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  • Eni, ADNOC seal $875m deal on two UAE fields

    Italian oil firm, Eni, has signed, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE),  two concession agreements with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for the acquisition of five per cent stake in the Lower Zakum offshore oil field and 10 per cent stake in the oil, condensate and gas offshore fields of Umm Shaif and Nasr, for a participation fee of about $875 million for 40 years.

    Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary Nigerian Agip Oil Company said the signing was attended by  Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Group Chief Executive Officer, and Eni’s Chief Executive Officer, Claudio Descalzi.

    The agreements represent a strategic move for Eni to gain access to a country with hydrocarbon reserves among the largest in the world.

    Lower Zakum is about 65 kilometres off the coast of Abu Dhabi. The discovery dates back to 1963 and production began in 1967. It has a target production of 450,000 barrels of oil daily. Umm Shaif and Nasr are located about 135 kilometres from the coast of Abu Dhabi and have a target production of 460,000 barrels of oil daily.

    Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi said: “I’m very pleased about this agreement creating a larger presence for Eni in Middle East, in line with our expansion strategy, and creating a strong alliance with ADNOC and Abu Dhabi. The stakes in the two concessions give access to giant fields with huge potential and Eni is willing to contribute its best technology to maximise the future production.”

    Dr Al Jaber said: “These agreements underline the international market’s confidence in ADNOC’s long-term growth plans and the UAE’s stable and reliable investment environment. They also broaden and diversify our partnership base, while contributing experience, technology, capital and market access.

    “Our partnership with Eni, and other concession partners, will enable us to accelerate our growth, increase revenue and improve integration across the upstream value chain, as part of our ongoing transformation and build on the foundations that have been laid to deliver a more profitable upstream business. With these agreements ADNOC continues to leverage its 46-year legacy of successful energy partnerships, in support of its 2030 strategy.”

    In both concessions, ADNOC owns a 60 per cent stake while the operator is ADNOC Offshore.

  • Why govt, stakeholders should assist FUPRE, by VC

    During a visit to The Nation, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State, Prof. Akaehomen Akii Ibhadode, spoke with AKINOLA AJIBADE and AMBROSE NNAJI, on  the university’s achievements and funding challenges. He urged stakeholders to assist the institution.

    What makes the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State, different from others?

    Let me start by saying that there are two reasons we are paying this visit to the management of The Nation. Firstly, we are here to appreciate The Nation for the visibility the school has been enjoying from it, especially during its convocation last year. Secondly, we are here to present to the newspaper the possibilities of the university, its potential and challenges.

    FUPRE was set up in 2007 as a specialised petroleum university.  Up till today, it is the only petroleum university in Africa and the sixth in the world. The school has the special mandate to train high-level manpower for the oil and gas industry. As we all know, crude oil remains the mainstay of the country and as a result, the Federal Government felt the need to establish a specialised university to develop the petroleum industry.

    The insitution has had some challenges.  Through the mandate of the university, the school has a crop of highly committed and talented members of staff who are delivering the mandate based on available  resources to take care of the school.

    The school has 13 courses which are fully accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC). We have full accreditation from the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). It is a specialised university and it’s different from others because it tries to put industry skills into its curriculum from its inception.

    What is the relationship between the university and oil and gas industry operators and stakeholders. What has the school done to prove its mettle?

    The school interacts with stakeholders in the oil and gas industry to enable students after graduation, walk into the oil companies and secure jobs. It has done a lot of collaborations with the industry in this regard. In terms of the things the school has done, it has come up with quite a number of innovations. Some of them have been patented while others are still in the process of being patented.

    Last year, some students and lecturers of marine engineering department came up with a design where they generated energy from ocean waves. That project had support from a Norwegian company to develop it further.

    Also, the school has developed a robot for surveillance of petroleum pipelines. In the event there is a leakage in the pipeline, this robot can detect the leakage by sending signal through which to locate the leakage(s).

