By Silvia Nyambura
The build up to Uganda’s oil production due in 2018 warrants capacity building for the industry to avoid over-reliance on foreign skill. With this in mind, Victoria University has over the past few years trained more than 150 students under its department of petroleum and gas studies.
According to the University’s Vice Chancellor Stephen Robert Isabalija, the trained students are ready and competitive enough to work in the sector.
“The Department of Petroleum and Energy Studies at Victoria University was formed out of the need to build capacity in the extractives industry. We felt we should begin training early so that when the first barrel of oil comes out of the ground we have our people working in the fields,
