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  • US Consulate visits Nigerdock on agenda setting for Bilateral Policy

    US Consulate visits Nigerdock on agenda setting for Bilateral Policy

    A delegation of the United States Consulate General, led by the Deputy Economic Counsellor, Joel A. Kopp, has visited Nigerdock at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) in Lagos. The team has an advisory role to the U.S. government in shaping bilateral policy for Nigeria.

    Speaking during the visit, the U.S. delegation reiterated interest in Jagal as a success story despite the challenges businesses face in Nigeria. Success stories help to lay the groundwork for a stable business environment.   Such will be conveyed during the proposed visit of the U.S. Congressional delegation to Nigeria.

    The delegation praised Nigerdock for its doggedness in the face of challenges.  Mr. Osman ‘’Oz’’ Tat, who is the Political /Economic Section chief, stated that ‘‘the story of Jagal is heartening and a good story of a company deciding not to be bogged down by challenges; forging ahead, no matter the odds’’.

    He stressed the need for friendly economic policies to  attract investors.

    The delegation toured Nigerdock’s facilities, including its upgraded logistics and supply services base, with its full suite of services, including 24/7 direct access quay sides, warehousing and laydown areas, diesel and potable water storage, waste management and an array of handling equipment.

    Nigerdock is a wholly owned Nigeria company with diverse capabilities to support highly complex oil and gas projects.

  • Nigerdock graduates 49

    Nigerdock graduates 49

    To promote local content and develop human capacity, the Nigerdock has graduated 49 vocational trainees from its Training and Development Academy.

    The trainees, which comprised 47 men and two women are secondary school graduates. They began on-the-job training  in May 2016. Twenth-four of them acquired skills in welding with (international: 6G and 6GR certifications and Nigerdock Certification of Completion-NDCC). Nineteen of them were trained in fitting and six were trained in machining.

    At the graduation, which held at the Nigerdock facility on Snake Island, Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ), the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Executive Secretary, Simbi Wabote, who was represented by Manager, Capacity Development Division, Iwhiwhu Maurice Kelly, appreciated Nigerdock, Samsung Heavy Industries and Total for further deepening local content and improving Nigeria’s human capacity development through its world class training academy.

    “We commend Nigerdock, Samsung Heavy Industries Limited and Total Upstream Nigeria Limited because we are confident that these vocational trainees have been trained in various skills that empower them to provide the necessary manpower and services for the sector and they can compete with their counterparts in other parts of the world,” he noted.

    Group Corporate Affairs Director, Jagal, Mrs. Joy Okebalama, reaffirmed Nigerdock’s commitment to championing local content development. She lauded Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria Limited, Total and NCDMB for supporting the programme.

  • Nigerdock graduates 48

    Nigerdock Plc has graduated 48 trainees from its Training and Development Academy under Egina Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Project.

    The institution offers quality and competence needs-based training for its workers and clients.

    The Nigerdock Academy, which is globally recognised, has trained tradesmen and professionals for over 6,000  graduates in various skills, including project management, quality assurance, occupational health and safety, welding, fitting, painting and coating, machining, lifting, rigging and scaffolding inse inception.

    According to the Director, Group Corporate Affairs, Jagal, Joy Okebalama, “Just some weeks ago we unveiled the re-branded Nigerdock training and development academy and today we are yet again celebrating and graduating 48 professional trainees.

    ‘’These trainees are university graduates that have trained in several skill sets, including project engineering, project planners, Welding engineering, fabrication engineering, post-weld heat treatment – quality assurance, quality control (QAQC), lifting operations, coating inspection, contract administration, health safety and environment, non-destructive technicians, cost control, procurement specialists, dimension control, welding inspectors, materials control & monitoring and Information Communication Technology.”

    These training were in agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria (SHIN) Limited for the delivery of National Human Capacity Development on the job training under the EGINA FPSO Project for 15 months – February 1, last year to April 28.

