Shell, Partners Donate Legacy Project To UNIBEN

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and its Joint Venture (JV) partners, have  donated a multi-million Naira legacy building to the University of Benin’s Centre of Excellence in Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering.
The Tide’s source reports that the JV partners include the NNPCL, TotalEnergies and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC).
Inaugurating the well-furnished edifice, the Managing Director of the SPDC, Mr Osagie Okunbor, said the project would fill identified gaps between classroom training of young graduates at the postgraduate level and the actual industrial practice.
This initiative, Okunbor said, would help to make the graduates industry-ready for the upstream oil and gas business.
The Managing Director, who is an alumnus of the institution, said education was key to development due to its roles in the long-term productivity and growth of any nation.
According to him, Shell companies in Nigeria have a long history of supporting the education of the country’s young population through various initiatives.
These initiatives, he said, sought to invest in initiatives that benefitted the energy sector and improve the socio-economic well-being of the country.