Nigeria
Population (World Bank): 211,400,704 (2021)
Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 0.9% (2021)
Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 1,650 Mb/d (2021)
Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 161
2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Oil and Gas Sector (NRGI): 53/100
EITI Status: Satisfactory Progress
Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)
Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:
Local Content Relevant News:
June 2024 – Egina: A flagship offshore project driving local development and expertise
June 2024 – NCDMB shares local content expertise with Uganda Energy officials
May 2024 – NCDMB pledges support for firms with local capacities in oil industry
May 2024 – Halliburton boosts local content in Africa, seeks interest in oil and gas ventures
April 2024 – Bola Tinubu unlocks US $10bn investment in oil and gas
March 2024 – Tinubu signs Executive Orders on oil and gas reforms
February 2024 – Oil giants depart from Nigeria’s onshore assets
February 2024 – Shell-operated Bonga Field sees steady progress driven by mainly local crew
February 2024 – Senate, NCDMB to collaborate on local content implementation
January 2024 – Alfred Temile 10 Gas facility reinforces local content law, says minister
December 2023 – Local content: Nigeria rejects 328 expatriate requests from oil firms in 12 months
December 2023 – Reps seek improvement of local content in oil and gas production
December 2023 – NCDMB completes 83% of the Nigerian Content Roadmap
November 2023 – Assets Devt: Shell pulls out of IOCs’ Accord with NCDMB, NNPC, demands more waivers
October 2023 – African Countries import 90% of equipment in oil-gas sector – NCDMB Executive Secretary
October 2023 – Reps to probe sterling oil over illegal activities, racketeering and others
September 2023 – Lawmaker seeks replication of local content in oil sector
August 2023 – NCDMB, BOI sign amendment of MoU on $50m NOGaPS manufacturing fund
August 2023 – Akwa Ibom communities protest violation of local content law
August 2023 – Sustain local content growth, NCDMB charges Aradel
July 2023 – MicCom to partner OGTAN towards encouraging local content development initiatives
July 2023 – NCDMB: Nigeria lost $380m to capital flight before enactment of local content act
July 2023 - NCDMB: Local content participation in oil and gas industry rose 107% in five years
July 2023 – NCDMB set to issue policy directives on local manufacturing of oil and gas equipment
June 2023 – NCDMB, NLNG to launch local content opportunities on E-Marketplace
June 2023 – Group tasks NNPC, TotalEnergies over alleged deal with US company convicted of bribery
June 2023 – BOI, NCDMB signs MoU to build In-country capacity for manufacturing of oil and gas components
June 2023 – Local Content: Jamoh canvasses review of oil and gas freight terms
June 2023 – Ikpea: How incoming government can take Nigeria’s oil industry to next level
June 2023 – PETAN: Current mega projects in oil industry raise doubts about meeting local content targets
May 2023 – Indigenous firms owe capacity growth to NCDMB – Kenyon Boss
May 2023 – Nigeria: Financing for solar energy programme gathers pace
May 2023 – Nigerian economy gets a boost as local content industrial park takes off with $50m grant
April 2023 – Oil companies manipulating Nigerian Content Law - NUPENG
April 2023 – Local content: PTI collaborates with NLNG, trains 48 technicians
April 2023 – FG loses N44bn as insurers breach local content law
April 2023 – Shell denies breach of Nigerian content law at its EA fields in Bayelsa
April 2023 – Ijaw youths vow to cripple SPDC operations over alleged neglect
April 2023 – Local content soars to 54% in oil and gas sector – FG
March 2023 – Nigeria: NCDMB hosts workshop for contractors, youth in Ondo State
February 2023 – Establishing a highly competitive domestic hydrocarbons market in Nigeria
February 2023 – Nigeria and Senegal sign local content deal
December 2022 – Local content policy in oil sector, a success story
December 2022 – NCDMB Boss Commissions Oil And Gas Institute In Uyo
December 2022 – Shell gets recognition for local content operation
September 2022 – Mudiame Institute Trains 40 Students For Shell To Deepen Local Content
August 2022 – Local Content Bill: NCDMB Charges National Assembly On Peculiarities Of Sectors
July 2022 – Local content: New regulations to strengthen oil, gas industry
June 2022 – African Refinery awards contract, raises hope on fuel supply
April 2022 – NCDMB says Nigerian content in oil and gas sector grows to 42%
March 2022 – Nigeria Seals Oil, Gas Local Content Development Deal With Senegal
December 2021 – We Have Achieved Over 70% Local Content Target-NCDMB