    “These  trainees received hands-on-training, based on curriculum focused on prescribed international certifications for each skill-set from internationally accredited subject matter experts. They benefited from training in real life environment – from start to finish with nothing simulated, in-depth theoretical and hands-on training and access to pool of internationally accredited subject matter experts in different skillsets.

    ‘’Most of the certifications were obtained  from Oil and Gas Training Association of Nigeria (OGTAN)-member training service providers while some were obtained overseas due to their non-availability in country,” she added.

    One of the graduates praised Nigerdock for empowering them with the quality expertise through the training and development academy. “It has not been an easy 15 months, but itis a transforming experience none of us will ever forget.

    ‘’We have been taught by various experts and on several skills set. Nigerdock Training and Development Academy has empowered us and made us professionals who are qualified for local and international practice. With our t raining we are all internationally certified. We are exceptionally grateful that this training academy is located within the shores of our country and it is one we can boast of.”

  • NEPZA boss hails Nigerdock

    NEPZA boss hails Nigerdock

    The Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Mr. Emmanuel Jime, has commended the management of Nigeria’s first privately owned free zone, Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) and leading indigenous energy services provider, Nigerdock, for their significant contributions to the growth and development of the energy sector.
    Mr. Jime, during his recent familiarisation tour to SIIFZ, where Nigerdock is located, said NEPZA was deeply impressed by the level of organisation and state-of-the-art infrastructure available at the free zone. He expressed the readiness of NEPZA to collaborate with stakeholders across Nigeria to enhance service delivery and operations of free zones nationwide.
    ”I am truly pleased with this visit to the Snake Island integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) facility. It was a very robust and sincere engagement which I am very grateful. I am looking forward to working with the management for better understanding, service delivery in a collaboration to advance the operations of free zones nationwide,” he said.
    The NEPZA team comprising other senior officials were received by Chairman of SIMCO Free Zone Company, Al Haji Abdulahi Yusufu, alongside other top executives of SIMCO Free Zone Company, the management firm of SIIFZ.

  • Nigerdock Academy rebrands

    To enhance Nigeria’s local capacity in the energy sector, Nigerdock has rebranded itsTraining and Development Academy.

    Representatives of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN), Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW), International Oil and Gas Companies (IOCs) as well as business partners, graced the occasion. They commended Nigerdock for its efforts to bolster local content and put the country on the global map in complex oil and gas projects delivery.

    Unveiling the new academy known as Nigerdock Training Centre, the Group Corporate Affairs Director, Jagal, Joy Okebalama, noted that by rebranding the centre, the company will be able to replicate its excellent quality footprints in the industry. It will also be able to increase its accreditation, enable partnerships with relevant public and private organisations, arm the youth with skills for employment and life and will, ultimately, be franchised across the country to offer internationally accredited qualifications in various disciplines.

    She recalled the centre recorded a landmark in 2012, when it was adjudged most suitable for developing training programmes in various skills lacking in the oil and gas sector on the back of the Chevron DSO Project in the country.

    A  globally recognised centre,the academy has been training tradesmen and professionals for over three decades, recording over 6,000 trainees in various skills. They include project management, quality assurance, occupational health and safety, welding, fitting, painting and coating, machining, lifting, rigging and scaffolding.

  • Nigerdock delivers fabricated structures for Egina FPSO

    Nigerdock delivers fabricated structures for Egina FPSO

    • Firm rebrands training, development academy

    Leading indigenous energy services company, Nigerdock, has successfully fabricated and loaded out structures for the Total operated Egina Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.

    The structures were fabricated at Nigerdock yard located at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) Lagos, by the company’s professionally-trained Nigerian workforce. With the completion and load out of the structure, Nigerdock has done a substantial tonnage for the floating vessel surpassing other energy services providers locally.

    The structures include the Riser Porch, Flare Tower, Helideck, Protection Structure, Access Tower, Crew Boat Bathing, Crane Pedestal, Telecom Mast, Living Quarter Blocks, Laydown Area Blocks, Muster Station, Work Boat Structure, and Vertical Caissons, among others, with a combined weight of 7336 tonnes, were loaded out in phases at Nigerdock’s industry facility, renowned as West Africa’s largest shipyard.

