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The roots of local content issues – government
- 6 January 2025
- Posted by: Trudi Stevens
- Category: energy excellence
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Without understanding the roots of local content issues we cannot find a path that leads us to nation building. Local content is one of the builders of that path.
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Local content – why it doesn’t work
- 31 December 2024
- Posted by: Trudi Stevens
- Category: energy excellence
Local Content Policies (LCPs) – making international companies contribute to the development of the country whose resources they are extracting – what is not to like? Employing local people, using local suppliers, buying local food, materials, equipment, vehicles – why would any self respecting international company not do that?
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The apprenticeship system and how it builds capacity in a developing economy
- 16 September 2024
- Posted by: Trudi Stevens
- Category: energy excellence
The apprenticeship system creates a workforce to support the growth of the economy of a nation. Its goal is to build the capacity of the engines of economic growth – education and industrialisation.
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Exploring Uganda’s oil & gas projects in Albertine region
- 22 August 2024
- Posted by: Denis Ssemanda
- Category: energy excellence
The Tilenga project, located in Uganda’s Buliisa and Nwoya districts near Lake Albert, is operated by TotalEnergies in partnership with CNOOC and UNOC. The name “Tilenga” combines the local names for the Uganda Kob: “Til” in Acholi and “Engabi” in Lugungu. This project involves developing six oil fields.
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Much more Gas, much less Coal!
- 23 July 2024
- Posted by: David Bamford
- Category: energy excellence
To celebrate US Independence Day, Thunder Said Energy (TSE) aka Rob West produced a very insightful analysis of global emissions performance as compared with the US’s US: CO2 emissions
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Decarbonising the Gas Grid – Regulation vs Investment?
- 18 July 2024
- Posted by: David Bamford
- Category: energy excellence
This graphic is a detailed summary of a recently concluded EMPIR project “Decarbonising the Gas Grid”, co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the EMPIR Participating States. This is a verbatim description of the intent:
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Living with CBAM!
- 8 July 2024
- Posted by: David Bamford
- Category: energy excellence
The European Union has reached a provisional agreement on its slowly emergent emissions legislation, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from its domestic industries. To protect these industries from higher carbon regimes elsewhere….
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Much ado about landfills
- 21 June 2024
- Posted by: David Bamford
- Category: energy excellence
Landfills are a major source of methane because organic waste such as food, garden waste etc goes into landfills; when a landfill is ‘capped’ with a membrane and/or a thin layer of clay, this organic waste enters an anaerobic state and generates methane.
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Unlocking energy potential: oil and gas in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 10 June 2024
- Posted by: David Bamford
- Category: energy excellence
Sub-Saharan Africa is a region rich in natural resources, particularly oil and gas. However, it is also a region that faces significant energy poverty.
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Exclusive environment social governance (ESG) training for League of East African Directors
- 16 May 2024
- Posted by: Denis Ssemanda
- Category: energy excellence
In April 2024, a group of esteemed directors gathered at the Sheraton Hotel Kampala for an insightful Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) training session.
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