Brawal Tasks FG On Infrastructure Upgrade

Brawal Oil Services Limited, an indigenous oil and gas company in Nigeria, has called on the Federal Government to be more proactive in providing the enabling environment, especially infrastructures’ upgrade, improved security, and other basic incentives needed to stabilize the nation’s oil and gas industry.

Legal/Commercial Manager of the company, Dr Christopher Odili, who made the appeal during an interview in Port Harcourt, recently, said Nigeria has enormous potential to turn around the fortunes of the country, adding that the nation’s natural endowments in the oil and gas sector would best be exploited for optimal benefit of all Nigerians, if active indigenous participation is engendered.

The legal manager, however, regretted that projections for the future in this direction have painted a leak picture, noting that this has, to a very large extent, affected the development of indigenous capacity and capability in the industry.

He charged Nigerians to take good advantage of the opportunities that exist in the oil and gas industry to position themselves for the future, stating that the hydrocarbon deposits in Nigeria would not last for ever in this attractive quantity.

Drawing from the last Port Harcourt International Oil and Gas Conference, the commercial manager, expressed optimism that since lawmakers were beginning to thinker on an appropriate legislation that would make indigenous participation in the oil and gas industry practically feasible, a glimmer of hope may be beckoning.

Odili charged Nigerians to be committed to efforts to take full control of the critical means of production in the country, and not allow foreigners to dominate the strategic oil and gas industry, so as to leverage of its fluid and huge contributions to national economic development to position themselves for the nation’s greatness.

The Tide recalls that since Brawal signed a concessioning deal with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) some years back, the company has been playing a pivotal role in oil and gas-related operations, and technical services, while striving to bridge the yawning gap that had tended to hinder genuine progress in wresting the industry from the stranglehold of the big players.

Beemene Taneh