The federal government has prohibited the issuance of waivers for importing threaded pipes used in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
Heineken Lokpobiri, minister of state for petroleum resources (oil), gave this directive to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) at the commissioning of Monarch Alloys Limited’s concrete weight coating plant in Lagos on Thursday.
The new facility has an annual external coating capacity of two million square metres and an internal coating capacity of one million square metres. It supports both onshore and offshore pipeline requirements, where longer lines and deeper sea beds require advanced corrosion protection.