EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, PTDF HOSTS VICE CHANCELLORS OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES—EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGIC AGENDA The full compliment of Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities in Nigeria was hosted to a meeting/ interactive session by the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Dr Bello Aliyu Gusau today (11/04/17) where he discussed the new strategic agenda that will [...]
PRESS RELEASE PTDF STREAMLINES SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO THE MANPOWER NEEDS OF INTERNATIONAL, LOCAL AND NATIONAL OIL COMPANIES. The Petroleum Technology Development Fund will henceforth interface with oil and gas industry players in implementing its capacity building programmes. Although the Fund is mandated to build capacity strictly for the oil and gas industry, it has over [...]
PTDF HOSTS 2017 OLOIBIRI LECTURE SERIES Petroleum Technology Development Fund hosts the 2017 Annual Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum as part of its strategic partnership with practitioners in the oil and gas industry, the forum provides a platform for oil and gas professionals to deliberate on current global realities in the industry. The theme [...]
SPE SEEK INCREASED COLLABORATION WITH PTDF The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has registered its appreciation for the various support and sponsorship offered by the association by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in the execution of its various programmes. It also seeks for increased collaboration with the Fund to help make oil and gas [...]
DR GUSAU RECEIVES ASSOCIATION OF ENERGY ECONOMICS…reiterates closer engagement with bodies, associations within the oil industry Executive Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Dr Bello Aliyu Gusau is determined to forge closer engagement between PTDF and various bodies and associations within the oil and gas industry to facilitate effective manpower development in the sector. The [...]
EXCELLENCE IN SCHOLARSHIP By Kalu Otisi Ibrahim Labaran Bashar is a PhD scholar under the sponsorship of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). His research work acclaimed globally to be novel and capable of breaking new grounds in engineering soils and rocks, stands him out as a scholar of Excellence. During the recent monitoring visit [...]
PRESS RELEASE EXPLORING NEW OPTIONS FOR TRAINING OF PTDF SCHOLARS With the successful institution of educational partnership and collaboration agreements with universities in Brazil, France and Germany, leading to a tuition free regime for Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) scholars, the Fund is exploring the possibility of not only extending such collaborations to top universities [...]
PRESS RELEASE ROLL OUT OF 2017/2018 PTDF SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME The process for the award of the 2017/2018 PTDF scholarship scheme, both local and overseas, has commenced with the invitation of applications from suitably qualified candidates. The scholarships which are in MSc and PhD categories will be awarded for studies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, [...]
PTDF TRAINS MORE NIGERIANS IN ADVANCED WELDING PROCESSES Nigeria has taken a step forward towards attaining self-sufficiency in the required manpower for all welding processes for the oil and Gas industry and allied sub-sectors. This is as a result of the progress made by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund in the creation of the relevant [...]
PRESS RELEASE NEW PTDF LEADERSHIP INSPECTS INTERVENTION PROJECTS IN PTI, EFFURUN, WARRI DELTA STATE The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) is under a new leadership and going by his first engagement on assumption of duty there is a renewed emphasis on proper implementation and delivery of PTDF Institutional capacity development projects, spread across the country. [...]
