Last month made it 11 years that the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act was enacted and without doubt, the past 11 years had been a mixed bag. One major player in the local content orbit of the nation’s oil and gas industry, who knows of every corner of the NOGICD room, is Dr. Diran Fawibe, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, International Energy Services Limited (IESL). A pioneer staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Fawibe is one of the early founding fathers of Nigeria’s national oil company. As one of the few, who erected the fundamentals that hold the architecture and superstructure, that is today’s NNPC, Fawibe, who looms large in the local content arena of the oil and gas community, says there are some areas of interventions that deserve more attention; especially concerning access to support fund by the indigenous oil services companies. With over five decades of active service to the industry, Fawibe is a doyen of the hydrocarbon industry, not only in Nigeria, but in the global community; so his views are taken seriously in the industry. Kunle Aderinokun and Chris Paul engage this quiet, but noble encyclopedia and roadmap of Africa’s largest oil producer on issues concerning the state of play in the controversy-ridden industry. He is blunt in saying the bitter truth, but appreciative of progress made thus far. Excerpts: