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    ‘Snake Island fabrication yard to generate $33bn in 10 years’

    April 12, 2021
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    The DSO Meren-Sonam platform topside fabricated at Snake Island by Nigerdock.

    Lagos — The Federal Government has pledged to assist the management of the Snake Island Integrated Zone in Lagos in reviving the oil fabrication yard located in the area.

    According to a member of the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Senator Magnus Abe, the facility is projected to save the country and also help generate income of $33 billion over a 10-year period.

    He said an inter-ministerial committee headed by him has been set up to assess the facility and recommend ways to assist in reviving it.

    He said: “Sometime in 2015, Addax ran into some tax and audit issues with the Federal Government, and so they declared a force majeure on the contracts.

    “By that time, Kaztec Engineering had already spent more than $600 million – imported a lot of materials and was employing over 3,000 direct workers. But when the force majeure was declared, all those people lost their jobs.”

    The yard being built by an indigenous company, Kaztec Engineering Limited, with Addax Petroleum Development Company as its technical partner, was put on hold since 2015 after a force majeure declared by an international oil company operating in the country, je said.

    He added that the facility was projected to save the country and also help generate income of $33 billion over a 10-year period.

    He said: “What has happened here is actually a national tragedy in so many ways because not only is the economy very negatively impacted, it is quite disheartening to see that there are a lot of things here that could help this company save millions of dollars that are lying waste.

    “I want to thank the President for setting up this committee because it shows that he is in touch with the reality of what is happening in the economy and that he is doing everything possible to see that the Nigerian economy is not negatively impacted unduly by current happenings.”

    At the time of filing this report, SweetcrudeReports gathered that the Phase 1A of the project, comprising workshops, warehouse, laydown areas, erection area and 4,000 tonnes load-out quay, had been completed.

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