December 2021 – Saipem Faces Contract Violation Law in Nigeria
October 2021 – How to deepen local content implementation
April 2021 – Labour Threatens to Shut Ports Over Disregard for Local Content by IOCs
January 2021 – Okowa Performs Groundbreaking for N15bn Tower Fabrication Firm at Issele-Uku
December 2020 – KEN ETETE Local Content Act Has Helped Oil Servicing Industry in Capacity Building
October 2020 – National Assembly Initiates New Bills for Local Content in Energy Sector
October 2020 – NCDMB and NITDA to Set Up Committee to Foster Development of Local Content
August 2020 – Buhari Commissions 17-Storey Nigerian Content Development Building in Yenagoa
May 2020 – Nigeria Warns Oil and Gas Companies Against Abusing Expatriate Quota
March 2020 – Nigerian Local Content Update
February 2019 – Local Content Breach: PENGASSAN Set To Tackle ExxonMobil
August 2018 – Nigeria’s Local Content Adoption in Oil & Gas Soars to 28 per Cent in Seven Years
May 2018 – Jonathan: Local Content Has Hit 32% in Oil, Gas Industry
March 2018 – Egina Probe: Senate Summons BP Over $3.3bn Oil Deal
December 2017 – PETAN Honours Shell For Nigerian Content Development
November 2017 – NCDMB Releases N61.18bn Local Content Fund to BoI
Analysis and Case Studies:
Ovadia (2024) – State-led development in Angola and Nigeria
Zakari et al. (2022) – An Assessment of Local Content Policy on National Development in Nigeria
Jacob et al. (2022) – Simplified Predictive Models on Sustainable Local Content Policy, and Human Capacity Developments, in Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Industry
Nwankwo and Iyeke (2022) – Analysing the impact of oil and gas local content laws on engineering development and the GDP of Nigeria (Paywall)
Ekeinde et al. (2022) – Economic Advantages of Emerging Indigenous Participation in Exploration and Production Operations in the Oil & Gas Industry (Paywall)
Nwaguru and Sylva (2022) – Local Content Strategy Implementation in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Publish What You Pay and Policy Alert (2021) – What’s in It for Us? An Action-Research Case Study of Nigeria’s Extractive Industries
Oni (2021) – Addressing the Socio-Economic Concerns of the Niger Delta Host Communities Through Local Content Policy; the Impact of Nigerias Local Participation Policy on Her Investment Climate (Paywall)
Dosunmu and Enitan (2019) – Indigenous Participation in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry in Light of Local Content Legislation
Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development (2018) – Local Content Guidance Case Study Nigeria: Downstream Linkages
UNCTAD (2017) – Is Local Content a Catalyst for Development- The Case of Oil in Nigeria
UNCTAD (2017) – Commodities and Development Report
McCulloch et al. (2017) – Local Content Policies and Backward Integration in Nigeria
Shepherd and Honwana Welch (2017) – Developing Businesses of Scale in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Ezeain and Nwuke (2017) – Local Content and the Marginal Fields Programme: Challenges for Indigenous Participation in the Nigerian Oil Industry. Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (Paywall)
Ajide et al. (2017) – Sustainability, corporate community engagement and enterprise development: lessons from a case study in Emu-Ebendo Niger-Delta, Nigeria
Adedeji et al. (2016) – The Role of Local Content Policy in Local Value Creation in Nigeria's Oil Industry. A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (Paywall)
De Vita et al. (2016) – Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Local Content Development: A Stakeholder Analysis (Paywall)
Unam (2015) – Local Content Policy, Human Capital Development and Sustainable Business Performance in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry (Paywall)
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2014) – Local Content: Nigeria - Petroleum
Ngoasong (2014) – How international oil and gas companies respond to local content policies in petroleum-producing developing countries: A narrative enquiry (Paywall)
Ovadia (2014) – Local content and natural resource governance: The cases of Angola and Nigeria (Paywall)
Jegede et al. (2013) – Knowledge Sharing and Innovation as it Affects the Local Content in the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria (Paywall)
Nwaokoro (2011) – Signed, Sealed but Will it deliver? Nigeria’s Local Content Bill and Cross-Sectoral Growth (Paywall)
Oyejide and Adewuyi (2011) – Enhancing linkages of oil and gas industry in the Nigerian economy
Heum et al. (2003) – Enhancement of local content in the upstream oil and gas industry in Nigeria: a comprehensive and viable policy approach
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