In furtherance of its commitment to the Nigerian Content Policy, the Nigerian Agip Exploration Company  (NAE) and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) collaborated recently to organize a vendor awareness and sensitization programme in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The programme was organized with the key objective of constructively engaging vendors, entrepreneurs, operators and Nigerians […]

The implementation of the Nigerian Content Act has attracted a new crop of Nigerian investors who are no longer satisfied playing second fiddle roles to expatriates, but rather determined to commit huge resources in owning hi-tech assets and facilities to be used in executing projects in the oil and gas industry, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have begun working with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Oando Group, Sahara Energy and other key players in the gas industry to promote local manufacture of gas cylinders. Rising from a meeting called by the NCDMB at its headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State recently, stakeholders in […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has inaugurated 10 sectorial committees of the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum (NCCF), with a charge to them to generate ideas for the development of Nigerian Content in the oil and gas industry. Set up by Section 57 of the Nigerian Content Act, NCCF sectorial committees include Fabrication; […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has concluded the training of its staff who will spearhead the design and operation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Parks Scheme (NOGAPS). The training was held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State across nine weeks and the 45 participants also embarked on field trips to Onne Oil and Gas Free […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)  has invited the Managing Director of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), Mr. Massimo Insulla to a meeting in relation to the ongoing business dispute between it and Arco Petroleum Engineering Company Limited over the maintenance of Obob/Ebocha/Kwale Gas plants. The invitation followed NCDMB’s  receipt of a formal […]

As part of its mandate for developing capacity in the oil and gas industry, the management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board recently visited some oil and gas facilities in Warri, Delta State The facilities visited included Gramen Petroserve Yard, Warri and Primesource Limited. Speaking while inspecting Gramen Petroserve Yard, the Executive Secretary […]