About Us

Overview of Skipper EPC in Africa & Asia with Nigeria as Regional Headquarter.

Skipper House Victoria Island Lagos is the regional headquarter for Skipper Nigeria Ltd, Skipper Ghana Ltd and Skipper Kenya Ltd and all of them are Hundred percent subsidiaries of Skipper T&D DMCC and one of the few foreign companies to have invested heavily in Nigeria. First foreign investor to bring revolutionary changes in the production and servicing of various electric equipment and accessories for the Power sector in Nigeria & sub-Saharan Africa.

Similarly Skipper House Airport Road Abuja (Near Stadium behind AA Rano Filling Station) is the Northern Nigeria Head quarter for Skipper Green and Skipper Nigeria. North of Nigeria including FCT Abuja are being massively deployed with Offgrid and Ongrid Renewable energy projects across length and bredth of the AREWA (the North of Nigeria)

Skipper in Africa has successfully executed EPC projects in the field of Transmission lines and GIS/AIS Substations up to 220KV for Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP), CEB Togo & Benin, Gridco & ECG in Ghana, Negelec in Niger, and SONABEL in Burkina Faso, KPLC in Kenya, HVPNL & BSPTCL in India, BPCL In Bhutan and Private Industrial sector across Sub Saharan Africa, East Africa, North & South Africa and Asia.

With more than 20 years of on-ground presence in Nigeria/Ghana/Kenya, Skipper is well versed with local operating conditions and is ideally suited to execute high value Generation, Transmission, Distribution and rural Electrification projects.

Skipper Proven Track record can be seen in Hydro project (Tiga Hydro 1x2 & 1x8MW) and Challawa Hydro (2x3MW) in Kano state, 26MW Open Cycle Gas Power Plant at Calabar (Cross River State), 450MW Combined Cycle Gas Power Plant in Dangote Oil Refining Company (Lekki-Lagos), 2x35MVA 161/34.5KV Berekum Substation and associated 161KV and 34.5KV Transmission lines for GRIDCO Ghana, 161KV substations in TOGO & Benin for CEB, 90KV substations and 30MW diesal generation for Nigelec Niger republic, over 1000KMs of Rural electrication for TOGO and Burkina Faso and hundreds of 33KV substations for NIPP, PHCN, Discos across sub-Saharan Africa are few to count amongst Skipper’s Completed projects across Africas.

Our investments in all above sectors have brought stability to the system and created more job opportunities in Africa. Our workforce, ideology and proactive approach keep us ahead of the Industry. We are determined to harness the talent of Nigerian workforce through training and exposure at the global front, by giving them key roles and responsibilities.

Skipper EPC from Nigeria conducts its business under three major business verticals:

EPC Division with 3 verticals;
Infra EPC vertical for construction of Green Economic Zones & Hydro Power Plants.
T&D EPC vertical for the EPC of Transmission lines and Substations up to 330KV.
Gas Power EPC vertical for the construction of Gas power plants

Infra Vertical

Infra division is not only a standalone arm of Skipper to take up public utility projects in Nigeria, but also support other divisions of Skipper from primary stage for total conceptualization of project/ facility and civil works.

As such, Infra division has Special Economic Zone Projects, Hydro Projects and large scale Solar Park grid connected projects.

We have in-house design and Engineering team along with reputed consultants like AFC, L&T, Sgurr Energy, DMR Hydro, to name a few.

We follow time tested Prime-Vera and MS Projects software for project planning and management as well as inculcate competency of project execution, monitoring and control through ISO philosophy of PDCA cycle.

Presently we have Katsina SEZ, Tiga and Challawa HEP and 2 GW Solar Park Projects in the portfolio of Infra Division.

T&D vertical

This is one of the core divisions having portfolio of manufacturing electrical product and construction of sub-station and Transmission as forward integration. In Nigeria, It began as first step in medium voltage 11 and 33kV projects of NIPP, which made significant contribution in electrifying urban and rural areas.

Thereafter, it headed for business opportunities in Extra High Voltage (EHV) Sub-station and Transmission lines.

Some of the prestigious and notable executed and commissioned 132kv Sub-stations are at Lafarge, Kaduna, etc...

25/33MVA, 161kV Substation
25/33MVA, 161kV Power Transformer
Construction of 45km/161kV Transmission line Gridco, Berekum, Ghana

132kV Double Circuit

350km Transmission Lines-Lot 9, Yola, Nigeria

Rural Electrification project

Rural electrification of localities and Sub-localities in Kara & Savana regions of Togo