    The school in 2015 entered the Shell Eco-Marathon competition, which holds yearly in South Africa. In the competition, students of each competing school designed a vehicle or car that can go a kilometre with one litre of fuel. Our university came first and overall best with its vehicle – Delta Cruz. In 2016, the school entered again and came second. In 2017, having seen the accomplishents of the university, Shell chose to sponsor our project in the competition and we came second again. For the first two years, the school ran the project by raising money within our means. Shell has challenged us to establish automobile engine that can run on electric fuel, or solar. We are working on that. We also plan to build a refinery. We have come out with a design and we are working on bringing it to fruition.

    That is one of the reasons we are urging the stakeholders, such as the government, and operators in the value chain to come and see what we are doing. On our own, we are trying to reach out to investors in the industry with a view to see how we can bring this to pass.

    The idea is to make this mini-refinery operational so that after this, we would build another modular refinery. These are the things we have done. It is our dream to find solution to the recurrent fuel scarcity.

    We want to build low-cost refineries in various states of the federation and we are appealing all stakeholders and funding agencies to support this objective. We are reaching out to operators, including those of marginal fields to see how they can tap into these inventions, produce and refine oil at reduced costs. Apart from solving the fuel issues, it will create unimaginable direct and indirect jobs for Nigerians.

    What do you want the government to do for the university?

    We are challenging the government and other stakeholders to come and assist us and bring this idea to fruition. We are partnering a United Kingdom-based company to achieve growth in the petroleum sector. We are also developing some computer industrial games for the students. As students, instead of wasting their time on other games and social media networks or dating platforms,they can have fun through these computer industrial games and while doing this,they can also learn from the process one or two things about their professions and disciplines in more practical-like ways. In our mid-year report, all the things we are doing are stated there. That is why we are looking at how our challenges would be solved by telling people to come and see what we are doing. As I said, our research would not be driven by the publications but by the need to create the right value for the society.

    These are materials for wealth creation. We need at least N5 billion yearly. We need to build laboratories, get a drilling rig for practical and a couple of simulators for engineering activities. If we have the funds, we would procure a drilling platformwhere students can train using training simulators, among other equipment. Because the university does not have one, our students have to travel all the way to the Nigerian Naval College in Sapele to use theirs for training.We want to see how we can use the waste materials around us to provide energy, so that we can discharge less fumes into the environment.

    With this we will be able to create values for the society. We would not remain like this. We aim at making our discoveries very standard an also commercialise them such that the society will derive value from what we are doing.

    There are so many problems facing us as a country ranging from turning our raw materials into valuable finished products, among others and those are the areas we are focusing on.

    How can we extend the life of an engine?

    That is why we are calling on companies to come and partner us since we have funding challenges. If we able to create value for the system, we would better the lots of the society.

    Why is the government not showing interest in the university?

    It is not that the government is not showing interest, but FUPRE is not getting what it requires as a specialised university. You know the government has a lot on its hands. Sometimes, the presentations made to government officials are applauded, but after that everybody goes to sleep.

    We have made noise to let the stakeholders know what we are doing and we can do as an institution, and we are now throwing the challenge to the government and to whoever cares. If we get the needed attention, we are sure we can deliver on our mandate.

    The fact is that FUPRE got the first take-off grant of N500 million released by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) was supposed to release another N500 million to the university, but that has not happened. But last year, the PTDF said they were working on it and we are still waiting for them to do so.

    Also, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, PTDF and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) were expected to contribute two per cent of their yearly budgets for development of research programmes in petroleum technology and facilities acquisition in the university but the contributions are not being made. PTF was also given the mandate to do the same thing. And also it sounds ironical that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) does not have a single project in FUPRE. We find that very strange. We have gone to them that they said they are going to do something, we are still waiting for them to do that. I must tell you that since this management came on board, it started creating a vision of making the university one of the best specialized universities in the world and it has been working towards achieving that. One of your correspondents came during our convocation he saw a lot of things we exhibited. We also provide trainings, research and development (R&D) services for oil and gas sector.

