Africa oil & gas providers form local content body

Oil and gas service providers across Africa have formed a continental forum known as the African Local Content Organisation (ALCO), with the goal of collaborating among themselves to deliver complex projects, creating and retaining value in the multibillion dollar African energy sector and growing the economy.  The organisation was unveiled on Wednesday, during the second […]

Oil and gas service providers across Africa have formed a continental forum known as the African Local Content Organisation (ALCO), with the goal of collaborating among themselves to deliver complex projects, creating and retaining value in the multibillion dollar African energy sector and growing the economy. 

The organisation was unveiled on Wednesday, during the second day of the 2025 Namibia Oil and Gas Conference, at Windhoek, Namibia. Membership is open to national associations of service providers in the oil and gas and mining sectors across the African continent.

General Manager, Corporate Communications of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoriong Board (NCDMB) Dr. Obinna Ezeobi, in a statement on Thursday, quoted the Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) and member of NCDMB Governing Council, Mr. Wole Ogunsanya, as introducing the organisation.

He explained that the body would serve as the private sector arm of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation, (APPO), which comprises African governments engaged in oil and gas operations.

He underscored the pivotal and complementary roles the private sector plays in building African local content, particularly in the development of competent human capacities, deployment of technologies and equipment, mobilization of private capital, and execution of projects.   

He said the organisation would be launched officially at the 2026 African Union (AU) conference, in view of its strategic importance to the continent’s economy.