YENAGOA (Sundiata Post) – The NCDMB industrial park known as Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme (NOGaPS) at Emeyal 1 Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State will be ready for commissioning and operations in the last quarter of 2023.
Kelly Oduade, chief engineer of the consulting firm handling the construction told members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), who visited the complex on Friday that work was progressing satisfactorily to meet the deadline.
Sundiata Post recalls that the NOGaPS is a policy being piloted by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to drive the promotion of manufacturing in oil and gas industry and its linkage sectors in Nigeria.
The scheme is being built across all the nine Niger Delta states. Even as that of Odukpani in Cross River State is completed, Oduade said that at the Emeyal 1 scheme, majority of key facilities have been delivered while others would be set before the end of the year.
According to him, the massive industrial hub is coming with 24/7 uninterrupted power supply, Ashpalt-paved internal road network, water treatment plant, effluent water treatment plant, administrative building block, mini-park estate of three blocks of flats, capacity building (training centre) block, drainage system, security gatehouse, hostel block and fire station amongst others.
Corroborating the consultant’s presentations, the General Manager of Corporate Communications at the NCDMB, Ginah O. Ginah noted that apart from the listed infrastructure coming with the park, there are provisions and land spaces for willing investors to develop customized facilities that will add value to their activities at the park.
According to him, the park is willing to allocate plots for developments like filling stations, manufacturing shop floor/warehouses, oil and gas processing, manufacturing shops and others with different number of plot sizes as may be demanded by investors.
The NOGaPS Emeyal 1 scheme is situated along Otuoke-Emeyal 1 Road in Ogbia, Bayelsa State. It is accessible from Imiringi, Opolo and newly dualised (SUKUK bond funded) Yenegwe-Kolo to Otuoke to Bayelsa Palm Road.