    We are facing serious funding challenges. We are calling on stakeholders to come to our aid, we are not begging, we are saying come and see what we are doing and add value. We want to be industry relevant by solving industry problems and for oil fields owners. We want the university to be a training hub for Africa especially the countries that have oil. Nigeria has over 50 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, then Ghana, Tanzania and all other countries that are coming up, we will be able to assist them. Let the resources come so that we would be able to do that which we are supposed to do.

    What we are saying is that the University after 11years of establishment is suffering from serious neglect. What is important in this matter is that the petroleum industry will remain the mainstay of our economy even in the foreseeable future. Yes the government is making efforts to diversify the economy, but as it is today, the main driver of our economy is the petroleum resources, and it is established that we are created to train high level manpower that will drive the industry, so the university needs all the support now.

    From what you have said, doesn’t the Federal Government give adequate allocation to a federal university like yours?

    They do, but you know there are over 40federal universities so the resources are shared in the formula based on students –that is why we are saying they should capture us in the 2018 budget and if they do let the budget be fully implemented.

  • COMEG completes well drilling survey in Ibadan

    The Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG) has completed well drilling survey in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

    Speaking after the four-week exercise, the Technical Director, Geocardinal Engineering Services Limited and consultant on the project,  Titilope Adeyemo, an engineer, disclosed that over 50 questionnaires were distributed to respondents across the eight local governments in the city, including Ibadan Southwest, Akinyele and Egbeda, among others.

    Besides, he  noted that COMEG’s membership registration forms were freely given to more than 40 individual and corporate members to avail themselves of the unique benefits.

    Adeyemo said though the exercise was not without some attendant hitches, it provided clue on the state of the age-long drilling business in Ibadan.

    He said in most of the offices, the prominent features were abandoned and moribund drilling rigs and equipment, indicating the redundancy of these indigenous owners and practitioners.

    He said the proliferation of foreign investors might have forced them out of business as they were unable to favourably considering the modern equipment and technology deployed by the foreigners.

    He, however, hinted that this had been at a great cost to the nation as the aliens only derive perverse satisfaction in operating with utter disregard for ethical codes and professionalism.

    An example, according to him, is the Indian investors who allegedly patronise quacks and impostors for geophysical survey of groundwater as part of pre-drilling.

    He said often the geophysical data generated by these untrained geophysicists are inaccurate and unreliable leading to the drilling of dry holes with insufficient and unsustainable yield

    There is also the violation of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) rules while drilling by them as most of the drillers and drilling assistants who are predominantly Nigeriens are without helmets, ear plugs, nose covers and boots needed for protection

    This, he noted, predisposes them to health risk that might incapacitate or claim their lives.

  • Eni, FAO seal deal on access to water

    Italian oil firm Eni and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have signed an agreement to foster access to safe and clean water in Nigeria. The two organisations have started drilling boreholes for domestic use and irrigation.

    The project aims at assisting internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities suffering from the Northeast-Lake Chad crises, which have led to  displacements and prolonged disruption of agricultural activities, livestock and fishing.

    The deal is in response to the Federal Government’s request to oil and gas companies to support the alleviation of the sufferings of victims of insurgency in the Northeast through sustainable interventions in the affected communities.

    The project is aligned to the the “Buhari Plan – Rebuilding the Northeast” for socio-economic stabilisation of the region.

    The FAO Country Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African Sates (ECOWAS), Suffyan Koroma, praised the government’s initiative, saying the approach would support the efforts to rebuild livelihoods in the region.

    He said: “The Northeast is not strange to FAO. Our interventions in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, have helped Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in camps and those returning to liberated communities, including host communities, to return to their farms and pick up the bits and pieces of their lives again.”

