Managing Director, LADOL, Amy Jadesimi |
The Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics (LADOL), has disclosed
that it is investing in a gas fired power plant, which will be built in phases.
The Managing Director, LADOL, Amy Jadesimi, dropped the hint
during a tour by a team from the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority
(NEPZA) to the base.
The power plant will not only boost available generation in
the country, which is grossly inadequate to meet local need, but will also be
an added boost to capacity development in-country
Jadesimi said: “We are building a 50MW power plant in
phases. The first phase is 24MW, which will be ready in about 18 months from
now.”
On the gas feedstock to fire the gas plant, she said LADOL
is in agreement with two gas firms to guarantee the steady supply of liquefied
natural gas (LNG) to generate the output.
In addition to the power plant, Jadesimi also revealed that
the logistics company is planing to build a new office building for NEPZA, to
be located at LADOL, adding that both parties are currently working on the
technicalities and expected to take off soon.
“The agency has been in LADOL since 2006, this is just an
upgrade of the existing facility,” she explained.
The Managing Director, NEPZA, Emmanuel Jimme, who assumed
office few weeks ago, explained that the visit marked the beginning of his
engagement with stakeholders in the Zone.
He said this will afford his team to rub minds with the
operators, to enable it “put in place a machinery that would enable us work in
a collaborative manner so that this agency will be supported and assisted by
the stakeholders to live up to its mandate and begin service delivery that is
required from an agency such as ours.”
He also noted that NEPZA has been mandated to make “a
paradigm shift in the pursuit of government as far as the industrialisation and
effort to develop our country is concerned.
That focus from my clear understanding is that this
industrial centre of excellence would need to be supported with government
machinery and goodwill. In a short while from now, the Presidency has directed
that this Authority manages the immediate creation of six very beautiful
industrial centres nationwide.”
The LADOL base currently employs about 2,000 workers with
target to increase it to 50,000 direct and indirect employments in the next few
years.
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