The Mr Ranti Omole, Chief Executive Officer, Radial Circle Ltd., has highlighted the need for oil companies to collaborate with members of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) on domestication of jobs in-country.
Omole disclosed in an interview with TBI Africa team at the just concluded Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas that PETAN members are collaborating together to enhanced effective domestication of bigger projects in Nigeria.
According to him, “The issue of not collaborating together, I will say it is a typical Nigerian mentality that cuts across. We (Nigerians) always believes we want to own everything. We want to do everything alone.
“We don’t trust each other and I mean that is generally Nigerian mentality. But based on the mandate given to us, we have been discussing within PETAN, amongst ourselves on how best we can collaborate, the better for us and the industry.
“Because that means we can take bigger projects, domesticate more works in Nigeria. So, I am sure in the next 12 months, it would be a different ball game entirely.
“The message is clear, we have discussed within ourselves and already, certain PETAN members are putting frameworks together on different platforms on how to collaborate and then that way we can actually start doing bigger projects.
Omole said: “ Not only that, it will also be a trailblazer to other parts of the Nigerian business community that we should not just focus on ourselves alone. The bigger you share your resources, your capabilities, your network, it becomes easier.
“ If companies from different countries can come together and tried to maximize their areas of core competencies to be able to do jobs. We have seen lots of examples.
“I can also remember that Arab contractors that we see today were also formed when their former president gave them a mandate that civil engineers must come together and they came together to build a dam in Egypt and today the Arab contractors we see came from that concept.
“Now they are all over Africa even in Middle East. Hopefully, when we are sighting proven cases, more people will see that we need to collaborate, we need to partner together we need to harmonize our resources and assets so that we can do things better,’’ he added.
Omole who is also the Publicity Secretary of PETAN said that many members are operating beyond the shore of Nigeria in providing qualitative services jobs oil and gas.
“PETAN companies are already operating outside Nigeria. We are in Equatorial Guinea, Ghana Angola Middle East and India. That’s is very easy because we get a lot of experiences and expertise to sell in those markets.
“For example, Radial Circle has been in Ghana for about nine years now, we have been in Angola for about five years, we just incorporated in Uganda, we are almost finishing in Mozambique and then we have Senegal as the place we want to go.
“Our jobs don’t talk. We follow global practices and our devices will speak for us. That’s the same thing we are doing with all the PETAN members.
“We are talking with Ugandan services association, we are talking to Ghana, infact two associations in Ghana came to us and we are also talking to Mozambique and Angola.
“We want to ensure that we can share services, share facilities and work together to do things across Africa,’’ Omole said.
