Nigeria’s PTDF Introduces Research Grant
By Helen Shok Jok, Abuja
The
Nigerian Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, has introduced an
annual Oil and Gas Research Grant competition.
The Executive Secretary of PTDF, Alhaji
Kabir Mohammed, said the research grant was initiated to complement the
already established endowment Programmes of the Fund.
He said the grant competition was
designed in such a way that only the best research proposals that had
the capability of influencing oil and gas activities in country would be
selected for funding.
The Executive Secretary made this
disclosure at the first screening workshop for the grant competition
which opens in Abuja, Nigeria.
Value Added
According to Alhaji Mohammed through the
competition, the fund would be able to support Nigerians who had good
research ideas that would help technological development in the oil and
gas sector of the economy.
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