ACCOMPLISH MAGAZINE AUGUST 2023

More documents

Recommendations

Info

INTERVIEW As the owner of an oil service company, what specific services does your company provide and how do you ensure that you stay competitive in such a dynamic industry? We provide assets and information management solutions, local content consultancy, and due diligence. We outsource Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths talent to deploy our technologies. We’re also very much involved in training and human capital development. For me as an individual, my passion is working with girls in STEM and women in engineering, energy and entrepreneurship because we have diversity issues, and it’s not easy to find females in male-dominated sectors. So, because I’m a female engineer in a male-dominated sector, I’m committed to working with women - to ensure they play in this space. I work with the Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria app. I’m a Co-founder of the Women in Energy Network and very much involved. We connect, work and focus on women groups to ensure that our girls are encouraged to excel in male-dominated sectors. We invest heavily in training and developing our staff as we train and develop the professionals of our client companies. We’re members of various associations, institutions and societies, and we collaborate, cooperate and coordinate resources with our partners to ensure that we are competitive in delivering the products and services that we offer the industry. As we all know, the oil industry faces criticism for its environmental impact, especially in Nigeria. How does your company approach sustainability and environmental responsibility in its operations? For me, it depends on where you play. As I mentioned, there are upstream, midstream and downstream. Because we provide engineering technology and information management solutions, we’re not very much involved in environmental pollution activities. There are 17 sustainable development “ The second thing is ensuring you have the right support system so you don’t joke with your family and siblings. goals, 16 + 1, which are partnerships and collaborations. Our own sustainability strategy is tied to SDG 4, 5 and 8 - which are education, gender diversity and improving industry applications and solutions. What we do, normally, is to ensure that we are involved in climate change as well. We also get involved in ensuring that some of our clients and partners deploy their solutions appropriately. I would say our sustainability strategy is tied to innovation and industry, climate change, education, quality, education and gender diversity. We’re also involved in implementing solutions in the industry. We’re not very involved in oil spills and environmental degradation but one of our sustainability strategies is ensuring (that) we do not pollute the environment. We minimize the use of these plastics and disposables. We try to pivot into using solar and renewables in our operations because, at the moment, we run industrialization. diesel generators. (Due to) the economic situation at the moment, we’re just rethinking our sustainability strategy and we are focused on SDG 4-5 and 8 as well as climate change, renewable energy and Can you discuss some of the major projects or initiatives your company has undertaken in the oil sector and their impact on the industry and local communities? Like I stated earlier, the Global Services brand is known for identifying, developing and engaging talent. Apart from developing the engineers in NNPC for the Chevron Escravos gas project, we were known for domiciling, domesticating and democratizing engineering technology in the oil and gas sector. We are also known for technology transfer. We ensured the technology was transferred to Nigeria during the NNPC Bechtel joint venture and ERA between 2006 and 2020. We are identified, developed and engaged by 100,000 STEM talents through our Vision 2020 Career Counselling Industry 36 Accomplish Magazine
Awareness and Youth Empowerment Initiative. Following that, we worked with Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub between 2020 and 2022 to expose over 15,000 Africans, using technology for job demands. We’ve also trained 25 cloud practitioners with Amazon Web Services. We’ve empowered over 200 women in leadership with the US Aid Power Africa, energy sector, women’s leadership, and Women’s Leadership Initiative that’s ongoing. We’re also working with GIZ GOPA to empower entrepreneurs to take their ideas to bankable business plans. We provide single-digit loans with them in collaboration with the Bank of Industry. We’re very committed to social impact initiatives and corporate social responsibilities. As we partner with various bodies, associations, institutions, societies and organizations to empower Nigerians, we’re very involved in education, enlightenment, empowerment, engagement and entrepreneurship - to build capability and competence so that more Nigerians and more Nigerian companies can compete favourably in Nigeria, regionally and internationally. The oil sector is known for its volatility and price fluctuations. How do you navigate these challenges and ensure the stability and growth of your company? Well, this has been a major challenge in the oil sector; when there’s a price reduction, all our clients negotiate our contracts downwards. But, when price increases, they don’t increase our contract value. So, what we have had to do is diversify. We provide services, whether they’re social impact services or CSR services; we provide services in other sectors - energy, power, infrastructure, manufac turing and mining. Secondly, we’ve tried to de-risk our naira exposure and working tirelessly to collaborate with international partners to provide services outside Nigeria so that we’re able to look at our basket of products and services to make sure that we are generating revenue from different products and services or different markets or different sectors. So, we have monthly strategy meetings to ensure that we’re not affected - to de-risk our portfolio of activities so that we’re not in Accomplish Magazine 37
Page 1 and 2: CCOMPLISH M A G A Z I N E AUGUST 20
Page 3 and 4: 32 42 44 INTERVIEW GRAND DESIGN ART
Page 5 and 6: Top African CEOs support the AfCFTA
Page 7 and 8: ENTREPRENEUR South African’s Joha
Page 9 and 10: A Visionary Leader Making Waves in
Page 11 and 12: her own right. Kay holds the positi
Page 13 and 14: undergraduate and graduate studies.
Page 15 and 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shm
Page 17 and 18: Aliko Dangote, Jim Ovia and Femi Ot
Page 19 and 20: By Adebayo afolabi Dr. Ebenezer Ony
Page 21 and 22: FEATURE & ANALYSIS AGBADO (CORN) PR
Page 23 and 24: Misinterpretation and Clarification
Page 25 and 26: 3 did you know that your brain is m
Page 27 and 28: S ARE P OF MING Science” and “S
Page 29 and 30: etween N590 and N600 and you can be
Page 31 and 32: egan with pointing out how most of
Page 33 and 34: ERS: By Tolulope Akinruli Today, Mr
Page 35: “ My first advice is to know who
Page 39 and 40: I always tell people that the most
Page 41 and 42: done the right thing. I hope we wil
Page 43 and 44: GRAND DESIGN strong benefits, such
Page 45 and 46: ARTS & THE MASTERS work of art. It
Page 47 and 48: PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA cultural and
Page 49 and 50: with the necessary oxygen and nutri
Page 51 and 52: Incorporating Garlic into Your Diet
Page 53 and 54: Joel N. Logbo ` AUTHOR BIO Dr. Joel
Page 55 and 56: headed Although the 2008 Essencia h
Page 57 and 58: RECIPE • 1 cup blended onions (ab
Page 59 and 60: Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls Erin-Ijesha
Page 61 and 62: Lekki Conservation Centre If you’
Page 63 and 64: CORPORATE SUITE significant role in
Page 65 and 66: CORPORATE SUITE Zenith Bank Plc has
Page 67 and 68: IN DESPAIR LAST WORD We shall enjoy

ACCOMPLISH MAGAZINE AUGUST 2023

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?