Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Thursday inaugurated a 300,000 U.S. dollars (N49.2m) Petroleum Engineering Drilling Mud Laboratory Equipment at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT).
The Managing Director of SPDC, Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, said at the inauguration of the equipment in Choba, Rivers, that the facility would be used to conduct research on Exploration and Production (E&P) in the nation’s oil and gas industry.
Sunmonu, who was represented by the company’s Manager, Well Engineering, Mr Bernard Obaorekpe, said that the equipment had been fully tested and put to use in research and development and teaching.
On his part, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of UNIPORT, Prof. Ethelbert Nduka, who took delivery of the facility, said already the university was the centre for excellence in oil and gas studies in sub-saharan Africa.
