By NATHAN NWAKAMMA

Eight hundred indigenes in 112 host communities of an oil company operating in the Niger Delta are to benefit from its 2021/2022 scholarship scheme.

The company, Heritage Energy Operational Services Ltd., (HEOSL), is the operator of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30 Joint Venture between NNPC Exploration and Production Ltd. and Shoreline Natural Resources Ltd.

Its General Manager, Government, Joint Venture and External Relations, Mr Sola Adebawo stated on Friday that applications for the scholarships would be processed between Aug. 19 and Aug. 19 and Nov. 19.

He stated that the OML 30 scholarship scheme had supported more than 4,300 scholars from the host communities since its inception in 2012.

OML 30, he added, had contributed to ensuring access to quality education in secondary schools and universities by indigenes of its host communities.

Adebawo quoted the Chief Executive Officer of HEOSL, Mr Ado Oseragbaje, as saying that the company and its Joint Venture partners considered education as crucial to national development.

“This is why we are committed to supporting educational development in communities neighbouring our operations as well as in Delta State in general,’’ he stated.

Adebawo explained that the company’s corporate social responsibility is targeted at the thematic areas of education, health and economic empowerment.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that HEOSL is a subsidiary of Heritage Oil Ltd., a Jersey, United States-based oil and gas exploration and production company and equity owner in SNRL. (NAN)

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