As the nation celebrates her 62nd independence, Chevron Nigeria limited (CNL), reiterated its commitment to growing the country’s local content by building mutually beneficial partnerships aimed at building indigenous capacity in the nation’s oil and gas industry.
The oil major also said it would continue to support federal government’s Nigerian Content Development (NCD) policy.
The company noted that its strategy is to encourage the participation of Nigerian companies in the oil and gas industry through the deliberate creation of business opportunities for service providers and suppliers.
Our policy is driven by the vision to be recognized as the energy company that works best to foster competence and competitiveness among Nigerian indigenous contractors and suppliers, by adopting the participatory-partnership model. Chevron companies in Nigeria are proud of our partnership and contributions to the social and economic development of the country.
Chairman/Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria, and Mid-Africa Business Unit Rick Kennedy, said the company continues to demonstrate their commitment to the socio-economic development of Nigeria through promoting mutually beneficial partnerships and supporting the policies of government on Nigerian content development.
In the last 10 years, CNL has spent an estimated annual average of $1 billion on Nigerian suppliers and service providers.
“We have helped in building the capacities of several Nigerian businesses by providing contracts and procurement opportunities to Nigerians on all projects in our operations. Chevron is also helping to grow the Nigerian economy by contributing to the development of communities in the areas of our operation. We do all this, not just because it is required by law, but because it is the right thing to do.”
Kennedy further said, “Chevron is proud to be a part of Nigeria’s socio-economic development. We will continue to help build Nigerian businesses through the harnessing of its tremendous human resources and capacity; and support for Nigerian Content policy of the federal government.”
This seen in the improved participation of local contractors in the Nigerian oil and gas industry which includes: the facilitation of the first assembled-in-Nigeria Subsea Horizontal Christmas Tree and the fabrication in Nigeria of Agbami production manifolds for the Agbami Phase 3 Project by FMC Technologies Limited /Aveon Offshore Nigeria Limited; successful installation of subsea equipment like flexible flowlines, umbilicals, and jumpers by Marine Platforms Limited; sponsorship of four Nigerian engineers for subsea engineering training in France, in partnership with NCDMB and Technip Offshore Nigeria Limited; training of six young Nigerian Engineers in subsea engineering at the FMC facility, Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT) Onne, Rivers State. In addition, five Nigerian Engineering graduates sponsored by Chevron, completed subsea training at Marine Platforms Limited in Port Harcourt; and the facilitating the fabrication and assembly of two complicated Single-Point Mooring (“SPM”) buoys structures weighing ~300 tons each by Fenog Nigeria Limited (“Fenog”), an indigenous independent engineering company. The SPM buoys, are critical components of the Escravos Export System Project (“EESP”) scope, required to improve reliability of current JV offshore crude oil export facilities.“
We have learnt through decades of operating in Nigeria that our business success in providing affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy is directly tied to the progress and prosperity of the people we work with and the communities where we operate,” the company said.
