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Talent emigration imposes serious operational constraints amid rising investment — PETAN
Nigeria’s oil and gas industry does not have a talent problem but a fractured talent pipeline, with critical mid-career professionals increasingly leaving for international markets just as they attain peak value to domestic operators. Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Association…
Nigeria’s oil industry talent export is economic growth strategy — Ekpo
Nigeria must treat the export of its oil and gas professionals as a deliberate economic strategy rather than a loss of scarce technical manpower. According to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigeria’s ambition…
ITF, academia want Nigerian skills retained for domestic roles
Nigeria must rethink its Human Capacity Development strategy and prepare its skilled workforce for increasing domestic roles as the country struggles to retain the technical manpower required to deepen Nigerian Content in the petroleum industry. Director-General of the Industrial Training…
Nigerian Content policy: Operators demand business value
Operators in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry have called for a fundamental shift in the way Human Capacity Development (HCD) is approached under the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) framework, arguing that workforce development must be tied…
Nigeria becoming global oil, gas investment hub — Lokpobiri
Nigeria is fast emerging as a global investment hub for the oil and gas industry, driven by incentive-based reforms that have strengthened the country’s competitiveness for international capital. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, who made…
Geoplex Drillteq bags OGTAN’s 2026 indigenous service company award
Geoplex Drillteq Limited, a leading indigenous oilfield services company, has won the 2026 Indigenous Service Company Award presented by the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN). The award was presented during an OGTAN event held at the Petroleum…
Nigeria lost $194bn upstream investments in nine years — NUPRC
Nigeria lost more than 90 per cent of its annual upstream petroleum investment over the nine-year period between 2014 and 2023, with capital inflow into the sector collapsing from about $24 billion in 2014 to approximately $2 billion in 2023….
FG moves to save Nigerian Content from certificate culture
Federal government has raised concerns over token compliance, weak training outcomes and abuses in Human Capacity Development programmes, warning that Nigeria cannot achieve the objectives of its Nigerian Content policy if training expenditure does not translate into genuine competence. Nigerian…
NCDMB: Tinubu’s Executive Orders rekindle investment, expose Nigeria’s skills gap
The Federal Government’s renewed policy drive, particularly the executive orders issued by President Bola Tinubu, is beginning to restore investor confidence in Nigeria’s petroleum industry, with multinational operators once again advancing fresh investment decisions after years of subdued activity, the…
Nigerian petroleum industry future depends on people __ OGTAN
The Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) has declared that sustainability of the Nigerian petroleum industry goes beyond abundance of resources to depend on availability of talents for its exploitation. The trainers’ group which is hosting its novel…
