General Electric (GE)
General - Lagos

Who We Are

GE is committed to supporting the sustainable development of Nigeria with advanced infrastructure technologies, services and solutions.

GE is committed to the country-to-company agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria, and is leveraging its global capabilities and expertise to support our customers and partners.

Presence

GE has been operating in Nigeria for over 40 years with businesses spanning across a number of key sectors including aviation, energy, healthcare, power & water and rail transportation. However in the past 2 years we have renewed our focus, built new service facilities, and employed more people to expand our capabilities. Today GE’s footprint consists of Offices in Lagos and Abuja and over 100 public and private sector customers.

Investments

There are currently over 350 employees in Nigeria. Service facilities in Port Harcourt and Onne with an annual spend of about $11 million on goods/services, labor, staff welfare and training in 2012. GE has ambitious plans to invest over $1 billion in Nigeria over the next 5 years to strengthen its local presence in manufacturing and product services, This investment will make Nigeria a regional hub for manufacturing, service, and innovation with an improved ability to support a broader range of product lines in power generation as well as oil & gas exploration and production.

Business Overview

GE Oil & Gas

GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technology equipment and services for all segments of the oil and gas industry, from drilling and production, LNG, pipelines and storage to industrial power generation, refining and petrochemicals. In Nigeria, GE established a temporary welding shed for consignments from Agip and BG which require repair, and opened a GE welding facility in December 2011 that employs over 30 people. By creating local employment and eliminating imports, this initiative generates Nigerian wealth, and ensures sustainable commitment to the Local Content Law.

GE Power

GE Power is among the world’s leading suppliers of power generation technologies including coal, oil, nuclear energy, natural gas, alternative fuels, and renewable sources from water, wind, solar and geothermal. GE Power & Water has supplied four gas turbines to Papalanto (Phase II) thermal power plant. The plant’s output is strategic to Nigeria’s national electricity grid, which targets a generating capacity of 10,000 MW within two years and 40,000 MW by 2020. The business has also addressed project management and synchronization challenges at the plant.

GE Transportation

GE Transportation is a global technology leader, and supplier of freight and passenger locomotives. The business has supplied 25 diesel locomotives to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, and has played a pivotal role in training and transferring valuable skills to NRC employees, as part of the GE Nigeria company-to-country agreement.

GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age in patient care. Lagos State in Nigeria focuses on addressing mother and child mortality rates, and in managing mother and child centers. Deux Project Limited chose GE as its equipment supplier. Statistics show that mortality rates are dropping as GE trains local staff and engineers, transfers skills to better manage services, and offers frontline support.

Partnership

GE is committed to Nigeria’s Vision 20:20:20. We signed an investment MOU with Nigeria and subsequent MOUs with several sectors in 2012 to expand our local capabilities:

• Ministry of Power - support development of 10GW of power over the next 10 years
• Ministry of Health – support the development of diagnostic centers in Nigeria
• Nigeria Railway Corporation - modernization and expansion of Nigeria’s locomotive fleet
• Honeywell- GE and Honeywell entered into an MOU whereby GE will bring its development and technical expertise as well as development funding and long term equity to the support of Honeywell’s power generation projects

Some other key agreements/partnerships are:

• GE and Dangote agreement: This is a strategic collaboration Agreement to explore opportunities for investment in infrastructural projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement covers projects for the design, production and sales of GE aeroderivative gas turbine power generation packages in Nigeria and other selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• GE and Me Cure agreement: Our Strategic Alliance with Me Cure will advance the development of our two key MOU imperatives i.e. development of world class diagnostic imaging centers and the advancement of the co-location PPP projects with the MOH to upgrade and bring key missing technologies to the Government Health institutions.
• GE and Oats Global agreement: GE and Oats Global signed a Support and Exclusivity (Development agreement) which formalizes GE's support of Oats Global's Imobi project – a 450MW single cycle gas-fired project with plans to convert to 740MW combined cycle based on GE technology.

Citizenship

• GE Nigeria Women’s Network in Nigeria participated in "Run for a Cure", an event organized by Child Survival and Development Organization of Nigeria (CS-DON), a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization for people battling with Breast, Cervical and Childhood Cancer.
• GE Nigeria Volunteers participated in a youth summer camp event targeted at Senior Secondary students in Lagos. Part of the Vision 20/20 – Youth Empowerment and Restoration initiative, it was a platform to provide insight into various industries and sectors in Nigeria, and help the youth make future career decisions.
• Over 30 GE employees in Lagos, Nigeria visited the Nigeria Hermann Gmeiner Primary School in the SOS Children's Villages. The SOS Children's Villages works in more than 130 countries to support families and help children at risk grow up in a loving home. Employees donated over 400 books to the nursery and primary school pupils.