Why CTSI is now in Nigeria – boss

With the rebasing of the Nigerian economy, foreign investors that nurse the ambition of boosting the nation’s economy to meet the yarning of Nigerian have continued to be attracted.

One of such investors is the Edif Group, which is being represented in the country by CTSI Oil and Gas Projects Nigeria Limited. Its major areas of operations would be in oil and gas, power and rail transport sectors.

The company has promised that with its coming into Nigeria, it would enhance the economy through improved services in the oil and gas, power and rail sectors, among others.

It plans to combine its global scale expertise with local presence and knowledge to ensure a more proficient and quality services in the oil and gas, power and rail sectors of the country.

Apart from playing a global role in the oil and gas sector, it also has significant presence in the power and defence sectors of the global economy

According to Daug Davies, project director for the group, who disclosed the reasons they are now attracted to do business in Nigeria, that Nigeria at the moment has the biggest GDP in the whole of Africa.

The huge potential for business and economic activities, he said, especially his company’s type of business, gave the confidence and sought out for a Nigerian partner to establish a thriving business, describing the Edif Group as a leading provider of technical consultancy, quality and safety services, and front end engineering and design (FEED) around the world.

The service delivery of the group delivery cuts across the whole life circle of any particular assets, starting from the front end engineering and design (FEED) through to commissioning and operation and maintenance, safety critical applications, due diligence, site inspection to ensure that what is needed is supplied, provide inspection for vendor service, pipeline surveillance, either in onshore or offshore, under sea or even on land. It is real blend of front-end services through life engineering.

The CTSI boss, who said that the company had had relationships with some Nigeria companies before now, explained that some of the companies it had acquired have had business relationship with a group of some Nigerian companies such as ExxonMobil, Delta Afrik and other smaller companies.

“What happened between us and these companies was that whenever they have projects in the country and part of the projects were to be carried out outside the country we supervise the works and ensure the delivery of such services to Nigeria from anywhere around the globe,” he said.

In Nigeria, he said, the company would help the power companies to improve their operations through the technical and management service it would provide.

The company, he explained, would be able to service the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and ensure stability and resilience and proper planning in power supply, adding that it type of services fits very well into the current Nigerian situation. “In Power design and engineering, we can help bring our expertise to bear in Nigeria,” he said, saying the activities of the company were all about ensuring improving the resilience, reliability performance and safety of very expensive capital assets, whether in refinery, gas turbine, existing distribution infrastructure, renewable energy or existing energy.

“We are working across a good number of sectors and it has enabled us to gather the best practice across the sectors and bring them to bear in the country.”

 

Olusola Bello