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Port Harcourt — The Nigeria LNG Limited says it remains committed to ensuring that Nigerians benefit maximally from all its operations, by going beyond compliance with Nigerian Content targets as set out in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010.
NLNG’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Philip Mshelbila, said this during a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Engr. Simbi Wabote, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Mshelbila said NLNG considered Nigerian Content a core part of its strategy in line with its corporate vision of being ‘a globally competitive LNG company helping to build a better Nigeria’.
He commended the NCDMB for the successful and historic relationship between both entities, citing the unique Service Level Agreement between NLNG and NCDMB as a classic example of the Board enabling business, as well as the Board’s support which had led to the smooth take-off of the Train 7 project.
The NLNG boss disclosed that NLNG remains committed to 100percent in-country supply of its LPG volumes, adding that within the context of the global energy transition, support of regulators like the NCDMB would be critical in ensuring access, availability and affordability of energy for domestic consumption.
He also proposed the formation of an NLNG-NCDMB Technical Working Group which would meet periodically to discuss and resolve such strategic and other operational issues.
Responding, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr Simbi Wabote, congratulated NLNG for smooth and successful leadership transition while maintaining national pride of being led by a 100percent Nigerian senior management team.
Wabote said the Board would continue to adhere to its Business-to-Business Service Level Agreement, as it remained the first in the industry and had set a standard for shortening the contracting cycle and improving compliance with the NOGICD Act.
He encouraged NLNG to plug into ongoing efforts by NCDMB to widen LPG distribution and storage across multiple zones of the country.
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