The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Africa’s champion of local content development demonstrated their stand again at TWF Assembly 5.0 hosted in Uganda on the 17-19 October,2022.
TWF 5.0 focused on building welding capacity to optimize materials manufacturing across all value chain industries in Uganda & East Africa.
The hybrid event which had participants from Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Liberia, Egypt, Algeria, Zimbabwe witnessed multilateral interaction and networking towards growing welding technology in Africa to complement the growing quest effectively and efficiently for domestication and domiciliation of Africa’s energy industries.
TWF 5.0 commendably aided the formal launch of Welders Society of Uganda to grow national content in welding in Uganda. The theme, Establishing and Growing National Content in Welding also addressed fundamental issues to growing and sustaining development of welding and related capacity in Africa
Represented by Nik Odinuwe, Chairman of PETAN and TWF board member, the critical need to address all process and value chain activities that will aid the optimization of Africa’s energy potentials was highlighted in his remarks. In his words, ‘no gap should be left unattended and voids unfilled in the new drive, as Africa’s collective survival depends on this new quest’.
PETAN is pleased to be a major driver in the quest for African content development, ownership and maximization of industries workings and funding through linkage and collaboration in Africa.
It is expected that Tanzania, Mozambique, south Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and other East Africa countries will key in and follow with the drive to domicile their manufacturing industries to perfectively complement African content framework in Energy development
At SAIPEC in February 2023, PETAN looks forward to another series of rich interactions and networking in the interest of domestication of Africa’s Energy industries premised on the AFCFTA.
According to Ronald Ssezibwa of WESU, in the next 10 years Uganda hopes to have developed adequate capacity both to address local challenges and to compliment human capacity need across Africa’s integrated industries.
In the words of Ayo Adeniyi, Executive Director of TWF, “Africa does not just need skill development, there are enough skilled idle hands all over Africa. Africa needs industry solutions that will build skills, create opportunities, and sustain opportunities to keep Africa alive for all the youths of Africa.”
TWF 5.0 is in continuation of TWF sensitization and knowledge building series in manufacturing across Africa. It focused on building capacity and addressing technicality to grow economic impact through welding across Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Eritrea etc.
