Top officials of the Ugandan National Oil Company (UNOC) have visited the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to learn from its experience in local content development.
The Ugandan delegation, which is currently on a working visit to the NCDMB, said their country stands to gain substantially from Nigeria’s successes in the local content practice, as it prepares to start its first oil output in 2025 having launched its drilling of development and production wells at the Kingfisher Development Area in the country’s western region on January 24, 2023.
Welcoming the four-member UNOC delegation during a meeting at the Nigerian Content Tower in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, the Director, Monitoring and Evaluation in NCDMB, Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu, said the visit would open up new vistas for mutually beneficial collaboration in oil and gas operations between Nigeria and Uganda.
Citing statistics indicative of the resource base of African countries in hydrocarbons, he noted that “the picture looks very good and what we need to do is to work together on how to foster structured partnership.”
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According to him, African oil-producing countries cannot achieve enough when they operate in solo, adding that there is a need to approach local content with a pan-African orientation.
Responding, the National Content Specialist of UNOC, Mrs Jessica Kyeyune, thanked the NCDMB management for the warm reception and hospitality and the wide scope of engagements planned for her team to facilitate adequate exposure to critical aspects of local content implementation and enforcement.
She said her country is a new entrant into oil and gas operations and that, it needed to tap from the knowledge of Nigeria’s industry regulator on local content to guide them in the management of the industry back home.
She revealed that there are many projects in the oil and gas sector in Uganda with opportunities and that strategic partnerships were imperative.
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