Warri is a town in Delta state, Southern Nigeria with a population of 303,417 people, lies along the Warri River in western Niger River deita, 30 miles (48km) upstream from the port of Forcados on the Bight of Benin.

Over the years,Warri has grown to become the political and trading capital of the Itsekiri kingdom.

Aside from being a commercial/ market centre for local produce as well as having a seaport sited there, the town assumed National economic importance with the discovery of natural gas and petroleum in the area. A petroleum Training Institute opened there in 1972, and in 1978 Warri became the site of Nigeria’s second petroleum refinery. At nearby Aladja, an integrated steel plant, designed to make Warri one of the leading steel centers in the country, opened in 1981.

WARRI AT A GLANCE
Population growth at 2.38% annually
Industries Operating in include
• Oil and Gas 79 (19%)
• Hospitality 74 (19%)
• Financial services 29(7%)
• Technology 17 (4%)
• Hardware 56 (14%)
• Building and construction 79 (20%)
• Education, print & knowledge 66 (17%)

INFRASTRUTURE
Rail and Road
• Good road networks, but further improvement is planned by Delta State Government.
• Major Highways traverse the city thus providing access to major commercial centers.
• Improvement of external access is planned with the dualisation of Effurun Port Harcourt road.
• Airport
• Seaport

DELTA STATE-AN OVERVIEW
Delta state is Nigeria’s 2nd largest oil producing state with a population of 4.3 million people (2008 estimate)comprising of mainly igbo(Anioma people), Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri. The whole ethnic- groups that comprise the Delta are administrativel grouped into three senatorial districts namely ; Delta North, Delta South, and Delta Central for easy administrative purposes.

Delta state, situated in the Niger delta region of Nigeria, covers a land mass of 18,050sq km with 40 % of it being water. By virtue of her citing , she is the gateway to the eastern part of the country.

The state’s capital city Asaba is located at the northern end of the state with an estimated area of 762sq. km while Warri is the economic nerve of the state and also most populated.

ECONOMY
Oil and Gas
70% of State GSP, 30% of National GDP.
Establishment of gas master plan.
Agriculture
12% of GSP
Delta Agricutural Development Programme (DADP) to accelerate the development of Agriculture.
Fiscal
3rd largest state economy in Nigeria
4th largest recipient of Federal Government allocation.
Manufacturing
2nd largest manufacturing base in Nigeria, contributing 29.5% of the countr’s manufacturing GDP.
Infrastructure
State has 4 ports including the Warri seaport
Plans to improve connectivity of roads and construction of new ones
A 1.8km runway and 2km wide domestic airport located in Osubi.

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
As it is expected a richly blessed state, investment opportunities and partnership are abound in the different economic sectors of the state.

AGRICULTURE
Palm oil: Production of fatty oil used in paint and soap manufacture ; production of palmwine for export trade to European market ; and distilling of gin from raffia and oil palm wine.
Rubber: production of items such as belts, pipes, mats, auto accessories, shoe heels and soles, seal washers and bungs.
Cassava: production of industrial starch.
Maize: Establishment of feed mills
Fruits and Vegetables: processing for fruit juice and tomato puree.
Fish: In fishing industries, opportunities exist for establishment of textile and equipment industry, manufacturing of fishing nets, boat building and canning industries.
Timber: Projects for investment using timber include: the production of chip board or particle board, toilet rolls and corrugated boards for packaging, small toys, tooth picks, pegs, spoons , ice cream sticks and straw matting for packing. It also includes the production of pre fabricated housing units.

MINERAL BASED INDUSTRIES
Products from mineral based industries also provide wide opportunities for investment . The products are glasses, carbon black, polypropylene, gas and steel billets respectively. Specific projects with good investment potential includes;
Glass: Glass bottles for beverages and brewery industries; premaldyhyde Resin: used in the ply wood industries;
Steel billets: The linkage industries that can attract investments are foundry and die- casting ; prefabrication industries for the supply of spare parts required in automobile industries, rolling mills and flat mills.

