EDO SCHOOL WINS SEPLAT 2020 QUIZ COMPETITION . . . as oil producing company promises host communities better days ahead.

By Mike ALADENIKA.

St. Michael College Benin, Edo State, has emerged the winner of the year 2020  and the 9th edition of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc's annual PEARLs (Preparing Exceptional and Responsible Leaders) Quiz Competition, thus  carting  home a star prize of  N7m while each of the three students who represented the school at the competition got N100,000. 

The first runners up, McNell Academy Secondary School, Sapele, Delta State, was given N3m while its three representatives at the competition got N75,000 each. Second runners up, Gloryland Secondary School, Igarra, Edo State got N1m for its efforts while each of its three representatives was given N50,000. Third runners up, St. John's Academy, Oleh, Delta State, was awarded N1m while its three representatives got N50,000 each.

The schools were also awarded trophies and educational materials as acknowledgement of their sterling achievements in the competition

In her welcome address at  the epoch event which was also spiced with cultural displays plus scintillating and choreographed dance steps by the students who thrilled the audience made up of top personalities from Edo and the neighbouring Delta State endlessly,

 the General Manager, External Affairs and Communications, Chioma Nwachuku, said that the company know the value of education and that is why it has been organising the programme in the last eight years, adding that 45,140 students have benefitted from the programme thus far. 

Nwachku promised that there are better days ahead for stakeholders in its host communities as the company is constantly coming forth with new initiatives that can bring succour to the communities.

Apart from the programme she disclosed that the company has been very consistent in impacting positively on the living condition of the people of its host communities.

Addressing the gathering, the Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Marcus Onobun, applauded the efforts of Seplat in making the event a yearly programme and for impacting positively in so many other ways on the lives of the people in its area of operations.

According to Edo Speaker, "the role of youths in the development of our country is very key. What you're doing is a step in the right direction" stressing that "every company should see how they can give back to the society."

Seplat Petroleum Development Company(SEPLAT) is a Nigerian independent oil and gas company listed on both the London and Nigerian stock exchanges with a strategic focus in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.

SEPLAT was formed in June 2009 through the partnership of Shebah Petroleum Development Company Limited and Platform Petroleum Joint Ventures Limited to specifically pursue upstream oil and gas opportunities in Nigeria, and in particular divestment opportunities arising out of the incumbent Major IOC’s portfolios.

In July 2010, SEPLAT acquired a 45 percent participating interest in, and was appointed operator of, a portfolio of three onshore producing oil and gas blocks in the Niger Delta (OMLs 4, 38 and 41) which include numerous producing fields and future development opportunities. Through the implementation of a focused re-development work programme and extensive drilling campaign SEPLAT subsequently grew oil production to a peak rate of 85,200 barrels(13,550 m3) of oil per day and had almost doubled its remaining reserves as at end 2015. In June 2013, SEPLAT acquired an interest in the Umuseti/Igbuku marginal field area within OPL 283 and in February 2015 acquired interests in OML 53 and OML 55.

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