The President of the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) and chief executive officer, Danvic Petroleum International Corporation Dr. Afe Mayowa has said enabling environment is the key to collaborative efforts in the Oil and Gas Industry.
In a chat with Shipping Position Daily last week, the Danvic boss said government need to provide an enabling environment that will help oil companies, trainers associations and institution to carry out their research effectively.
According to him, “Government is to ensure that you have an enabling environment for every operation to be useful. Chevron cannot collaborate with the University of Ibadan if the environment for chevron to do their business is not there.
“There should be some tax concession to companies that are sponsoring research in universities. There should be some form of tax holiday that will help them to do more
“For instance in developed nations, if you sponsor anything charity, what they do is that the money is tax free. It encourages you to do more because you know that you will get some of the things that you are doing tax-free. An enabling environment is a key and the government should be able to provide it”
He hinted that OGTAN is bent on training and carrying out research that will be of great benefit to the country, thereby creating platforms for people to be able to express themselves.
“Recently, we had an event that we call education summit where we brought stakeholders together. Some of these things we can start by talking. We have a communiqué we have developed which we are giving to government, ministry of education and everyone concerned.
“We are having technical business meetings. We are creating platforms for people to be able to express themselves.”
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