The Deputy Managing Director of the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG), Mr. Olakunle Osobu, has said that the construction work on the Train 7 project will soon be completed.
Osobu, who was speaking in Abuja in one of the strategic panel sessions at the on-going Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference (NOG25), said over 90 percent of the contractors that worked on the project are Nigerians. D
Recall that on 27th December 2019, our shareholders made the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Train 7 Project, with the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract awarded to the SCD JV Consortium, comprising affiliates of Saipem, Chiyoda, and Daewoo, in May 2020.
The project when completed will boost NLNG’s production capacity by 35%, increasing from 22 Million Tonnes Per Annum (mtpa) to 30 mtpa. This project underscores our role as a key player in the global LNG market and positions Nigeria as a top-tier supplier of LNG, leveraging its vast proven gas reserves of 202 trillion cubic feet (the 9th largest globally)
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He said: “We have successfully built 6 Tains earlier with lots of Nigerians contractors participated in the process”.
Speaking on the sub theme of the conference: “Technology as a local content imperative from adoption to domestication, the Deputy Managing Director stated: “He said: “At NLNG, we did not only use technologies but we adopted them in our operations” He emphasized that not until the nation sees adoption of technologies as a call, it would continue to struggle as a nation.
He said though the usage of technology is very simple.
“All you need to know about technology is to know how to read and write. With NLNG working with the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), it has, as of today, 70 percent of its contractors as Nigerians. Besides, NCDMB also ensures these Nigerians are trained”
On domestication of Technology, Osobu emphasized that efforts should be geared toward writing those technologies in the Nigerian local languages for easy understanding adding that no country in the world has ever developed learning technology in someone else language.
“Technology is very simple. All you need to know about technology is to know how to read and write. The Germans wrote their technologies in German likewise the Chinese, French, the English, everyone does it in their language and this is one of the particular areas where domestication comes in. There must be a policy direction where any technology coming into the country must be written in our local languages. We have Arabic, french, German keyboards why can’t we have Hausa, or Yoruba keyboard”, he stated
“As we continue to use technologies in NLNG, we will continue to promote and work with policy makers in ensuring that we domesticate all these knowledge we have gathered over the year and one doesn’t need to be a bachelor degree holder or PhD to be able to use the technology going forward that is what all us should be looking at”, he stressed
