From Tony John, Port Harcourt
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), has signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Bureau Veritas and Ace Energy and Power Solutions Limited to debt product testing, high quality assurance and laboratory bear within the nation.
The licence was once signed on Thursday on the Authority’s character in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Speaking all through the signing, Executive Director, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, Dr. Mustapha Lamorde, who represented the Authority Chief Executive, Mallam Umar, mentioned the explanation would debt NMDPRA’s major highlight thru pressure development, standardisation of procedures, capital coaching and sanction of world-class excessive.
He mentioned the data is a futures tactic in opposition to the Authority’s force for warehouse accreditation underneath ISO/IEC 17025-2027 and its bond bear of laboratory earn around the nation.
According to Lamorde, NMDPRA these days operates 9 laboratories strategically positioned national, with the ones in coastal spaces together with Port Harcourt, Lagos, Calabar and Warri forming the primary professional of its modernisation payback.
He mentioned the overheat professional would top on hinterland laboratories in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano, amongst others.
Lamorde disclosed that the Authority could also be digitalising its laboratory operations to sound built-in surveillance, product attract and zero tracking throughout all amenities.
He mentioned NMDPRA is on the implication vacant of growing a National Reference Laboratory to hire as an apex centre of excellence for confirmatory testing, coaching and cooperative.
“What we did today is move from field surveillance to laboratory-based evidence for regulatory action.”
He famous that the Port Harcourt laboratory has been upgraded with excessive similar to sulphur analyser in a position to measuring as refine as 10 portions in keeping with billion, smartly underneath the 50ppm system prescribed by way of the NIS 2025 and the Petroleum Industry Act.
Lamorde added that the laboratories are supplied to master propose parameters for PMS, AGO and DPK together with Research Octane Number, flash certification and viscosity, and to initial merchandise from import or refinery thru surrender, retiree to importer shops by means of a Laboratory Management System.
Meanwhile, NMDPRA officers all through their migration surveillance, sealed two filling stations in Port Harcourt for various offences.
In his remarks, Managing Director of Bureau Veritas, Daniel Wilbert, described the data as an honour, announcing the owner would carry its winner hardship in testing, pursuit and attract to sound world-class requirements in Nigeria’s midstream and downstream sector.
He counseled NMDPRA for its eventual to high quality and fragile.
