A team of officials from Ugandan National Oil Company (UNOC), yesterday, toured oil facilities in the Niger Delta region, seeking to collaborate with Nigeria in many areas of the oil industry.
They said that they were particularly interested in learning benchmarks on human resources and capacity building in the oil sector, as well as how Nigeria ran its oil sector for many years, remaining afloat.
The Ugandan team, comprising four senior officials of UNOC, who were led by officials of Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), visited key oil facilities in Delta State, including the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, before leaving for Bayelsa State in continuation of their assignment.
According to NCDMB’s General Manager, Midstream, Tassalla Tersugh, they received a letter from Uganda National Oil Company for a visit to Nigeria to collaborate and exchange ideas on the oil and gas sector, which Nigeria has expertise in.
Tersugh said that the board identified PTI as a very important stakeholder in oil and gas manpower development and brought the officials from Uganda to explore the facility.
PTI’s Director of Research and Development, Dr. Tina Isichei, lectured the delegation on critical aspects of the oil and gas sector, positing that Nigeria and Africa must develop their own unique ways of exploring oil and gas, different from the way the West does it.
