Addressing Skills Shortage and Underperformance In East African Oil and Gas

When we talk about the skills shortage, people think it refers to a lack of people willing to work in the oil and gas industry.

But this is only a challenge in some parts of the oil and gas producing world.

The oil and gas industry is attractive careers for East Africans

If you were a young man in Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, and East Africa, your whole family will be happy if you get a job in the oil and gas industry because they know it is prosperity, traveling the world, money and full blown medical insurance for them and the families.

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The skills shortage refers to a lack of enough skills, knowledge, and expertise to deliver higher productivity, innovation and performance standards needed.

The oil and gas industry is an industry in which operational safety, productivity, and performance are paramount.

What happens if we don’t have enough people to deliver the productivity and high-performance standard needed?

We are going to increase overall operation cost, we are going to delay productions and we are going to have a few local leaders of the oil and gas industry to shift the industrialization. And whole East African oil and gas industry will become less profitable.

Tanzania Petroleum is working on something to address this. One of my biggest goals of Tanzania petroleum is for us to be the knowledge body of the East African oil and gas industry, raise the performance standards of workforce competence of Tanzania and East African oil and gas industry to become world-class and internally competitive.