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The last lot of university students from the Nigerian universities has started their industrial work experience program (Siwes) with Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (Snepco) using the opportunity to acquire knowledge and practical skills in the oil and gas sector.
The 28 internships taken from 17 universities will serve for six months and will acquire valuable information on the operations of a company that has opened the way to the development of a new generation of Nigerian professionals in the deep waters sector when it started production in Bonga in 2005.
“We are pleased to continue with the efforts to grow indigenous talents in the oil and gas operations of deep waters through the job placement program,” said the CEO of Snepco, Ronald Adams. “The program offers interesting opportunities to young talents to grow their potential in the oil and gas industry”
The interns, some of whom are also recipients of the National Petroleum Company Limited, nnpc-Snepco, have spoken of their hopes and ambitions in the regime.
Resident of Maiduguri and mechanical engineering student at the University of Maiduguri, Ayuba Haruna, who was churned out of the safety crisis in the north-east, won the prize for the scholarship NNPC-SNEPCO in 2023, and is now an intern. He said: “The investment of NNPC-Sneepco in education and young Nigerians like me not only changed my life, but gave me a purpose, the direction and the possibility of building a better future”.
“I am entering this role ready to learn, contribute and be part of something truly bigger than me,” said Kester Chukwumezie, an electronic and computer engineering student at the NNNAMDI AzikiWe University.
Two interns, Miss Ulan Andrew and Joseph Agom, were beneficiaries of the NNPC-SNEPCO national cradle for career and university scholarships. Miss Andrew, who is studying chemical engineering at the University of Ilorin, described the internship as “truly a dream that has become reality and the opportunity of a lifetime”. Joseph, an engineering student Mechatronics at the University of Port Harcourt, said: I am deeply grateful to be a long -term investment product of Shell in education and now part of the learning of the next generation from the best. “
Another intern, Miss Oluwehinmi OluwayEMISI, an industrial/computer mathematics student at Covenant University, OTA, Ogun State, expressed gratitude for the “extraordinary opportunities” offered by the program.
The scheme of industrial work experience of students is only an aspect of investments in education by NNPC snepco and co-seller, which include premiums of scholarships and donation of communication and technology structures (Tic) to the tertiary institutions.
Over 600 university students have benefited from the NNPC-SNEPCO National University Scholarship Award award since its institution in 2016, while 32 ICT projects have been donated to secondary schools and universities throughout the country since 2007.
