*Agbami Parties Donate a Women Skills Acquisition Center  and a Townhall to Rivers State Communities*  

Lagos-

Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, a Chevron Company and the operator of the Agbami field, together with its parties in the Agbami field - Famfa Oil Limited, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited and Prime 127 Nigeria Limited, recently donated a women skills acquisition center to Ogu community and a town hall to Onne community in Rivers state.

Correspondent reports that the facilities were commissioned on Friday, April 30,  2021 and December 15, 2020 respectively. 

The women skills acquisition center  included  a main hall, one office, one store room and toilet, seven electric sewing machines and five manual sewing machines, an electric generator, water borehole and accessories, office furniture, classroom tables and chairs with teachers’ tables.

Similarly, the town hall donated to Onne community was furnished with chairs as well as office furniture plus a power generator, water supply and public address system.

The Director, Deepwater Production Sharing Contracts, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, Mr Robert Hulett in his speech thanked  the Rivers state Government for its support on the project.

He disclosed that the Agbami parties have also implemented other projects in the past in Rivers state. 

“Other Social Investments by the Agbami parties in Rivers State include execution and handover of a two kilometer waterfront streetlight project to Ogu community in 2014, a Chest Clinic currently being executed at the General Hospital Eleme in Rivers State to benefit all the communities around the Onne Port Complex” he said.

According to him, the  Agbami parties have also donated a 1000KVA CAT Generator to the University of Port Harcourt  and have instituted a specialized educational scholarship programme in support of medical and engineering manpower development in Nigeria.

"About 1,904 Rivers State indigenes have benefitted from the Agbami Medical and Engineering Professional Scholarship between 2009 to 2019" he added.

“In addition to the above projects, we have contributed to Local Community Content Development by empowering and building the capacity of some local community contractors” he said.  .

 

Onne community council of Chiefs as well as Chairman Ogu Divisional council of Chiefs, Chief L.T Williams Tubonibo Iyama, applauded the Agbami parties for the donation.

“We commend the Agbami parties for this CSR project and are particularly happy on the focus of this project on infrastructure and education which  areas critical for the development of a nation” Chief Williams said.