    Nigerdock fabricated and loaded the 732-ton Flare Tower Structure for the Egina FPSO in March last year, which sailed away to Korea for initial integration of the fabricated structures onto the FPSO.

    Speaking at the loadout ceremony of the structures, Group Managing Director, Jagal Energy, Chris Bennett, praised the management and staff of Nigerdock for their contributions towards the accomplished project. He said the timely delivery of the fabricated structures for Egina FPSO was another significant achievement and boost to the local content initiative in Nigeria.

    “Nigerdock remains the foremost local content champion, committed to the vision of building the country’s local capacity and delivering value to the economy. Our capacity and capabilities have been reaffirmed through the success of Egina FPSO Project. It gives our clients and the government a measure of confidence, trust and reassurance that Nigerdock, can operate with global best practice.

    “We continuously set the highest standards, which is why we have recorded a series of firsts in the industry. Remarkably, these projects were executed in Nigeria without any lost time injury (LTI), which compares with best in class in Europe and America,” he said.

    A prime advocate for developing Nigerian Content, Nigerdock epitomises the values of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act 2010, which emphasises the development of local skills, technology transfer, local manufacturing and use of local manpower to upgrade Nigeria’s manpower capacity, with results that benefit the government, private companies, and Nigeria’s economy.

    The FPSO is being developed for deployment in the Egina Oil field, located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. The field is currently under development and production is scheduled to begin in 2018. Nigerdock was selected by Samsung/ Total for critical in-country fabrication works and training services as the provider of choice.

    Also Nigerdock in line with its commitment to enhance Nigeria’s local capacity and provide competent indigenous workforce for the energy services sector, unveiled its re-branded Training and Development Academy, the foremost indigenous institution offering the highest quality and competence needs-based training for its workforce and clients in the sector.

    The fully-equipped academy, which was unveiled last week, is a globally recognised centre that has been training tradesmen and professionals for over three decades, recording over 6,000 trainees in various skills including project management, quality assurance, occupational health and safety, welding, fitting, painting and coating, machining, lifting, rigging and scaffolding, among others.

    Representatives of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN), Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW), International Oil and Gas Companies (IOCs) as well as business partners, graced the occasion and commended Nigerdock for its consistent efforts to bolster local content and put Nigeria on the global map in terms of complex oil and gas projects delivery.

    Group Corporate Affairs Director, Jagal, Joy Okebalama, noted that by re-branding the centre, the company will be able to replicate its excellent quality footprints in the industry. It will also be able to increase its accreditation portfolio, enable partnerships with relevant public and private organisations, equip Nigerian youths with skills for employment and life and will ultimately be franchised across Nigeria with the bid to offering internationally accredited qualifications in various disciplines.

  • Nigerdock’s facilities are ideal, says NPA chief

    Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman has   hailed  Nigerdock’s  management for its commitment to indigenous capacity building.

    She spoke when she toured the facilities of Nigerdock on the Snake Island Free Trade Zone in Lagos.

    Usman said: “We appreciate the need for local content development and we would push for its success in Nigeria. We will ensure enabling environment and the necessary legislation to block any form of monopoly in the logistics sub-sector.”

    “We are keen to proper regulation that will promote transparency in the sector because no monopoly will be helpful to the development of the Nigerian economy. We are working to ensure there is adherence to local content policy within the environment. We will also ensure there is adherence to the employment of Nigerians in all operations,” she stated.

    Nigerdock Plc Chairman, Mr. Anwar Jarmakani, told the NPA chief that it was only a committed indigenous company that would have invested over $500million in-country as Nigerdock had done, assuring the company will continue to invest to create jobs for Nigerians.

    Jarmakani urged Hadiza Usman to use her offices to create a level- playing field for stakeholders in the shipyard, ship-building and logistics business.

    ”We need consistency in government policy.

