Mohammed Shosanya
The TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited,has advised indigenous oil and gas companies to embrace research and development to enable them cope with the emerging trends in the global business.
Deputy General Manager, Nigeria Content, Cyprian Ojum disclosed this on Monday at the ongoing
Nigerian Oil and Gas Conference (NOG) in Abuja
He said: “Now if Nigerian indigenous companies don’t wake up, they will also be left in the midst of things because they will lack knowledge of where the oil and gas industry is going to which is deep offshore. So, we are catching up with offshore and when it goes to deep offshore we are behind the time.
“We can’t do much without knowledge. So Nigerians indigenous companies that are here today, you need to get knowledge about offshore business because it’s not the same the same story with land and swamp. When you are in deep offshore, the technology is different from land exploration. You are talking about seismic data gathering and processing, you are talking about FPSO. And field development is different. You are talking about drilling rig on water which is quite a lot.
“Then the development, we are talking about subsea systems, you will be talking about riders; you will be talking about flow lines and all the pipelines that run underwater. We need to scale up our game in this regards and we can’t do it without proper research and development”.
“Accelerated R&D today is the way to go for us to go in order to ensure the future of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in terms of Nigerian content. If you don’t go that way then you will go back to 2010.”
He noted that it awards it jogs based on knowledge and competence saying that at various points several of its projects in the country have been handled Nigerian.
Speaking,Amesh Amarmani, Director, Pacegate Energy $ Resource Limited (PEARL), TotalEnergies by what he has done is giving local companies the opportunity to step up and be active players in the industry.
Nigerian indigenous companies,he said,need to take advantage of the opportunities that is provided by the IOC to improve capacity.
He emphasized the need for regulatory bodies to step up their supervision roles so that Nigerian indigenous oil and gas companies can be competitive.
