Shell donates research centre to varsity

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March 21, 2016 11:19 AM

The centre has 15 fully-networked workstations, a high-end server complete with internet facilities and a standby 45-Kva generator.

University of Ibadan

Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture has gifted the University of Ibadan, Oyo state, with ultra-modern subsurface research centre. The centre will go a long way to boost the development of top rate manpower for the nation’s oil and gas industry.

The centre has 15 fully-networked workstations, a high-end server complete with internet facilities and a standby 45-Kva generator among other facilities.

Igo Weli, SPDC’s General Manager, External Relations, said on March 14, "The SPDC JV’s intervention to turn around the subsurface centre of the university is a careful choice to support the institution to deliver the next generation of technologies and skills that will help Nigeria to unlock more oil reserves."

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“With all the modern facilities and promise of uninterrupted power supply, the centre has the capacity to showcase the potentials of oil and gas sector while attracting bright minds, and our hope is that students will make the best use of it,” Weli added.

Vice Chancellor of the institution, said, “we appreciate the contributions of the SPDC JV to education, to the geosciences and to University of Ibadan in particular. The facility will help the efforts of the university to recreate itself as a centre of excellence in geosciences training.”

The subsurface centre is expected to usher in new levels of learning at the University of Ibadan and other institutions in southwestern Nigeria. Students and researchers can access real-time information and connect with other learning centres anywhere in the world from their keyboards.

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