Energy

By PR The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Wednesday in Cape Town, South Africa, identified key skill areas it would focus capacity building efforts for optimal job creation opportunities in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe disclosed this in his keynote address at the on-going Africa Energy Week (AEW), as he shared Nigeria’s success story in local content development. The skill areas highlighted for special focus include underwater welding, subsea engineering, geosciences, project management, deepwater operations (drilling, production engineers), instrumentation and controls. Others are digitalization including Artificial Intelligence (AI), helicopter pilots, with a delivery model that is...

(3rd and 4th right) Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri and Dr. Obinna Ezeobi ,NCDMB General Manager of Corporate Communications By Ali Elias CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Nigeria’s presence at the 2025 African Energy Week gained momentum on Tuesday as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil) and Chairman of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Governing Council, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, visited the Board’s exhibition booth at the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC).The Minister was received by Dr. Obinna Ezeobi, General Manager of Corporate Communications at NCDMB, who briefed him on the Board’s ongoing initiatives and strategic focus areas. Other senior officials on hand included Mr. Uchendu Ossaowa An...

By PR The three Executive Orders issued by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Oil and Gas Industry in March 2024 did not erode the relevance of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act on the operations of the oil and gas industry, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said. This was one of key messages from the Local Content Masterclass and panel discussion, held on Monday at the African Energy Week, which started in Cape Town, South Africa. Discussions at the panel highlighted Nigeria’s local content’s milestones and processes, provided local lessons for other African oil and gas producing countries, clarified misconceptions, as well as positioned Nigeria’s oil and gas industry for investment. The panellists included the Dire...

By PR NLNG in collaboration with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), on Friday achieved a major milestone in the Nigerian Content development commitment, with the close-out of Train 7 Project Human Capital Development (HCD) Advanced Training Programme, at the plant complex in Finima – Bonny Island. The training ends officially on 30th September 2025 with the departure of the trainees from its plant facility in Bonny Island.The HCD programme, run under the guidance of the NCDMB, is a Federal Government Initiative to build capacity for the oil and gas industry and fulfil the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act’s requirement on human capital development. A total of 122 trainees, having completed prior HCD Basic Training Programmes, w...

By PR In line with its capacity building mandate, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) is set to begin a comprehensive digitalization training programme targeting 3,700 youths across the country.   The initiative which is under the banner of the NCDMB Digitalization Initiative (NDI) is designed to equip young Nigerians with the essential skills needed to thrive in the current and emerging waves of industrial revolution.  Giving insight into the programme, the Executive Secretary NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe observed that the oil and gas industry and its linkages sectors have adopted advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Industrial Internet of Th...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), has clarified the status of the TotalEnergies and Chappal Energies deal which first received a ministerial consent on Oct. 28, 2024. Mr Eniola Akinkuotu, Head, Media and Strategic Communications, NUPRC, in a statement on Thursday, said the clarification was imperative in view of smedia enquiries. The NUPRC had on Oct. 28, 2024 conveyed a ministerial consent for the transfer of TotalEnergies’ 10 per cent participating interest in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) joint venture. The consent excluded OMLs 23, 28 and 77 – to Telema Energies Nigeria Limited (owned by Chappal Energies). Specifically, this divestment involved TotalEnergies’ 10 per ce...

Barr. Esueme Dan Kikile Esq, General Manager, Human Capital Development, speaking on behalf of the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe (FNSE, FIPS) By Els William The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has joined Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) in celebrating the graduation of 122 young Nigerians who successfully completed the Train 7 Advanced Human Capacity Development training programme in Bonny, Rivers State. The initiative, part of the ongoing Train 7 Project, offered participants rigorous, hands-on training in plant maintenance, spanning instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, lifting and rigging, fabrication, as well as preventive and corrective maintenance. Trainees also gained rare, first-hand exposure to live LNG plant operation...

By PR The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Tuesday charged oil and gas industry stakeholders to prioritise research and development (R&D) as a pathway to the development of homegrown technology to deal with operational challenges in the sector and to retain industry spending. The strategy, according to the Executive Secretary of the Board, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, is consistent with provisions of the Board’s enabling statute, the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act, 2010, and objectives of the 10-Year Strategic Research and Development Road Map, launched by the NCDMB in 2019. In a welcome address at the NCDMB-sponsored Technology Innovation Challenge (TIC) Workshop, themed “Stimulating Industry and Economic Growth throug...

By PR The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Friday at the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Conference Centre, Warri, Delta State, concluded the latest of its capacity building programmes for local contractors and vendors from oil and gas host communities, with a declaration that empowerment of participants was a cardinal policy in fulfilment of its core mandate. At the five-day capacity building workshop themed “Empowering Local Contractors for Sustainable Growth,” participants from 40 companies operating as contractors and vendors received detailed explanation of NCDMB’s “Community Content Guideline” (CCG) and were acquainted with modalities for securing and executing contracts from oil and gas companies, among other things. The CCG is a critical work...

By Els William In a rare move underscoring its strict standards, the Nigeria Prize for Science—sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG)—has ended the 2025 competition with no winner. After reviewing 112 submissions under the theme “Innovations in ICT, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies for Development,” the Advisory Board and judges concluded that none of the finalists met the level of rigour, operability, and real-world proof required for the US$100,000 award.Rigorous Process, Disappointing Outcome Of the 112 entries submitted, 54 were deemed valid and progressed to full adjudication. From those, a shortlist of ten was drawn, then narrowed to four finalists.Despite the technical promise presented in many proposals, the judges found recurring deficiencies in three critic...