    Eni’s Executive Vice President for Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise Alberto Piatti said: “Public-Private Partnerships allow institutions to leverage the skills of the private sector, and help companies to respond to development needs identified by institutions. They are an opportunity to enhance the role companies can play in sustainable development.”

    The project is the first in the FAO-Eni collaboration. FAO will provide support in identifying the areas of intervention for the wells as well as technical expertise and know-how in the targeted areas, whereas Eni will drill the boreholes and provide them with photovoltaic power systems, including training for their use and maintenance for long term sustainability.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Energy Centre deploys over 20,000 solar systems

    Renewable Energy Centre, Asteven Group, has deployed over 20,000 solar home systems to some communities, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Sunny Akpoyibo, has said.

    He made this known during the launch of the Asteven Renewable Energy Academy and Centre of Excellence at Mowe, Ogun State.

    Akpoyibo said the group and its subsidiaries were established to, among other things, support the Federal Government in addressing the challenges of the negative perception surrounding off-grid solutions and the limited awareness of the benefits of renewable energy.

    Akpoyibo said his firm is in the market to encourage massive adoption of renewable energy technologies and help the government develop policies that would encourage the sub-sector rather than comparing it to other well-established traditional fossil fuel based sub-sectors.

    He also noted that the company wants to address lack of technical competence and capacity which delayed the development of the sector and opportunities for job creation taken elsewhere.

    He observed that the initial high cost of installing and deploying solar solutions whether for home systems, off-grid or mini-grids had proved challenging the traditional sources of funds, such as the banks and financial houses needed to understand the peculiarities of financing solar energy technologies, adding  the government cannot do it alone

    The academy, he said, was committed to developing local capacity, change the course of power access in Nigeria and increase job creation.

     

  • Ciscon, labour feud worsens

    The feud between Ciscon Nigeria Limited, an oil service company, and a labour union over the sack of its workers is getting worse.

    The workers are demanding full payment of their entitlements even, if it means winding down the firm.

    The firm is battling for survival in the face of tumbling oil prices in the past two years, which has led to deferment and cancellation of many projects and downsising.

    About 1,000 workers in the service sector have been sacked. Besides, it was learnt that some of those demanding severance packages were leaving for foreign multinational oil service firms after they had been employed as freshers and trained by the indigenous firm to meet industry skills standards.

    The workers, who were poached by big multinational oil firms, with promises of working aboard and with fat salaries, also sought full exit entitlements from such indigenous firms that are struggling to survive. When they don’t get these entitlements, they resorted to the labour unions, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) for help.

    Ciscon has been forced to declare insolvency as hostility from labour unions and sacked employees assume threatening dimension. The situation has led to massive sack after resolution agreement failed.

    Ciscon Chairman Mr Shawley Coker said the company downsized because of the  downturn in the upstream after weak oil prices and low oil income forced operators to call off projects and cancel contracts when the government offered no buffer for companies that staked funds on equipment and facility acquisition.

    He criticised PENGASSAN for being unconcerned about what the service firms were going through, adding that PENGASSAN was formed to protect the local economy from the multinational oil firms that were exploiting national resources at the expense of the Nigerians.

    PENGASSAN National Public Relations Officer, Comrade Fortune Obi, said: ‘The indigenous companies have always run foul of obeying the laws, especially the constitutional rights of the workers that guarantee their freedom of association.

    ‘’Also in the labour laws and the international treaties, especially that of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to which Nigeria is a signatory, create rooms for workers to belong to the union of their choice and right to collective bargaining. The question is why is it difficult for indigenous companies, including the Ciscon, to respect these laws? Why can’t they respect the CBA that was legally signed with the workers? Or is it bad for the workers to ask for a CBA to guide their dealings with their employers? Why is it that only the indigenous employers that run foul of the right to unionisation, which is allowed by the IOCs?

    ‘’The demands of the workers with Ciscon are contained in a CBA signed by both parties. If they have any problem with the CBA, the management should go back to the table with the workers instead of embarking on blackmail and unilateral decision of severing the workers from their jobs or rendering those workers redundant. The company declared redundancy and the workers are asking for their severance package, which is contained in the CBA signed by the management and the workers’ representatives, which is our union.

