National Energy takes study tours online

THE NATIONAL Energy Corporation recently hosted a virtual internship for six Guyanese students enrolled at the University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus' MSc Petroleum Engineering programme.

A release from National Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Gas Company (NGC), said the initiative was driven by National Energy Guyana and demonstrated the NGC Group’s commitment to “shaping the regional energy sector through knowledge transfer and the contribution of technical expertise.”

The interns took online what were originally planned to be in-person study tours and the virtual sessions were conducted by subject-matter experts across a wide range of natural gas-related topics, including pipeline engineering; design and measurement; natural gas contracts; information technology and commercial arrangements, employing the expertise resident within the NGC Group.

It is also one of several initiatives being developed by the NGC Group to partner with universities in several areas along the gas value chain, including investments in research and development, energy efficiency and renewables, green reporting and climate action, the release said.

For the online study tour, the interns worked in smaller groups and developed projects, which focused on the optimisation of natural gas to benefit the citizens of Guyana.

Group one focused on the use of natural gas for power generation, while group two concentrated on the use of natural gas for light industrial consumers, the release added.

The programme ended on September 4 with a presentation by the students to an online panel, that comprised senior faculty from the UWI’s petroleum studies unit.

On 10 March, National Energy and the UWI St Augustine signed a memorandum of understanding, under which National Energy would facilitate study tours in TT for Guyanese Because of covid19 travel restrictions, National Energy, together with the companies of the NGC Group, collaborated on a redesigned internship programme for online delivery for 2020, the release explained.