NCDMB assures on developing local capacity for oil & gas industry
Port Harcourt -- The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB has affirmed its commitment to developing the capacity and capabilities of Nigerians in the oil and gas sector.
The assurance came as the Board kicked off the completion of the Centre For Skills Development And Training in Port Harcourt, to increase the competence and capability of Nigerians to meet the low-to-middle level human resources needs of the oil and gas industry.
The centre, conceived by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, has a six-storey tower block, library, heavy and light industrial workshops for the training of Nigerians in oil and gas skills.
The project, which began since 2011, was stalled in 2014 due to lack of funding and would now be completed by Anoh Gas Processing Company Limited, AGCL, in partnership with NCDMB and PTDF.
Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote, said the facility would become a Centre of Excellence for human capcity development in the oil and gas sector.
Wabote commended the management of AGPC for taking over the completion of the facility and said the Board has deployed one of its intervention tools known as Capacity Development Initiative, CDI, projects to midwife the completion of the centre.
"Our CDI projects are utilised in collaboration with operators and service providers in the oil and gas industry to address identified gaps in local capacities and seize opportunities to grow local capabilities.
"Anoh Gas Processing Company Ltd is our CDI partner of choice on this push to finish the skill centre in readiness for students’ intake.
"Getting this project to completion and its utilisation will be a thing of pride to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is very keen to finish off abandoned government projects," he said.