𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 (𝑵𝑪𝑫𝑴𝑩), 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒓. 𝑺𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒊 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒚𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒆 has 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝑮 𝑽𝑶𝑾𝑮𝑨𝑺 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 200-𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆-𝒐𝒇-𝒕𝒉𝒆-𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒚’𝒔 𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕, 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆.

Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary lauded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm for its remarkable local content performance, technological capability and innovation. He noted that the facilities had provided the company with technological capability to fabricate and load out a variety of steel structures and equipment.

The furnace, the largest in the country, has as volume 600 cubic metres and a working temperature of 1,150 degrees Celsius, which is capable of heating and cooling various materials, ensuring optimal strength, durability and performance.

 Wabote also praised MG Vowgas for acquiring a dishhead forming machine that can press up to 400mm thick steel with ASME U-stamp, thereby filling a big gap in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. Noting the remarkable transformation of the company’s fabrication yard in Woji, Port Harcourt, this has six workshops now as against three in 2018 within its 118,000 square metres physical space.

“MG VOWGAS is a superb example of what a Nigerian oil and gas service company can grow into, over a period of time in demonstration of the resilience of Nigerian enterprise.” the NCDMB boss hinted.

“For over two decades, they have successfully delivered a range of challenging projects ranging from facility revamping, molecular sieve beads change out, Turn Around Maintenance (TAM), EPCIC [Engineering, Procurement, construction, Installation, and commissioning] of offshore structures, pipeline construction, in-plant piping, fabrication of process packages, warehousing, and maritime services for notable clients in the oil and gas sector

The excellent safety record of the company, which stands at 2-million manhours without lost time incident (LTI), also elicited praise from the NCDMB boss. He charged the Management to “to keep up the trajectory to the next milestone of 3 million LTI-free man-hours,” He added.

On the significance of the success story of MG VOWGAS for the country’s local content drive, Engr. Wabote said the attainments of the company has injected corporate confidence on indigenous companies on major job executions thereby creating employment  opportunities to teeming unemployed youth.

“These projects have given us the confidence that we can add value locally, create employment opportunities, and build the skill sets necessary to grow our economy. Local content would boost local production of goods and services, minimize importation, and shore up the value of the nair,” Engr. Wabote Emphasized

He challenged the company to take its services to other African countries. He hinted that the Board’s interaction with sister African countries such as Namibia, Uganda, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea and others showed their readiness to tap from the experience of Nigeria in the implementation of local content practice as well as their eagerness to collaborate with Nigerian businesses.

He equally lauded international oil and gas companies and the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Ltd for supporting local business as well as the implementation of Nigerian Content so far.