000 MT per annum of LPG, about 10 percent of current LPG demand nationwide.
He added that the board was collaborating with Amal Technologies to set up a plant in Abuja to produce smart gas/smoke detector alarm devices.
Ginah said its partnerships and investment were backed by section 70 (h) of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act.
“As you are aware, President Muhammadu Buhari declared 2021-2030 as Nigeria’s Decade of Gas and to fully exploit the nation’s abundant gas resources to accelerate the development of the economy.
“The Federal Government’s strategy is to use gas as Nigeria’s transition fuel. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources has backed this position with bold policies such as the National Gas Expansion Programme, Gas Network Code and Flares Commercialisation programme.
“As a responsive agency, the NCDMB has also taken deliberate steps to actualise the Federal Government’s declarations in gas and other aspects of the oil and gas value chain.
“Above all, the investments by the NCDMB are helping to create employment opportunities for Nigerian youths, catalyse the local economy and achieve the Nigerian Content 10-year Strategic Roadmap,’’ he said.
Also Speaking Mr Abdulmalik Halilu, the General Manager, Research, Statistics and Development Division, NCDMB said the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act 2010 established NCDMB as the sole agency of Federal Government responsible for driving Nigerian Content in the oil and gas industry.
According to him, the oil sector is a global business that does not compromise standard, hence there is need to ensure optimal capacity and utilisation of specified schedule to achieve local content standard.
He said its 10-year R&D roadmap anchored on eight success pillar for systematic development research and innovation, thereby underscored the need to have competitive and well-structured research and development system.
Halilu said the roadmap was aimed at developing and maintaining healthy pipelines of competent researchers and translating research results into products and services that would be deployed for industry application.
He said its goal was to have an effect on inclusive, transparent, solution and demand driven R&D governance structure to drive its delivery.
He said the essence of making provision of it in the act was to ensure R&D ecosystem, which captured the needs of the industry was driven by research.
He underscored social media’s relevance in identifying professionals, sources of data, literature review, data collection, pitching, product validation, dissemination of research findings.
“There is need for research and documentation dialogue providing a networking platform for project promoters, researchers, and regulators to dialogue on imperatives of enabling R&D ecosystem to National development.
Haliu encouraged Stakeholders using various media platforms to share information on reearch breakthroughs with high prospects of commercialisation.
He listed five sponsored R& D excellence centres of the board located in five institutions to include Federal University of Technology Minna, Federal University of Technology Akure, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa, Federal University of Technology Owerri and Modibbo Adamawa University of Technology, Yola.
Our correspondent reports that the workshop has its theme “Enhancing Media Competencies to Support Nigerian Content in a Gas Economy.”
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