Uganda seeks Trinidad’s help on oil
Jan 15, 2009
THE Minister for Energy, Daudi Migereko, has asked Trinidad and Tobago to train Ugandans to develop her promising oil and gas sector.
By Raymond Baguma
THE Minister for Energy, Daudi Migereko, has asked Trinidad and Tobago to train Ugandans to develop her promising oil and gas sector.
Migereko was on Thursday meeting with a delegation of investors and experts in the petroleum industry from Trinidad and Tobago in the ministry’s boardroom.
“We need support in the development of human competence with skills in the areas of development of oil and gas fields, production, refining and petrochemical,†said Migereko.
The Trinidadian ambassador to Uganda, Patrick Edwards, said the eight-man delegation drawn from his country’s petroleum, energy and education sectors, would also visit Rwanda and Egypt.
Edwards said his country would like to see Uganda develop her oil and gas sector.
Earlier, the delegation met with Prof. Livingstone Luboobi, the vice-chancellor of Makerere University.
The delegation’s visit follows President Yoweri Museveni’s tour of the island nation last year and the visit by the Trinidadian prime minister to Uganda during the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Trinidad hosts this year's CHOGM.
“It is not good for Uganda to have multinational oil companies and yet we do not have local capacity to regulate them. We need to beef up on our capacity,†said Migereko.
Oliver Flax, the senior vice-president of the University of Trinidad and Tobago, said his country has over 100 years of experience in the oil and gas sector.
Flax added that Ugandans need to learn from his country on how to get a fair share out of the proceeds from the country’s oil.
Migereko said Uganda still had to work on its state of readiness as it prepares to go into full commercial oil production.
THE Minister for Energy, Daudi Migereko, has asked Trinidad and Tobago to train Ugandans to develop her promising oil and gas sector.
Migereko was on Thursday meeting with a delegation of investors and experts in the petroleum industry from Trinidad and Tobago in the ministry’s boardroom.
“We need support in the development of human competence with skills in the areas of development of oil and gas fields, production, refining and petrochemical,†said Migereko.
The Trinidadian ambassador to Uganda, Patrick Edwards, said the eight-man delegation drawn from his country’s petroleum, energy and education sectors, would also visit Rwanda and Egypt.
Edwards said his country would like to see Uganda develop her oil and gas sector.
Earlier, the delegation met with Prof. Livingstone Luboobi, the vice-chancellor of Makerere University.
The delegation’s visit follows President Yoweri Museveni’s tour of the island nation last year and the visit by the Trinidadian prime minister to Uganda during the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Trinidad hosts this year's CHOGM.
“It is not good for Uganda to have multinational oil companies and yet we do not have local capacity to regulate them. We need to beef up on our capacity,†said Migereko.
Oliver Flax, the senior vice-president of the University of Trinidad and Tobago, said his country has over 100 years of experience in the oil and gas sector.
Flax added that Ugandans need to learn from his country on how to get a fair share out of the proceeds from the country’s oil.
Migereko said Uganda still had to work on its state of readiness as it prepares to go into full commercial oil production.