  • Nigerdock delivers Total’s Egina FPSO’s first fabricated structures

    Nigerdock delivers Total’s Egina FPSO’s first fabricated structures

    Nigerdock said it has completed the fabrication and sail away of the ‘Flare Tower’ for the  Egina Floating Production, storage and offloading (FPSO) project for Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNL).

    The FPSO is being developed for deployment in the Egina oil field, located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. The field is currently under development, and production is scheduled to begin in 2018. Nigerdock was selected by Samsung/Total for critical in-country fabrication works and training services as the provider of choice.

    The Flare Tower structure that weighs 732 tonnes was completed on time, loaded out and sailed away on March 24, the company said. It is one of a number of structures fabricated by Nigerdock at its fabrication yard on Snake Island Integrated Free Zone for Samsung Heavy Industries Egina FPSO project. The remaining works will continue through to the first quarter of 2017 as contracted.

    The Project Manager, Emeka Uhara, said: “The fabrication for Egina was a big success being delivered on time and within budget, and to world class specifications. ‘’We have expended over 1.7 million man-hours on the project, and it has helped generate employment for hundreds of Nigerians while also creating the opportunity for the provision of thousands of man-hours of specialised training.”

    The structures completed at Nigerdock’s fabrication yard at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, Lagos, are a major boost to the Federal Government’s Nigerian Content policy, which seeks to domesticate more oil and gas activities in Nigeria under the guidance of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

  • Monopoly adds to cost of oil production, says Nigerdock chief

    Monopoly adds to cost of oil production, says Nigerdock chief

    The monopoly in the oil and gas logistics and supply services sector is largely responsible for high cost of oil production, a stakeholder has said. It also adds an extra $3-$5 to per barrel of crude produced, Nigerdock and Jagal Group Chair, Anwar Jamarkani said.

    He spoke when the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) , Customs Deputy Comptroller-General and other senior officers of the service paid a working visit to the Nigerdock and Snake Island Integrated Free Zone on Snake Island, Lagos.

    According to Jamarkani, the dominant monopoly in the Nigerian oil and gas logistics and supply services has existed for over 20 years, sabotaging the national economy, conspiring and working against any potential competitors and against Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ).

    He noted that the monopoly has consistently and aggressively used various government institutions to compromise, maintain and entrench its monopoly with impunity. Regrettably, attempts according to him, have been made in times past to also use the customs. “We, therefore, appreciate the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is aggressively doing away with such impunity,” he said, urging the Customs chief to encourage investors by creating a level play ground for them.

    Jamarkani said: “The net effects of the monopoly’s actions are numerous. This monopoly adds extra cost of $3-$5 per barrel produced in Nigeria, which translates to over $1.5 billion per annum. This monopoly is a  toll gate. They have forced the oil and gas industry and the nation into capitulation, and driven away investments from Nigeria.

    “The oil and gas supply and logistics service in Nigeria is the most expensive in the world because of this entrenched monopoly. This monopoly seriously damages the international reputation of Nigeria. The monopoly has over the last 20 years used a non-existent law to justify the assertion and false claim that “all oil and gas cargo must first be discharged at their ports of preference.”

    He continued: “The monopoly has consistently used this non-existent law to coerce the industry and service providers into dosing their bidding and thereby undermining the Nigerian economy. If this law indeed exists, the Federal Government would not have encouraged other critical players like SIIFZ to make huge investment in the country. SIIFZ and Nigerdock are open for competitive business and we are determined to bring down your operational costs by at least 30 per cent.

    “In line with the Federal Government’s vision for free and fair competition, there is no room for the continued monopoly in Nigeria as it is sabotaging the industry and the national interest.”

    Jamarkani said SIIFZ and Nigerdock have created more than 6000 direct jobs, delivered landmark projects for Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Total, Hyundai and Samsung, as well as first fabrication for Total/Samsung Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. “The facility has also trained over 6000 people for the oil industry and delivered over 27, 000 training programmes. It is the largest shipyard facility in West Africa,” he added.

