In the interest of clean and sustainable environmental management in Nigeria’s petroleum industry, the National Oil Spill Detection Response Agency (NOSDRA) and Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a non-governmental organisation with its headquarters in the United Kingdom, have expressed their firm commitment to building on the gains of their ongoing partnership.
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This guarantee was provided on Wednesday during a courtesy visit to the Director-General/Chief Executive of NOSDRA, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, at the Agency’s Headquarters in Abuja by SDN Executive Director Adam Heal and his team.
The DG/CE expressed gratitude to the Executive Director of SDN for congratulating him on his appointment and recalled their long-standing collaboration that began in 2013.
According to the DG/CE, this collaboration enabled the organisation to support the development of cutting-edge and novel tools to combat pollution in the petroleum industry, such as the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor, National Gas Flare Tracker, and Inchoate Methane Tracker.
Woke acknowledged that the instruments had contributed to increased accountability and transparency in the oil and gas pollution sector. The DG/CE pledged that his appointment would benefit NOSDRA and that he would not be let down in this regard.
He also stated that the Agency was unwaveringly dedicated to maintaining its collaboration with SDN to enhance environmental management in the nation’s petroleum sector.
Woke believed that the SDN prototype Methane Tracker would provide a significant contribution to the monitoring of methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. He emphasised that NOSDRA, with the backing of the NGO, was mandated to maintain a safe and clean environment in the country’s petroleum business.
As SDN celebrated its 20th year of operation in Nigeria, the DG/CE gave the NGO an assurance that NOSDRA will be there to assist and improve its work in the nation. The Executive Director of SDN revealed earlier in his speech that the company has been active in Nigeria for the previous 20 years, offering economic diversification in the oil-producing Niger Delta region as well as monitoring and policy advising services.
He said that NOSDRA had been a dependable partner of SDN for more than ten years, and as a result of these partnerships, his NGO worked with the Agency to develop two useful and cutting-edge geospatial tools: the National Gas Flare Tracker and the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor, which are currently being used for reporting and tracking oil and gas pollution, respectively.
He listed several areas in which the Agency will be assisted, such as evaluating soil and water samples as part of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP)’s Ogoni cleanup efforts.
While praising the DG/CE for his new vision for NOSDRA, which aims to propel the Agency’s growth and development to unprecedented heights, Mr. Heal expressed his anticipation for many more years of productive collaboration between the two organisations.
