Yabatech Launches Institute Of Petroleum
Technology
The Yaba College of Technology on Wednesday
inaugurated an Institute of Petroleum
Technology (IPT), in a bid to address the
shortage of local manpower in the oil and gas
sector.
Mr Ross Agazuma, the Chairman, Global
Maritime West Africa Ltd., said at the
inauguration that the partnership would
produce world class professional technicians
for offshore, mining, petroleum and related
industry.
The college had in 2013 signed a tripartite
memorandum agreement with the Global
Maritime West Africa Ltd. and Society for
Underwater Technology.
The institute is to provide energy education
with special reference to technology and
related disciplines through effective teaching
and learning in the college.
Agazuma said that academic activities at the
institute was structured into six faculties,
comprising five centres namely Oil and Gas
Technology Centre, Offshore Technology
Centre, Centre for Risk and Safety
Technology.
Others are Pipeline Technology Centre and
Energy and Technology Business Management
Centre.
He said;
Agazuma added that the institute would be
the only institution that focus on specialised
engineering technicians with business
management in West African sub-region.
The Chairman of the occasion, Mr Henry
Okoro, in his speech, said that the institute
would provide technical certificate to the
highest level in the oil and gas.
Okoro urged the Federal Government to
invest more in skilled manpower and take it
seriously to bring about meaningful
development.
“The mandate of this institute is
to train technical professional
capable of finding and extracting
minerals, oil and gas from
earth’s crust and processing
them into useful products.
“The institute will promote
knowledge through active
research and publication of
research outcomes and provide
professional services to the
national and international
communities,”
“ ”
“Our mandate goes beyond our
country to West Africa sub-
region and to the whole Africa.
Consequently, we have set our
vision to become a centre of
excellence in Nigeria and Africa
for conducting cutting-edge
research and for producing
world-class professionals.
“It is well established that
development and civilisation are
directly dependant on the
products of petroleum mining;
every human activity uses tools
which are products of petroleum
and mining.
“We build our houses, make our
farms, construct our roads,
dams, factories using equipment
made of metals and materials
which are products of mining.
Without mining, there can be no
development. This is the main
reason why any nation that has
mineral resources is considered
to be potentially rich,” he said.
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