    ‘’The Nigerian Content Law is a law to encourage Nigerians to take ownership of the system and operations through the transfer of technical know-how and use of local raw materials for operations in the industry.’’

    Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, said he had not given to that area of industry challenge. “I will pay attention to this more than we have already done because I must confess to you that we have not given enough attention to some of the developing labour issues in the industry,” he said.

     

  • Sub-Sahara Africa oil, gas’ll complement industry value

    Group Managing Consultant and Chief Executive Officer, Sub-Sahara Africa Upstream Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition and Invest Africa Energy, Dapo Ayoola, said the Sub-Sahara Africa Upstream Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition was created as a clearing house for oil and gas practitioners, investors and all who support the value chain process.

    This platform, he said, would make countries of the sub-Sahara Africa including Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia to come together so as to see what each country is doing very well and also help them correct mistakes made in the past. He noted that the Invest Africa Energy is an integral part of Sub-Sahara Africa Upstream Oil and Gas.

    He said the platform would also open up the market in Africa and turn it to a global market.

    “We want to see Nigerians go to Tanzania, Nairobi as consultants, we want to see our investors in Addis Ababa or in Nairobi, it is a new thing we are bringing on board, exchange of ideas and best practice and supporting each other to succeed,”he said, adding that the idea of looking for consultants who do not understand the complexity of the African community should not be encouraged.

    The fourth Sub-Sahara Africa Upstream Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition, scheduled for next month, he said, was being organised by Zenith Professional Training (ZPT), a firm with several years of building oil and gas capacity through industry specialised trainings.

     

     

     

     

     

  • NNPC eyes $15 per barrel crude production

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is  expecting the cost of producing crude oil to drop from $20 to $15 per barrel soon.

    It said it would ensure that  the pipes for the construction of the 683-kilometre Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline, approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), were sourced from pipe mills in adherence to the Nigerian Content Law.

    NNPC’s Group Managing Director Dr Maikanti Baru said this became necessary to bring down the cost of producing fuel and make the product available.

    He spoke during the technology and innovation expo organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Abuja.

    Represented by NNPC Chief Operating Officer Mr. Seidu Mohammed, Baru said the corporation had been innovative, hence the drop in the production cost per barrel of oil.

    Baru said: “What NNPC will like Nigerians to know is the drive we are making to bring down costs. The more we bring down the production cost of oil and gas, the more money that comes eventually to the federal government and the pockets of the states and local governments. That is the kind of thing we are trying to do.

    ‘’NNPC has been innovative in its efforts to bring down the cost. Many Nigerians don’t even know that we have started the local content drive. We have brought down the cost of producing a barrel of oil to the neighbourhood of $20 and our target is to make sure we are at $15 and we continue to match forward.”

    The NNPC last August said it reduced the cost of oil production from $78 to $23 per barrel, representing a 70.5 per cent drop in production cost.

    Baru also explained at the expo that the corporation would continue to work with agencies, such as the Nigerian Content Development Management Board, (NCDMB), to ensure that the cost of production in the oil and gas sector is competitive.

    He said: “Engineering and technology are the bedrock of oil and gas, without that we may not have been where we are today. But then, what have we been doing at the NNPC? We have been trying to make sure that all the activities are domiciled in Nigeria.

    “There was a time even tender documents had to go to London for evaluation, but today, we have fully domesticated the engineering aspect of it.

    “We have, in collaboration with the Nigerian Content Development Management Board gone ahead to get Nigerians who are innovative and willing to invest in fabrication.

    “In other words, what we want to do is to also domesticate the big chunk of where we spend the money, that is procurement, and we have gone far.

    “There are fabrications in areas of line pipes and valves. What we are doing in NNPC is to support all forms of innovations in the upstream, midstream and downstream.”

