Olusola Adeoye
With the robust presence of Solewant Group at worldwide oil, gasoline and maritime sectors’ occasions in 2025 the place it showcased technological improvements, the corporate has continued to spice up the efforts of the federal authorities in selling Nigerian content material growth on the worldwide map.
In 2025, the corporate participated in a number of worldwide occasions in Houston, Texas, United States; New York, additionally in america; Algiers in Algeria; and Dorchester in London, United Kingdom, amongst others.
Established 25 years in the past, Solewant Group has delivered high-impact tasks to worldwide oil corporations (IOCs) and engineering, procurement and building (EPC) corporations.
The corporate has efficiently delivered world-class tasks on schedule, together with metal pipe manufacturing, anti-corrosion and mechanical safety for metal pipes, pipeline discipline joint safety, and pipe fabrication operations. This robust monitor file has established the corporate as a number one African provider of coated metal pipes to the oil and gasoline business.
Its state-of-the-art industrial park is Africa’s largest pipe coating facility, spanning 156,000 sq. meters in Alode, Eleme Native Authorities Space (LGA) of Rivers State.
With the commissioning of an ultra-modern Pipe Bend Multi-Layer Pipe Coating Plant by the corporate in July 2025, the corporate’s state-of-the-art industrial park and Africa’s largest-pipe coating facility, grew to become a recreation changer within the federal authorities’s efforts to make Nigeria the hub of metal pipe fabrication and coating in Africa.
The corporate proudly represented Nigeria on the Offshore Expertise Convention (OTC) in Houston, Texas, from Might 5 to eight, 2025, the place it showcased revolutionary oil and gasoline merchandise and options. OTC is a consortium of 15 non-profit organizations devoted to supporting the worldwide power sector.
On Might 6, the corporate’s Group Government Director, Mr. Matthew Aganren, delivered a presentation on behalf of Group Chief Government Officer Mr. Solomon Ewanehi on the firm’s exhibition sales space within the Nigerian pavilion. The presentation was attended by senior authorities and business officers, together with the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), the Minister of State for Petroleum (Gasoline), members of the Nationwide Meeting, the Group Chief Government Officer of NNPC Restricted, managing administrators from worldwide oil corporations and Nigerian impartial operators, in addition to representatives from the Petroleum Expertise Affiliation of Nigeria (PETAN) and the Oil and Gasoline Trainers Affiliation of Nigeria (OGTAN).
Talking throughout the presentation, Ewanehi had famous that the corporate, which excelled in manufacturing and provide of metal pipes, metals, fabrication and specialty coating options for 25years, was coming into the subsequent section of its in depth growth by means of a sequence of investments and expansions.
The corporate additionally attracted world consideration as a number one exhibitor on the fourth version of the Intra-African Commerce Honest (IATF 2025) in Algiers, Algeria. The occasion, organized by Afreximbank and held on the SAFEX Constructing from September 4 to 10, 2025, introduced collectively Africa’s most revolutionary companies throughout a number of sectors.
Nigeria’s main pipe manufacturing, coating and power sector options supplier showcased cutting-edge applied sciences and its sturdy portfolio of subsidiaries on the occasion. The truthful attracted 35,000 contributors and a couple of,000 exhibitors, and secured a record-breaking $48.2 billion in commerce and funding offers.
A significant spotlight of the corporate’s participation was the high-profile visits to its exhibition sales space.
A few of the distinguished dignitaries who stopped by included former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; Nigeria’s Minister of Trade, Commerce and Funding, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, and Everlasting Secretary, Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Funding, Ambassador Nura Abba Rimi.
These distinguished company engaged the corporate’s workforce with questions on the Group’s worth addition to Africa’s power and infrastructure sectors, significantly in metal pipe manufacturing, superior pipeline coating applied sciences, protecting paints, fabrication providers, and Human Capital Growth.
The corporate’s Group Managing Director/CEO and delegation chief, Mr. Ewanehi, offered compelling insights into how the corporate grew to become a trusted champion in Nigerian Content material Growth, bridging gaps in expertise, capability and industrial excellence. “Our dedication shouldn’t be solely to ship world-class coated pipes, fabrication, and specialty protecting options but additionally to deepen indigenous capability by means of coaching and expertise switch. We see Solewant as a car for Africa’s self-reliance in power and infrastructure,” Ewanehi was quoted as saying.