Oil Refining: Investment opportunities contigent upon refining and ancillary activities include establishment of industries for the following industrial and food grade solvents: insecticides, cosmetics mineral oil, petroleum jelly, greases, bituminous based water/damp proof building materials such as floor tiles, rubber products ,tarpaulins, etc; asphalt storage, packaging and blending plants to handle products for export and local use.
Carbon black and polypropylene from petrochemical industries at Ekpan: The carbon black would be required for the establishment of industries for the manufacture of tyres, rubber products, pigment printing inks , etc.
Existing mineral based industries in Delta state are Bendel Glass Factory (ughelli) Delta Glass Company (ughelli) Oil refinery (Warri), Petro chemical plant (Ekpan) and Delta steel company (Aladja)

OIL AND GAS
Gas Industry: Opportunities exist for the establishment of industries for the extraction of solvents for both domestic and export markets and the manufacture of fertilizer: for Liquifed Natural Gas (LNG), opportunities exist for pipe laying, pipe coating , inspection and numerous process related activities as well as maritime operations.

Oil exploration activities: Opportunities exist for surveying , such as geodetic control establishment and sea bottom survey :civil works covering preparation of drilling location ; seismic data acquisition and interpretation ;geological and geochemical studies.
Crude oil Transportation and Storage:
Investment opportunities exist for the construction and maintenance of crude oil storage tanks and pipelines. In exploration and production, NNPC constantly considers requests from investors interested in the acquisition of acreages for hydrocarbon exploration, and the subsequent development and operation of such fields.

Warri Industrial Business Park

LAND
WIBP will offer prime- grade and site developed plots in variety of sizes that will be capable of catering for the needs of medium to large scale facilities involved in light industry and manufacturing operations . A strategic location and efficient layout supported by appropriate facilities and services, will enable businesss owners propagate a hassle free operation while stabilizing their relationships with their host community.

READY BUILT FACTORIES (RBFs)/ BUILT – TO- SUIT FACILITIES
Warri Industrial Business Park serves the high demand for completed factory buildings or warehouses for lease to foreign and local companies who want to immediately establish their operations in the industrial park so as to support the business activities/ needs of locators inside the park. These companies have immediate requirements for space due to limited time for the construction of their facilities or would want to minimize investments in fixed assets (land and building). WIPB’s leasable factory buildings cater to the needs of the back-end business of various industries (assembly and contract manufacturing ) and support / allied industries.. This will allow the suppliers or partners of multinational and local companies to be located near their customers, an important requirement to enhance the coordination between buyers and suppliers. WIPB also offers end to end solutions from design to construction of specific types of facilities (light-industrial, manufacturing , business process outsourcing, etc.) that can be tailor fitted to specific business needs.

INFRASTRUCTURE, FACILITIES, SERVICES
POWER
A dedicated power station will be built inside the park exclusively to cater for the power needs of the WIBP. By receiving transmitted electricity directly from unprecedented high voltage line, locators can benefit low flunctuating and stable power supply.
Supply from the national grid will also be tapped to act as backup source.Furthermore, the park is designed to have underground power distribution grid systems, which help avoid power failure during inclement weather while improving the park’s landscape.

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
The telecommunication industry has undergone great changes over recent years . Increasingly, users are using more and more data than voice for their communications. Going by this development, international direct distance dial telephone, facsimile,broadband and data transmission services from copper wire , wireless and underground fiber- optic facilities will be available inside the park.

Telecommunication services within the park will consist of the following;
• Voice
• Broadband
• Data network
• VSAT
• Mobile communications
• Wi-Fi, WiMax facilities
• WLAN/LAN
• IPTV
• Road traffic management and surveillance cameras- The telecommunications infrastructure can be extended also to meet such needs.

WATER SUPPLY
WIBP will supply all the fresh water needs of its locators by constructing water treatment plants whose main influents will be water from creeks, surface water and groundwater.
The park’s industrial water needs will be supplied from strategically located deep wells through a centralized distribution system backed up by standby generators inside the park .Water for fire fighting will be distributed through independent networks. untreated water from boreholes will be pumped directly to the distribution system.

SEWERAGE SYSTEM
WIPB has a centralized sewerage collection and treatment for industrial and domestic waste.
Human waste from all the development will be discharged to the proposed sewerage treatment plant and treated in compliance with environmental requirements.

ROAD NETWORK
WIPB is designed to the offer the widest concrete road system in the country. The road network generally comprises three main categories of roads. The roads are to be sufficiently but not excessively sloped to facilitate gravity flow of the surface runoff across the road. Both sides of the roads within the park will be provided with pedestrian walkways and street lighting.

