In a bid to promote local content development and technology transfer in the Nigerian oil and gas sector, an indigenous company, Brain Box Matrix Services Limited, has introduced a computer based multimedia tutorial on specialised engineering design software brand, called “matrix professor”.

The brand, according to the Managing Director of the company, Samuel Kwelle, is an innovation of young engineering graduates of Rivers State.

Speaking at the formal introduction of the brand in Port Harcourt at the weekend, Kwelle said, “the vision is to provide excellent opportunity for technology transfer to Nigerians, through innovative, creative and high quality services especially for capacity training for local content development in our oil and gas industry”.

He said the engineering design concept was in line with the Nigerian indigenisation policy and to discourage consumption of foreign packages.

He added that the product was also intended to make engineering students and graduates to be highly skilled and employable in the oil and gas industry. He solicited for partnership with educational institutions for full integration of the new Conrad into engineering technology curriculum.

In his remarks, the chairman of the event Professor, Barineme Fakae commended the group for their innovation, and called on youths in the Niger Delta to emulate their vision.

Professor Fakae, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, said the venture by alumnus of the state University of Science and Technology had proved that they are worthy ambassadors of the school and Rivers State in general.

He pledged the partnership of the university to the body, and assured that the university would not derail from it objective of providing solution to the challenges of the society through the training of needed manpower.

Taneh Beemene