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Rivers State Communities Benefit from Agbami Parties

By Teddy Nwanunobi

Two communities in Rivers State, Ogu and Onne, have benefited a women skills acquisition centre and a town hall, respectively, from the Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, a Chevron Company and the operator of the Agbami field, together with its parties in the Agbami field.

The other parties include: Famfa Oil Limited, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited, and Prime 127 Nigeria Limited.

The women skills acquisition centre included:  a main hall, one office, one store room and toilet, seven electric sewing machines, five manual sewing machines, an electric generator, water borehole and accessories, office furniture, classroom tables, and chairs with teachers’ tables.

Onne’s town hall was furnished with chairs, as well as office furniture, plus a power generator, water supply, and a public address system.

The Director, Deepwater Production Sharing Contracts, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, Robert Hulett, who thanked the Rivers State Government for its support on the project, noted that the Agbami parties have also implemented other projects in the past in Rivers State.

“Other Social Investments by the Agbami parties in Rivers State include execution and handover of a 2-kilometer waterfront streetlight project to Ogu community in 2014; a Chest Clinic currently being executed at the General Hospital Eleme in Rivers State to benefit all the communities around the Onne Port Complex,”he said.

According to him, the Agbami parties have also donated a 1000KVA CAT generator to the University of Port Harcourt, and have instituted a specialised educational scholarship programme in support of medical and engineering manpower development in Nigeria.

About 1,904 Rivers State indigenes have benefitted from the Agbami Medical and Engineering Professional Scholarship between 2009 and 2019.

“In addition to the above projects, we have contributed to Local Community Content Development by empowering and building the capacity of some local community contractors,” he said.

Onne community council of chiefs, as well as Chief L.T. Williams-Tubonibo-Iyama, Chairman Ogu Divisional Council of Chiefs, applauded the Agbami parties for the donation.

“We commend the Agbami parties for this CSR project and are particularly happy (with) the focus of this project on infrastructure and education which areas critical for the development of a nation,” Williams sai

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