    The Customs chief, while addressing the workers, said: “No business can grow without committed workers. You have added great value to this company. On behalf of the Federal Government, I congratulate you and appreciate what you are doing. I assure you that whatever we can do as a government to support this company, we will do it. There is need to encourage companies like this to create more employment and assure you of government’s readiness to provide the enabling environment.”

    He added that with the presence of a company like SIIFZ, Nigeria will not have to carry its vessels and machineries to Korea for repair, painting and maintenance.

  • LADOL, Nigerdock spend over $1b on facilities

    LADOL, Nigerdock spend over $1b on facilities

    Two of Nigeria’s ship repair and fabrication yards, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) and Nigerdock, have invested over $1.1billion to enhance their productive capacity. This is in line with their mandate to meet the Local Content requirement in the fabrication and building of oil platforms for International Oil Companies  (IOCs) and indigenous oil production and servicing firms.

    The Chief Executive, LADOL, Dr. Amy  Jadesimi, and the  Group Executive Chairman, JAGAL Group, operators of Nigerdock, Anwar Jarmakani, who spoke separately yesterday when they received the  Controller-General, Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col Hameed Ali (rtd),  said they have invested $600million and $500million respectively to improve on service delivery.

    In response to Mrs Jadesimi’s wellcome address, Ali, expressed delight at the giant strides of the wholly indigenous owned facility which has so far attracted $600million in local content input. He said for  an indigenous investor to take such bold step amid the risk in undertaking such ventures, the project must be appreciated by the Presidency.

    Ali said: “I have come and I have seen, they say ‘seeing is believing’. I will take the message to President Muhammadu Buhari whom I’m sure will be impressed if he gets to know what you are doing here. The President is interested, more so that you are the first people that are doing this kind of project in West Africa…and to say that your organisation is owned by Nigerians, it is amazing.

    “With what you are doing here, I have no doubt that government will continue to support and encourage you. “Any government will be glad to support an entity such as this that will put us (Nigeria) at par with other industrially developed countries of the world.”

    Dr. Jadesimi said the zone which has been developed into a world-class facility from a swamp, has so far generated about N16.9billion in revenue in the past 10 years.

    “Over the years, we have done our best in terms of Customs revenue generation. So far, we have generated almost N16.9billion as Customs revenue,” she said, adding that more would come when the project is completed.

    Going forward for the Egina project,  the customs duty of the FPSO will be paid through the Apapa Customs Command and that will be determined by the Customs assessment team in the area of value.

    “What we can tell you so far is that the value of what we have been doing is put at about $20 million. We are sure that with that, we will be able to give you the percentage of the $3.8billoin worth of the entire vessel for your overall assessment.

    “The essence of what we are doing now is that you spend about two years building the vessel, bring in a lot of raw materials for the fabrication before the vessel goes out into the customs territory and that is the point at which you pay duty,” she said.

    She said beyond revenue generation, other socio-economic values, such as jobs as well as preservation of foreign exchange are other advantages of the project to the nation.

    “The number of enterprises at the free zone has also been increasing. We are expanding our activities and looking at agricultural processing, just as we are focusing on job creation. By the end of this year, we estimated that we would have created over 2000 jobs,” she said.

    On his part, Jarmakani said the company has invested additional $500million on the facility and urged the Federal Government to stop monopoly in the country’s oil and gas logistics and supply service as it makes the sector uncompetitive.

    He said the monopoly has forced the oil and gas industry and the nation into capitulation.

    Jarmakani said: “The Nigeria oil and gas supply and logistics services is the most expensive in the world because of its entrenched monopoly. They have driven away investments from Nigeria and seriously damaged the international reputation of Nigeria.”

    He also alleged that monopolists have consistently and aggressively used different government institutions to compromise, maintain and entrench its monopoly position with impunity. According to him,  attempts have been made in the past to use the Customs. He however expressed appreciation that the present administration is aggressively doing away with what he described as “impunity.”

    He stated the readiness of his company to compete favorably in the sector. “Snake Island Integrated Free Zone and Nigerdock are open for competive business and we are determined to bring down  operational costs by at