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Health, Safety & Environment Policy
HSE Policy
LADOL’s resolve to help the world attain the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals through well-structured approaches remain a rallying strategic path. Consequently, our commitment to absolute HSE compliance in a manner that aligns with ISO45001:2018 and ISO14001:2015 ensures that:
- safe and healthy working conditions for the prevention of work-related injury and ill-health including the protection of the environment is maintained
- control of HSE risks is performed in a hierarchical fashion and environmental pollution prevented
- complete participation of interested parties, in addition to LADOL workers is upheld even in HSEMS decisions making processes
- applicable requirements and compliance obligations are consistently fulfilled
- HSE performance and the HSE Management System is continually improved.
The expansion of LADOL as a sustainable industrial community shall be replicated in our high value activities which include logistics, repairs, fabrication, project support and facilities management. It will be ensured that our processes are steered with responsible risk management framework, effective proactive monitoring, life cycle outlook and measurable HSE objectives that promote biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
Our workers, esteemed clients, contractors and other stakeholders are hereby requested to support the implementation of this policy and feel free to offer suggestions for improvement of LADOL’s HSEMS.
Channels TV: Local content funding interview
LADOL Managing Director Dr Amy Jadesimi on was recently interviewed on the Business Morning program of Channels TV to discussing local content and funding of the EGINA FPSO project.
Watch the full video below.
GTR Africa: West Africa Trade & Export Finance Conference 2018
Dr. Amy Jadesimi, MD LADOL, was recently a guest speaker at GTR Africa: West Africa Trade & Export Finance Conference 2018. (February 1 and 2 2018 Eko Hotel, Lagos)
She spoke on the Topic: Expanding Operations in a Challenging Market Environment.
Dr. Amy provided an update on the progress made in expanding LADOL, an in-depth review on the challenges faced in recent years in area such as oil price stagnation, financing physical infrastructure investments, transparency issues, and oil market liberalization. She provided insight on future financing plans, and prospects for private investment growth in the Nigerian economy.
French Delegation visit LADOL
We were very pleased to welcome Ahmadu Kida-Musa, Jean-Michel Guy and Nicolas Terraz from TOTAL Nigeria as well as Consul General Laurent Polonceaux and Ambassadeur Denys Gauer to the Free Zone to mark the EGINA’s arrival
Picture from Left to Right
1. Mr Ahmadu-Kida MUSA (Deputy Managing Director Deep Water District – TOTAL E & P Nigeria)
2. Consul General Mr Laurent Polonceaux (French Consul General)
3. Mr Jean-Michel GUY (EGINA Project Director – Total E&P Nigeria)
4. Ambassadeur Mr Denys Gauer (French Ambassador in Nigeria)
5. Mr Nicolas Terraz (Managing Director/Chief Executive of Total E&P Nigeria)
Egina FPSO arrives at LADOL
Total’s massive Egina FPSO vessel arrived at LADOL yesterday. The biggest ship in West Africa, and one of the world’s biggest, it’s 330m long and 34m high. Designed to hold 2.3m barrels of oil. It’ll be moved to an ultra-deep field about 130km off the coast at some stage.
The arrival of the TOTAL Nigeria Egina FPSO to LADOL Free Zone is an historic milestone for industrialisation in Nigeria. Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director Hadiza Bala Usman was among those that joined LADOL MD Dr. Amy Jadesimi onsite to celebrate.
The Chairman of LADOL, Mr Oladipo (Ladi) Jadesimi, gave a speech to all distinguished guests to welcome the Egina.
NEXIM Bank Chief Executive Abba A. Bello and Executive Chairman Bala M. Bello with LADOL MD Amy Jadesimi admiring Egina from close up.
Quality Policy
From inception, LADOL has been committed to attaining and maintaining excellent quality standards. We provide all our relevant interested parties with innovative, high quality sustainable solutions. These quality standards are embedded in LADOL’s ISO9001:2015 compliant electronic management system. Our virtual management system provides us with the tools and data for continuous improvement, and systematic risk based processing, to ensure that we satisfy the needs of our clients and other stakeholders while complying with applicable regulatory and legislative requirements.
LADOL is committed to helping the world attain the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and has aligned its operations towards achieving this aim. Our high value industrial activities which include logistics, repairs, fabrication, project support and facilities management, are executed in a sustainable manner.
We would like our clients, staff and other stakeholders to join us in helping to achieve and maintain these standards, and being a part of our high quality sustainable community whilst this policy serves as a framework for establishing objectives at all levels.
OLADIPO JADESIMI, Executive Chairman
Ladi Jadesimi is an Oxford University Graduate in Jurisprudence. A Founding Partner in Arthur Andersen Nigeria and a major Investor in Niger Delta Oil Company, operating marginal field concessions from CHEVRON. With over twenty years’ experience in the Nigerian oil and gas sector, Mr Jadesimi has been instrumental in bringing several leading oil majors and oil servicing companies to Nigeria.
MD LADOL launches BSDC “Better Business Better World MENA” report in Cairo.
LADOL MD, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, today attended the launch of the Business & Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC) report “Better Business Better World – Sustainable Business Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa”; Dr Amy is a founding member of the Commission.
“Sustainable Businesses are the single most lucrative opportunities for private sector – generating $637 billion and creating 12.4 million jobs in MENA & $12 trillion for the world by 2030”, commented Dr. Amy at the launch event. “Sustainable businesses correct market failures creating exponential GDP growth, high profits and driving positive social changes, prosperity and stability”.
“As countries in the Middle East and North Africa rise up to open new opportunities for women, welcome refugees and diversify their economies, there remains a long road for the region as a whole to become inclusive and sustainable,” chairman of the BSDC Mark Malloch-Brown said. “Better Business, Better World MENA shows there is a compelling economic incentive for business and government to accelerate, embracing sustainable solutions and rolling out innovative strategies to ensure that the region exploits fully its potential,” he added.
Click here to read the full report.

Left to right:
– Mr. Ashraf Bakry (CO-Chairman AmCham Egypt Industry & Trade Committee; Managing Director – Unilever Mashreq)
– Mr. Mohammed El Kalla ( Chair, AmCham Egypt Education Committee; Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer – Ahead of the Curve)
– Dr. Amy Jadesimi (Commissioner – Business and Sustainable Development Commission; MD & CEO – LADOL)
– Mr. Frederic Sicre (Managing Director – The Abraaj Group)
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World Bank Growth Report – Nigeria’s growing economy
Statistics don’t put food on the table. The World Bank named Nigeria as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, but here’s how it can grow faster.
This month the World Bank announced that Nigeria was among the fastest-improving countries to undertake business globally. After years in the economic wilderness, negotiating an unpredictable oil price and weathering political upheaval, Nigeria seems finally to have attained recognition for the resilience of its economy.
LADOL wins Africa Infrastructure Award
LADOL recently took part in the Seatrade Maritime Awards 2017 and was the winner of the Africa Infrastructure Award. These are the awards that everyone in the region wants to win and this was an extremely competitive category.
Collected on behalf of Lagos Deep offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) by Mrs Vanessa Stephens, Global Events Director and Managing Director Middle East and Indian Sub-Continent, Seatrade.
Presented by Mr Andrew Williams, Aviation and Seatrade Group Director, Seatrade and Mrs Emma Howell, Group Marketing Manager, Seatrade.