    On the AKK pipeline and how NNPC plans to use locally-sourced pipes to build it, Baru stated: “I said engineering is part of it, so when you come to the procurement of the project, The main input in that project is the line pipes.”

  • Nigeria gas reserves up by 4.067tcf, says report

    Nigeria‘s natural gas re-serves have risen by 4.067 trillion cubic feet (tcf) from 187.998tcf in 2014 to 192.065tcf in 2015, the Nigerian Natural Resource Charter (NNRC) has said.

    In its ‘2017 Benchmarking Exercise Report’ obtained by The Nation, the body said gas reserves in 2013 stood at 181.95 tcf, 182. 258tcf in 2012, 183.434tcf in 2011 and 182.817 tcf in 2010.

    The report said the reserves included associated and non-associated gas, adding that the country remained one of the largest producers of natural gas.

    “The firm relies on statistics from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the monthly financial bulletin of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and other sources to arrive at the figures that were computed as the country’s natural gas reserves. The country has gas reserves of 192.065 tcf of gas in 2015 and 187.998 trillion cubic feet of gas in 2014,” the report said.

    The body said many of the stakeholders interviewed raised concerns about the ability of the government to generate accurate figures because of lack of a strong research culture.

    In the report, Nigeria is exporting part of the gas it is processing while at the same time uses part of it for electricity generation and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

    It said the country has become a major exporter of gas globally by selling its gas to countries in Asia.

    The report added that the country should increase its gas production to make processing and exportation of gas a veritable source of revenue and immediately regain the market it has lost to the discovery of shale gas in the United States (U.S).

     

  • Senators laud Total, partners on Egina FPSO

    The Senate Committees on Gas and Petroleum Resources (Upstream) have commended Total and its partners for the progress made in the completion of the Egina Floating Storage, Production and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, being finalised at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in LADOL Free Zone, Lagos.

    The Senate Committee Chairman on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Senator Omotayo Alasoadura, and his counterpart, Senate Gas Committee Chairman, Senator Barnabas Gemade, led their committees’ members on an inspection of the 330m-long Egina FPSO, where they expressed delight with the pace of work on the unit and its massive Nigerian content.

    “Seeing the Egina FPSO has shown that a good investment has been made to ensure that Nigeria moves deeper and deeper into the sea to exploit its God-given endowment of oil,” Senator Alasoadura said, pointing out that touring the FPSO facility had been a very wonderful experience.

    “I believe that with Egina going operational very soon, Nigeria will be able to meet its quota not only to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), but also will have enough to meet its other commitments. I believe that it is a good project and Total has done a great thing bringing such a facility to Nigeria for integration of locally fabricated modules, making it first in Africa. This milestone has brought us to where we should be as the giant of Africa,” he added.

    On the local content work being done on the project, Senator Alasoadura said: “It is massive development of capacity. You cannot do much for local development without building capacity and that has been done by giving Nigerians the opportunity to build part of what we are seeing here today. I am sure the next time it will take less money and time to build something similar because of developed capacity.”

    Senator Gemade said: “We are very excited about the participation of Nigerians that are technically qualified in major and huge projects like Egina. This impact cannot just be swept under the carpet.Those responsible for actualising this project must be commended.”

    The Managing Director of Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Nicolas Terraz, thanked the senators for taking the time to visit the Egina FPSO saying, “What you are seeing here is a product of the hard work of our staff, many of whom are Nigerians, along with our very supportive partners and Nigerian authorities.”

    Other senators on the visit were Senators Gershom Bassey, Magnus Abe, Samuel Egwu, Peter Nwaoboshi, Benjamin Uwajumogu, Baba Garbai, Ogola Foster and Ibrahim Kurfi.

    Being the first project to be launched after the enactment of the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act in 2010, the ongoing integration and work on the Egina project pushes the Nigerian local content on the project to the highest level and has set a benchmark for the Nigerian oil and gas industry.