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March 11, 2016
Local petroleum engineers advised to develop expertise
Accra, Oct. 4, Ghanadot/GNA- Local petroleum engineers have
been challenged to develop their expertise in order to
survive the scramble over jobs with their foreign
counterparts in the country's emerging oil exploration.
Mr. Ernest Johnson, a US based engineer who made the call,
said the country must therefore take a firm stand through
internal agreements to secure employment for the local
people, if Ghana could get the best out of the oil resource.
Mr. Johnson was speaking at an inaugural ceremony of the
Regional Maritime Academy and the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology students' chapters of the Society
of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in Accra on Saturday.
The students' chapters have been formed to promote
information sharing among students and provide a platform to
enhance their technical and professional competence in the
petroleum sector.
Mr. Johnson therefore urged the students to be mindful of
the competition that other foreign professionals might
bring, stressing foreign investors might prefer working with
their own people.
He urged the students to gather enough confidence to succeed
in their career and opt for global high- level competencies
and specialisation.
Crusader Ing. Robert Woode, Chairman for the Centre for
Technology Driven Economic Development, who presented a
paper on "Challenges and Opportunities in the Oil Industry"
asked the students to tap potentials in the solar energy.
He said this was because, research had established that five
and half hours of sunlight generated into solar energy had
the potential to meet a year's energy needs of the whole
world.
Ing. Woode also mentioned that wind power, biofuels, palm
oil, vegetable oil , cocoa dry beans and sorghum, all
contained elements that could generate power for the country
instead of solely relying on crude oil.
Mr. Issaac Aduhene Opoku, President of the Regional Maritime
Academy chapter called on government to consider the
interest of the youth, especially those pursuing courses in
the oil sector.
GNA
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