2X26MVA 33kV/11kV Outdoor Substation, Konongo, Ghana
17x50MVA 132/33kV Substations Augmentation EPC in Bihar, India
33/20/15kV Rural Electrification Works & Construction Lines Burkina Faso
2x60MVA, 11.5/132kV Substation, Major Equipment Supplier & EPC Contractor Lafarge Cement, Ogun State, Nigeria
Reinforcement of 161/63/20kV Substation CEB, Lome port, Mome Hagou & Cimao Port, Togo
Gas Insulated Substation 220kV 2x160MVA GIS Substation in Sec-33 Gurgaon, Haryana (Completion year 2017) 220/33kV, 2x100MVA GIS substation, Sec-69, Gurgaon, Haryana (Completion March 2022)
6x1000kVA, 2x500kVA PSS & Power Distribution System in Township at Bjimthangkha & Jatsokha, Bhutan
World Bank project under PMU of TCN 2x15MVA 33/11kV Injection Substation and associated downstream HT/LV Distribution Line Mararaba & Anglo (Jos), Nigeria

2x66MVA, 132/33kV Substation Major Equipment Supplier & EPC Contractor Kudendan Power Plant, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Distribution Projects & Lines Around 2000km Lines & Over 50 Substations in various DISCOMs & NIPP, Nigeria
Upgradation of 33kV Substations GEDAP-ECG, Ghana (Completion year 2014) Kisseman 2x20/26MVA 33kV Substation & Double Circuit Tower Line at Gimpa University, Accra, Ghana (Completion year 2017)
Reactive Power Compensation World Bank Project for PHCN, installed at 32 sites 36x20MVAR, 33kV, Nigeria
EPC of Uninterrupted Power Supply Substations for Hospital 11kV/.433kV, 11x2MVA Substations, Medanta-Medicity, India
Northern Railways Projec 132/25kV Traction Substation Ramgarh, Rajasthan, India Deeg, Rajasthan, India

Gas Power vertical

Power Generation division started its pursuing in 2009 with large size DG set supply and installation at NIGELEC, Niger. Looking at natural petroleum resources in Nigeria, Skipper expanded Gas Power division as full-fledged business arm to meet power requirement of Nigeria.

1x26 MW Gas fired power plant along with gas pipeline awarded to BHEL-Skipperseil consortium in 2017 has been completed.

This project consolidated our design and engineering capabilities in Gas Power Plant and Skipper gained confidence to venture into more opportunities impotent stake holders in Nigeria.

E&M packages in DORC under client consultant EIL, are being executed with work force of more than 3000 Skilled & unskilled. Project is presently under handing over stage.

We have manpower through 360 degree review of our capabilities with these projects and enabled in to make course correction and shoulder the responsibilities of bigger. Opportunities as well as challenges.

On such case in our joint venture project with Kaduna State for relocating 2x42MW Gas Power Plant from Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) to Kaduna and commenced its effective operation from March 2024. Then project requires meticulous planning and we are sure to come out in flying colours by executing it timely.

Metering & Storage Power Division (Nigeria & Africa)

Started local manufacturing of Energy meters and Metering units, which were supplied and installed at various sites throughout Nigeria. This concept was widely appreciated as it turned out to be a source for earning more revenue for PHCN. It has also helped PHCN to efficiently monitor consumption pattern and conduct Energy Auditing & Planning for the entire country.

Skipper Metering System consists of Smart meter, Communication modules, Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) Head End System, Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and Server.

Storage power Division manufactures system, integrating solar energy of PV Panels to supply electricity on 24x7 basis with the help of conventional battery system or Li-on battery. Such systems are off-grid in the form of Solar Home Light, Solar Street Light and Micro/Mini Solar System to bring light for people in dark zones without grid electricity supply. Today’s life style demands 24x7 uninterrupted power system from the utility grid, for which, Skipper Storage Power Division has designed and engineered systems with Hybrid Inverter and successfully installed in Public Health Centres (PHC), residential areas.

Key features of such systems are as under:-

Standalone end to end “Plug and Play” solution.
Site assessment and optimal space utilization through containerised models.
Seamless integration of Inverter function with Battery Storage capacity.
In-built Protection System for safe operation.
Customer Help Center for remote assistance and trouble shooting.
Safety & Protection Devices, Lightning Arrester (LA) & GI Earthing electrode included
Our system can be tailor made as per client requirement.
Li-on or Tubular Gel type VRLA Batteries with 6-8 years of life.

Services Division (Nigeria & Africa)

GTA Engineering Nigeria Ltd. is an exclusive Service arm and provides Services & Reverse Engineering for Large Transformers, Motors and Generators & Turbines.

A Proudly Nigerian Company under Skipper T&D DMCC, commenced its operation in West Africa by setting up its base in Nigeria in 2002.
ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 Certified
West Africa's largest and one-of-its-kind Power Transformer Repair Workshop with the capability to RE-MANUFACTURING Power Transformers up to 300MVA/330kV class
Expertise in Erection, Testing and Commissioning of Power & Distribution Transformers and 400kv equipment
Expertise in preventive and productive maintenance with diagnostic equipment and tools to monitor health index of transformers for life cycle extension.
Custodian of SkipperSeil transformers supplied and commissioned in Africa region to support customer as one stop shop.
Company in Nigeria with state-of-the-art Reverse Engineering and service facility for Power Transformers up to & including 330kV system voltage
Servicing and Repairing experience of more than 500 Transformers.
GTA has Trained more than 250 Nigerian Engineers & Technicians in its 20 years of excellence.