NIGERIAN CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND MONITORING BOARD (NCDMB), YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE-INVITATION TO SUBMIT PROPOSAL FOR NIGERIAN CONTENT RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE
INVITATION TO SUBMIT PROPOSAL FOR NIGERIAN CONTENT RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE
NCDMB CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS: NIGERIAN CONTENT TOWERS, OX-BOW LAKE, SWALI, YENAGOA, BAYELSA STATE.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has commenced the Nigerian Content Research, Innovation and Technology Challenge, 2025/2026.
The competition seeks to identify and develop new technologies to address specific challenges in the oil and gas industry, and its linkage sectors.
Further to this, NCDMB hereby invites interested individuals, research institutions, academia, oil and gas supplier industry and members of the public with research innovations to submit proposals for evaluation and admission into NCDMB Innovation bank hosted in the NCDMB Technology Innovation and Incubation Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.
2. THEMATIC FOCUS
All proposals shall be in line with the approved thematic areas and priority industry challenge, as listed below:
a) Geological and Geophysical Studies thematic area: Developing solutions related to exploration, big data, real time logging data processing
b) Local Materials Substitution Studies thematic area: Sustainable materials for environmental remediation, materials for development of cryogenic technology for LNG, refinery, and other applications, local materials for ultra-high temperature high pressure cementing.
c) Technology Development Studies thematic area: Innovation on denationalisation technology, application of Internet of Things to exploration and production, and condensate refining technology.
d) Health, Safety and Environmental Studies thematic area: Proposals are expected from carbon capture utilisation and storage technology to reduce greenhouse emission, depollution and produced water management system, and hydrogen production techniques to enhance COâ‚‚ capture
e) Engineering Studies thematic area: Proposals are expected from developing technology solutions for enhanced oil recovery, refinery units technology to improve efficiency, laboratory analytical equipment for experiment and materials testing, and drilling technology, instrumentation, and control systems.
f) Renewable Energy: Proposals are expected from solar energy technologies, wind energy solutions, and energy storage systems such as battery technologies: hydrogen storage and thermal storage: molten salts.
3. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
All proposals should be submitted in the following format:
1. Company/institution name
2. Thematic area
3. Title of innovation
4. Description of innovation
5. Objective, vision, mission, and values, solution and expected product
6. Team structure
7. Funding model and budget estimate
8. Marketing plan, including timelines to market
9. Risk analysis
4. SUBMISSION
Proposals should not be more than 1,500 words and should be submitted not later than a month from the date of publication via email address: info@tiic.ncdmb.com.ng.