In September 2025, the corporate joined senior authorities officers and different world gamers within the oil and gasoline, in addition to maritime industries to dissect Gulf of Guinea’s (GoG) power, maritime and funding prospects at a high-level roundtable on the sidelines of the eightieth Session of UN Common Meeting (UNGA 80) in New York, United States.
With over $800 billion in power and infrastructure alternatives, the GoG occupies a strategic place within the world financial structure, as an rising crucial gateway for funding, commerce, and safety cooperation.
The highest-notch roundtable themed: “Unlocking Power, Oil & Gasoline, Minerals and Maritime Alternatives within the Gulf of Guinea: A Roadmap for Peace and Safety,” was convened by The New Diplomat, a non-partisan coverage suppose tank primarily based in Abuja, in collaboration with the Luanda-based Gulf of Guinea Fee (GGC) to deepen worldwide engagement on peace and safety.
In his goodwill message on the high-level roundtable, Solewant Group’s founder, Ewanehi informed the worldwide viewers that “Solewant Group speaks to the function indigenous corporations can play. For Over 25 years we now have invested in individuals, crops and merchandise, together with commissioning what’s extensively reported as West Africa’s largest multi-layer pipe-coating facility, to strengthen native content material, job creation, and supply-chain resilience for power and infrastructure tasks. These investments validate that when safety and financing frameworks are aligned, African corporations are absolutely able to delivering high-quality industrial capability that meets world requirements,” he added.
In keeping with him, the corporate is actively translating regional pursuits into concrete partnerships, showcasing superior applied sciences, and fascinating governments and buyers at main world fora.
Following the result of the roundtable, Ewanehi was honoured in Abuja with an award final December for his excellent contributions to peace and sustainable growth within the Gulf of Guinea.
The corporate additionally confirmed a robust presence when world oil and gasoline business gamers, together with the Managing Director of TotalEnergies Nigeria, Mattieu Bouyer; Managing Director of ExxonMobil Nigeria, Jagir Baxi; and the then Fee Chief Government (CCE) of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, gathered in Dorchester, London, for NUPRC’s Roadshow held from November 11 to 12, 2025.
Different business leaders on the occasion embrace: Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Seplat, Mr. Roger Brown; Chairman of AA Holdings, Austin Avuru; Chairman of Governing Board, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC), Mr. Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, and a few federal lawmakers.
On the occasion, Ewanehi had listed transparency, innovation, collaboration, and rising applied sciences as key drivers mandatory for the expansion of Africa’s power sector.
Tagged: “Undertaking 1MMBOPD’ Further Manufacturing Funding Discussion board”, the two-day occasion was geared toward accelerating Nigeria’s purpose of manufacturing a further 1 million barrels of crude oil per day (bpd) by means of innovation and collaboration.
Talking on the result of the occasion, Ewanehi had informed ARISE Tv that worldwide buyers on the occasion sought and got assurances by federal lawmakers and regulators on an enough sturdy authorized framework to offer buyers consolation and defend investments.
Regardless of these worldwide engagements the place it exhibited rising applied sciences and promoted Nigerian content material growth, the corporate was additionally a number one participant in native conferences and exhibitions, together with the Nigerian Oil and Gasoline Alternative Honest (NOGOF) 2025, held on the Nigerian Content material Growth and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The corporate additionally hosted its ninth annual power summit from November 27 – 28, which attracted policymakers, power executives, financiers, growth companions, and researchers from throughout Africa and the remainder of the world, on the Solewant Industrial Park, Alode, Eleme, Rivers State.
Themed: “Rising Applied sciences and the Way forward for Sustainable Power Growth in Africa,” the 2025 summit targeted on how transformative applied sciences similar to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), robotics, automation, knowledge analytics, and different digital improvements are redefining the frontiers of Africa’s power transition.
Looking forward to 2026, Ewanehi outlined the corporate’s strategic path, emphasizing its function as an industrial powerhouse positioned to serve Africa’s power sector.
“We’re gearing up by way of capability era, native content material growth and infrastructure divestment in oil, gasoline, power and water sector assets. Our Roadmap Plus is a 10-year industrial growth roadmap envisioned to crystallize main power sector breakthroughs throughout Africa. In the meanwhile, we’re mobilising monetary assets to help pipeline tasks throughout Africa; this can take up DFI capital, create jobs, and construct sturdy native worth chains,” he had defined.
………Adeola, an oil and gasoline analyst, writes from Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
