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Oando Acquires Oil Block In Angola

Oando Plc  Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  Oando Plc  says it has completed and won the bid for the operatorship of oil block KON 13 in Angola. The firm which recently acquired Eni of Italy’s oil assets in Nigeria, said that the award of the oil block located in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin followed a competitive bidding process by the country’s oil and gas sector regulator. It further said hat the asset in which it owns 45 per cent participating interest, has estimated prospective resources of 770 to 1,100 million barrels of oil. Oando is handling its operations relating to the asset through its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER). “Oando Plc,  Africa’s leading indigenous energy solutions provider listed on both the Nigerian Exchange Limited and Johannesburg Stock Exchange is pleased to announce that its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER), has been awarded operatorship of Block KON 13 in Angola’s Onshore Kwanza Basin, following a...
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NERC, NiNAS Collaborate To Improve Meter Testing Laboratories In Nigeria


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By Favour & Akinola Ajibade


 Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC and the Nigeria National Accreditation System (NiNAS) have partnered together to  improve the standards of meter testing laboratories in the country. 

The  two institutions have organised training on competence requirements testing and calibration laboratories – ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in order to achieve this goal.

The three-day training held at the NERC headquarters in Abuja,  had the theme: Understanding the application of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in testing laboratories in electricity generation and distribution value chain.

The Commissioner of Engineering, Performance and Monitoring, NERC, Engr. Chidi Ike said in his welcome address  that the  Commission was raising the bar on the standards of meter testing laboratories.

Engr. Ike said: “We have all the instruments that have empowered us to do what we should do to ensure that the laboratories used in testing meters are of the right standards and specifications. But we haven’t been doing it, we want to start doing it.

“So, we have gathered here people that are more concerned about this activity; people that will gain more from this interaction with NiNAS for these three days.”

Similarly, the Director General of NiNAS, Mr Celestine Okanya, said the collaboration would further improve the practice of accreditation and laboratory standards monitoring for the Commission.

He said: “The workshop we are doing today for me, apart from just discussing ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in testing laboratories in electricity generation and distribution value chain, is also an opportunity to look at the core perspectives which we know that NERC can benefit from our accreditation services to help you to work better.”

The training allowed the NERC participants to share knowledge with the team from NiNAS about laboratory testing and other engineering standards in the power sector value chain.

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