Jonathan, Daukoru laud NCDMB as Eraskon launches factory in Bayelsa
Lagos -- Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Minister of State for Petroleum and current chairman of Nigeria LNG Board, King Edmund Daukoru, have applauded the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, for the effective implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development, NOGICD, Act and the huge impact it had made on the economy.
They spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, during the groundbreaking ceremony of a 64,000 litres per day lubricants blending plant being developed at Gbarain, Bayelsa State, by Eraskson Nigerian Limited in partnership with the NCDMB.
Former President Jonathan had signed the NOGICD Bill into law in April 2010 when he was in office and he extolled NCDMB under the leadership of Engr. Simbi Wabote for the outstanding successes it had accomplished, notably for catalysing the industrialisation of Bayelsa State through the deliberate domiciliation of strategic oil and gas projects and capacities. Some of these include the 12,000 barrels per day, bpd, Azikel modular refinery and the 2,000bpd Atlantic modular refinery, Rungas composite LPG cylinder manufacturing facility at Polaku, the oil and gas industrial park at Emeyal1 and the Board’s 17-storey headquarters building.
Others are the partnership with a core investor and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Ltd for the development of 10,000 metric tonnes per day methanol production plant in Brass, the development of the Brass Island Shipyard to domicile the repair and maintenance of vessels and LNG carriers and the partnership with NNPC and a core investor for the development of a coastal petroleum products terminal in Brass, Bayelsa State as well as the construction of the Oloibiri Oil and Gas Museum and Research Centre in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state in collaboration with PTDF, Shell, and the Bayelsa State Government.