(openPR) - SGS Industrial Services in Nigeria received the African Oil and Gas Inspection Excellence Award 2011 from the African Leadership magazine in recognition of SGS’s outstanding contribution to the development of the Nigerian economy by excellent service delivery in the Oil and Gas industry on May 2, 2011. SGS Industrial Services was presented with the important award by His Excellency, Prof. Adebowale Adefiye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States of America, during the prestigious African Oil and Gas Leadership Excellence Awards dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Houston Downtown in Houston, Texas.

African Leadership is a pan-African, international magazine published by Leadership and Events Limited, an international media communications and publishing group, and is dedicated to bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, while evolving solutions to the peculiar challenges faced by African people. The preeminent African Oil and Gas Excellence Awards 2011 is organized by the African Leadership magazine to celebrate outstanding growth of the African oil and gas industry and to foster international cooperation and an optimal networking opportunity for African industry professionals.

The event attracted members of the diplomatic community as well as key players from the oil, gas and petrochemical sector. SGS Industrial Services is proud to be honored with this important award, which acknowledges SGS’s excellent services in the Oil and Gas industry. With its first-rate experience and competence, SGS is looking forward to an even greater contribution to the development of the Nigerian economy.

About SGS Services for Oil, Gas and the Petrochemical Industry

With its multi-disciplinary teams of experts, SGS Industrial Services offers a wide range of inspection, testing, certification and verification services to all parties involved in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries around the world, including owners, operators, contractors, investors and equipment manufacturers. The SGS integrated approach of specialized solutions and traditional services focused on the complete asset lifecycle adds value to all projects and improves the productivity of any existing facility.

About SGS Industrial Services

Industrial Services is one of the major business lines of the SGS Group, a global service provider for technical verification, inspection, testing and conformity assessment. SGS Industrial Services ensures that the customer’s installations, material, equipment, facilities and projects meet all quality and performance requirements, whether they are regulatory, voluntary or customer based. Industrial Services has decades’ worth of experience and some remarkable references in serving key industries, such as Construction, Industrial Manufacturing and Trade, Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries, Power Generation and Transmission, Banks and Financial Institutions as well as Renewable Energy.

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 64,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1,250 offices and laboratories around the world.

SGS Industrial Services
George Mclean
Project Manager

SGS Inspection Services Nigeria Limited
No1 Wogu Street
D/Line Portharcourt
Nigeria

t: +234 84 456 057-58
Email: industrial.pr@sgs.com
Web: www.sgs.com/industrial