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Mrs Ogbue canvasses hybrid funding support for upstream upstarts
* AFREC charges African players to align with ESG Sopuruchi Onwuka Pioneer President of Women in Energy Network (WIEN), Mrs Fumni Ogbue, has called for mobilization of dormant private funds in the country to finance upstream petroleum industry projects. She…
Kachikwu canvasses $1bn pan-industry NCI Fund
Recommends timeline for field development projects Sopuruchi Onwuka Former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Prof. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has canvassed that the $450 million Nigerian Content Intervention Fund (NCI Fund) be increased to $1.0 billion, to cover the funding…
Thirty-nine youths begin Chevron-Intels NC-HCD programme
Capacity building for Nigeria’s maritime sector received a boost on Friday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where 39 young graduates underwent preliminary processes for cadetship under a Nigerian Content-Human Capacity Development (NC-HCD) programme of Chevron Nigeria Limited and Intels Nigeria…
Zigma Energy Chief canvasses for holistic policy ecosystem for petroleum industry
Sopuruchi Onwuka Chief Executive Officer of Zigma Energy Limited, Mrs Funmi Ogbue, has called for integrated growth agenda, industrial ecosystem and policy implementation strategies that propel transformation in the petroleum industry. She specifically canvassed for development of industrialized operating base…
NCDMB, Coppercrux, bring CNG businesss opportunities to South-South youths
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has conducted a five-day Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) opportunity Awareness and Capacity Building Workshop for youths in the South-South region of the country. The training which was delivered in collaboration with Coppercrux…
PETAN commends Shell on local content support
* Honours Adams with Excellence Award Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s indigenous petroleum industry services group, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), has commended Shell for supporting Nigerian content development. The Nigerian Content policy which is supported by the Nigerian Oil and…
Namibia 2025: NCDMB’s technocrats lay local content strategies for Africa
Sopuruchi Onwuka The finest crop of technocrats from the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) laid veritable strategies that would propel evolution of pan-African local content policy in the petroleum industry. Also accompanying the team from the NCDMB to…
NCDMB asks African oil service providers to play niches
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) urged oil-producing countries to develop their competencies to the right specifications with which to specialise in different manufacturing and service niches in providing services for the petroleum industry. Executive Secretary,…
NCDMB leads push for homegrown talents
Celebrates HCD collaboration with Chevron. Geoscape Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to local capacity development and sustainable talent growth through strategic collaborations with private sector players. The agency which extracts broader…
UNIPORT Convocation: Ogbe cheers as NCDMB chiefs cart Ph.Ds
Sopuruchi Onwuka Two senior officials of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Saturday bagged Doctorate degrees at the 35th Combined Convocation of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The Oracle reports that industry colleagues, friends, and…
