Broron Oil and Gas Limited, an indigenous company with speciality in subsea and marine services, and its technical partners, MOS Marine Offshore Services of Singapore are joining hands to setup a diving school in Lagos.
The Singaporian company, which has been in partnership with Broron Oil and Gas Limited since 2011, offers services in the area of mobilization and demobilization of diving and ROV equipment; lashing facilities offshore equipment vessels and barges; engineering designs and fabrication works; procurement services for diving systems, among others.
At a joint media parley held in Lagos, the CEO of Broron Oil and Gas Limited, Chief Henry Ojogho, said the diving school, which will be sited in Lagos, will offer training in air/saturated diving systems and subsea intervention and maintenance services to Nigerians and get them more involved in offshore operations to become beneficiaries of the local content law.
Chief Ojogho, whose company also offers services in sea engineering, offshore installation, offshore vessel services, construction and commissioning services as well as manpower supply services, added that the initiative to set up the diving school in Nigeria was also borne out of the determination to expand the manpower capacity and technical indept of younger Nigerians to be able to compete favourably with foreigners in offshore engineering services.
He called on the Nigerian government to keep creating the enabling environment for indigenous companies in the oil and gas sector, particularly those in the offshore services for them to enjoy equal treatment, if not more than the foreign service firms which currently enjoy more patronage from International Oil Companies, courtesy of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Chief Ojogho lamented a situation whereby the local content law, which was meant to benefit indigenous companies, has continued to deprive them of business deals in the oil and gas sector, while their foreign counterpart are getting better patronage at the expense of local firms.