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Getting the future of energy ready

Total places great importance in the access to quality education and the development of skills. As in every host country we support young women and men’s education and training, Total in Angola has also chosen this path to assure the energetic future. This is why we created open spaces to debate the world’s concerns for finding accessible and cleaner energy with future engineers, experts and decision-makers.

The appropriate forum to debate the future

From high schools and universities to even professional schools, Total in Angola is supporting the training of young future professionals by channeling its experiences and know-how. In partnership with local educational institutions like UAN[i] and ISPTEC[ii], INP[iii], Eiffel Schools and Academia Sonangol, conferences, seminars or workshops were organized. Proven professionals and teachers from Total Professeurs Associés lectured on specific courses like Seismic geomorphology and exploration, Structural interpretation of seismic data, Micropaleontology as well as Remote sensing technologies for oil industries was presented along with high profile current topics, with emphasis on practical and applied aspects.

 

Industry, science and university together

In order to actively participate in the development of skills, Total in Angola is supporting technicians from the Geographic Engineering lab of UAN by financing the acquisition of a photogrammetric station to train them to use digital photos and satellite images to create high precision maps. It has also financed a seismograph for the Geophysics lab to conduct research on the subsoil and an apparatus to make narrow polished samples for the Geology lab. In addition, two Angolan teachers, one from INP and the other from ISPTEC, participated in the Total Summer School in 2014 and yet another from INP took part in 2016. Five teachers from ISPTEC were also granted scholarships for Master’s Degrees, while others students at different levels of universities or institutes of higher education are studying in Brazil, Burkina Faso, France, Portugal, South Africa and the United States under Total scholarships.

Over 30 years of a winning cooperation

Out of a total number of 55 students under a Total in Angola scholarship, 65% are studying in universities in Africa.

Our cooperation with UAN started in the 80’s, with the arrival of French teachers for the Geosciences department to teach at the Sciences faculty, and it continues today with the support of two Master trainees. Many students who have graduated from UAN are now working for Total in Angola or for the Group as expatriates. The future of energy depends on having the right people with the appropriate training in the right place. That’s why Total is fully committed to Education.

 

[i] Agostinho Neto University, the major State university

[ii] Polytechinic Higher Institute of Technologies and Sciences, the only State higher institute specialized in oil and gas training

[iii]  National Oil Institute, secondary school specialized in Oil and Gas

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