DRAINAGE
The drainage system within the park will be developed based on the design rainfall intensity of the area and these will cater for the surface runoff within the park by solely gravity flow.
There shall be two drainage hierarchies with the park and they are;
• Secondary drains (closed drains)to collect surface runoff from the overland flow.
• Primary drains (larger closed drains) to receive flow from the secondary drains.
Drain sizing will be designed by the following design parameters:
• Peak Runoff
• Discharge Capacity
• Flow Speed in Drains

ECO- PARK
One of WIPB’s major thrusts is environment protection and management .A key feature of the park is going to be its strategically located eco-park that will be home to diversity of indigenous flora, fruit trees, birds and small animals. The eco-park is designed to have trekking trails, which will cater for both the physical an d relaxation purposes of the park’s inhabitants.

MULTI- PURPOSE COURT
A court will be located inside the park and this will be the venue for different sports and recreational activities like Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Badminton, Darts and Table Tennis. it may also be leased for different company activities and events.

SERVICE SUPPORT BUILDING (SSB)
The service support will house WIBP’S own fire truck and ambulance with 24-hr stand by fire Brigade Team to answer health/medical, fire and other types of emergencies.

HOTEL
WIBP will be the location for hoteliers to open up new branches. This will provide lodging and meeting facilities for locators, their guests and technical staff as well as business and family/ leisure travelers around the area.

RESTAURANTS
Going by WIBP’S population diversity, speciality restaurants will be located inside the park so as to cater for the food nees of the expatriate as well as local community inside the park.

TARGETED INDUSTRIES
WIBP is designed to be a home to a variety of industries and operations which will not be limited to the following
• Manufacturing
• Steel
• Plastics
• Engineering
• Oil and gas
• Phamaceuticals
• Petrochemical
• Maritime
• Infrastructure services
• Oil and gas servicing
• Finance

WARRI INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS PARK
ADVANTAGES
Accesibility
Warri Industrial Business park’s (WIBP) accessibility to commercial and trading centers in Nigeria is one of its distinct advantages. Located in Warri, an oil rich city in Delta State, Nigeria, this region has over the years become known for its ability to attract significant numbers of Global/ Forign investors and investments such as shell, Chevron,British Petroleum among others. Thus, the ongoing government initiated economic and infrastructural development projects will go a long way in positioning Warri as the preferred location for new business investment in Africa.
Attractive Lease Cost.

In comparison to most industrial parks in the world, WIBP’s cost per squre foot will enable its tenants maintain and increa their bottom line.
Contract Flexibility.

Warri industrial Business park recognizes the current economic environment and as a result of this, it tries to adapt its lease contrcts to support the requirements of its potential tenants.

Business Friendly Environment
Warri Industrial Business Park is designed to be the preferred choice for global business interaction and a friendly business environment for investors and tenants. WIBP’s business friendly environment will provide the following;
• Reliable and good quality power
• Green nature environment
• Good supporting services
• Fully wired and connected to the internet
• Security
Relatively stable labour
Well developed infrastructure; including telecommunications, roads, seaports and airports.
Sound Legal and economic framework for foreign investment (complies with WTO).

FEATURES OF WIBP
• Competitive Development cost
• Plots of land available for long leases
• Industrial lease
• Office Land lease
• Commercial Building lease
• Pre-built units and common facilities available for a variety of uses
• Gate access with on site security (24hour electronic surveillance)
• Full complement of infrastructure including a state of the art telecommunication system
• Immediate access to major highways to Warri Port, Osubi Airport and highway linkages to Benin , Ughelli,, Asaba and port Harcourt
• Design control to maintain the quality of development of the park.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Warri Industrial Business park’s goal as a service oriented park is to enable hassle free operations right from statutory clearance, construction and throughout the operation of your business in the park.As a result of this, our infrastructural facilities and amenities are intended to provide worldclass services such as;
• Uninterrupted power supply directly from the grid
• 100% up-time on power with a 110KV substation
• Abundant supply of potable water from both ground water &surface water sources
• Dedicated telephone exchange
• Cable and satellite links
• High quality internal road system of primary, secondary and local distribution roads
• Solid waste disposal system
• Sewage treatment plant
• Efficient storm water drainage system
• On site Gas supply
• Water treatment plant to treat water to WHO standards
• Friendly and flexible policies.

OTHER AMENTIES
• Logistics centre
• Medical centre
• Training centre
• Bus station
• Fuel station
• Guest house
• Club house
• Post Office
• Fire station
• Shopping malls
• Hotels and Restaurants
• Health Club
• Gymnasium
• Banks
• Insurance houses
• Central Excise &Customs Offices