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The African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber.org)
has appointed its highest-level advisory committee to serve on local content
matters and support capacity building across the continent. Local Content
Committee members are part of the Chamber’s Advisory Board and serve in their
personal capacities, representing decades of experience working for the leading
local and international players in Africa. They include:
Kola Karim, CEO, Shoreline Energy
International
Walter Peviani, Managing Director, Saipem
Contracting Nigeria Ltd
Jorg Kohnert, Managing Director, Jagal Energy
Chijioke Akwukwuma, Managing Director/CEO,
Ocean Deep Drilling ESV Nigeria Limited (ODENL)
Jude Kearney, President, Kearney Africa
Eric Williams, President, Royal Triangle
Energy Solutions
Pablo Memba, CEO, Equatorial Resources
Ogutu Okudo, Country Manager, SpringRock Group
Rémi Mouchel, Operations Director and
President of the Executive Board, IFP Training
Local content has always been at the core of
the African Energy Chamber’s mandate and priorities. Capacity building and the
procurement of local goods and services throughout the African hydrocarbons
value chain is a central pillar to building sustainability in the industry,
creating jobs and generating local value for African economies.
As African energy markets recover from
Covid-19 and the historic crash of oil prices, local content matters will
become even more important for governments and operators to support economic
recovery and cut costs. In addition, 2020 has been a turning point for the
African regional content, with increasing awareness across the continent on the
need to build regional ventures and enterprises able to offer African solutions
to African energy problems, from Senegal to Mozambique.
“We cannot continue to blame others for the
lack of progress. Local content is changing across the board and adapting to
new realities and requirements. In 2020, local content development needs to
adapt to new market dynamics and developments in the African workforce. All
stakeholders need to come around key priorities for our industry including the
integration of women, the development of new skills, especially as the African
energy industry embraces digitization, and finding way to develop a strong
African regional content,” declared NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African
Energy Chamber.
The Local Content Committee is the second
committee of the African Energy Chamber’s Advisory Board to be announced this
week. The Chamber has put together leading industry experts, executives and
public representatives to support several initiatives over the course of 2020
and 2021, such as local content development, natural gas and energy
transitions, the promotion of an enabling environment and the expansion of
exploration activities.
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