Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil
A shortage of trained oil and gas workers in East Africa is slowing development of new fields following a series of major discoveries and may force governments to relax rules requiring companies to employ local people.
Governments are now investing in programmes to train skilled oil and gas workers, but they are hampered by weak education systems and the high costs involved.
Rolake Akinkugbe, head of energy research at Ecobank, said it would take
No comments:
Post a Comment