Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company, Dr. Philip Mshelbila, stated this recently, while leading a delegation on a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Wabote, at the regulator’s head office in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Mshelbila stated that NLNG Ltd 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 lauded the NCDMB for the successful and historic relationship between the regulator and the company, which emphasised joint value creation, citing the unique Service Level Agreement (SLA) between NLNG and NCDMB as a classic example of the Board enabling business. He also expressed appreciation to the Board for the collaboration, which had led to the smooth take-off of the Train 7 project, which recently recorded seven million safe man-hours without a Lost-Time Injury incident.
Mshelbila stated that NLNG Ltd remained committed to 100% in-country supply of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) volumes and stressed 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 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, Wabote congratulated NLNG for smooth and successful leadership transition while maintaining national pride of being le,d by a 100% Nigerian senior management team.
He assured that the Board would continue to work with NLNG to deliver on its Nigerian Content commitments in its Train 7 Project to positively impact local manufacturing capacity and employment levels in the country.
The ES urged the company to begin preparations for Train 8 even as he endorsed an exchange programme of staff between both organizations to deepen knowledge of each other’s inner workings for better partnership and business efficiency.