1 NAPE-UAP Capacity Building: Giving back to the roots Afe Mayowa Chairman, NAPE-UAP & Managing Director, Danvic Concepts International (Nigeria) Ltd

2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION NAPE: Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists Membership: Consist of persons involved in the applications of geosciences and related engineering disciplines both in the oil and gas industry and the academia

3 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Main Objective: Advance the geosciences, especially as they relate to petroleum resources; to disseminate information relating to geosciences and the associated disciplines. Promote the technology of exploring for, exploiting, and producing Petroleum To foster the spirit of scientific research throughout its membership

4 University Assistance Programme (UAP) Founded in 1999 in response to the noticeable decline in the standard of Geoscience education in Nigeria Main Objective: To complement the effort of the Universities, States and Federal Government to maintain established educational standard. " To contribute substantially to the continuous improvement of educational among Higher Institutions and Oil/Mining Industries.

5 Institutions In Collaboration with NAPE National Universities Commission (NUC) Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) AAPG NMGS/ COMEG

6 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Co-ordinators North west North central North east Prof P.M Zaborski (ABU) Prof.S.Akande (Unilorin) Dr. Emeo Okepare (FUTY) South west (i) South south (I) South east Prof.J.S.Ojo (FUTA) Prof. M.Oti (Uniport) Prof.M.Onuoha, FNAPE (UNN) South west (ii) South south (ii) Prof. T.Ajayi (OAU) Dr.Solomon Abaa (Uniben) Sub-Committee Chairs: Prof. Olayinka (Distinguished Lecturers Program, Prof.E. Ekweozor, FNAPE ( Visiting Lecturers Program) (VLP), Dr Ayolabi, (Data Management Programme) (DMP), Mr wasiu Odufisan (UAP Grants-In-Aid) Chairman: Afe Mayowa Advisory Board Chair: Dr. Kingsley Ojoh, FNAPE

7 IDENTIFIED INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES low level of funding limited access to ICT infrastructure and equipment Lack of basic teaching & research infrastructure Loss of quality academic staff Explosive student population increase Poor background of university entrants Declining field work/ practical experience incessant power outage

8 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS Provision of field equipment, books, bus….. Prof. Emofurieta (UniBen) receiving the key to the bus from ExxonMobil rep. Dr. T. Najime (ABU) receiving the key to the bus from ExxonMobil rep.

9 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS Refresher Fieldwork for lecturers

10 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS Refresher Fieldwork for lecturers

11 Mini-Conference List of host universities so far: FUTA (2002) FUTO (2004) ABU (2006) UNICAL (2008) UNILORIN (2010) Cross section of some university lecturers at the 2008 Mini-Conference PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS 2008 best student presenter making her presentation

12 Universities- industry linkage Leadership Forum Sabbatical Student Industrial attachment Carrier talks PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

13 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS Teaching assistance from Oil & Gas industry Provision of ICT and software infrastructure Grants-in-Aids Publication of geological excursion field guidebooks

14 AAPG/NAPE collaborations Imperial Barrel Award. FUTA won the first edition in Africa & 7 th position in the world in San Antonio OAU won 2009 edition in Africa and going to represent Africa in Denver Colorado this week Refresher Fieldwork for lecturers Field Immersion programme for students (8 students going to Idiana September 6-16 ExxonMobil supporting Nigeria Universities with $2million dollars annually (Total, Agip, Chevron, Schlumberger, Halliburton etc) Leadership forum yearly Old Students Associations

15 INSTITUTIONCONTACT PERSON Adekunle Ajasin Uni. Akungba Akoko, Ogun StateMr. A.M. Adeleye ABU ZariaProf Peter Zaborski Delta State UniversityDr. Tony Akpoborie DSU will receive 3 workstations from Shell in June and OD on each workstation FUT AkureProf J.S Ojo FUTA will receive 3 workstations from Shell in June and OD on each workstation Uni CalabarProf Aniekan Edet UNICAL will receive 3 workstations from Shell in June and OD on each workstation University Of IbadanProf Olayinka Idowu UI will receive 3 workstations from Shell in June and OD on each workstation Uni IlorinProf R.B Bale UNILORIN will receive 3 workstations from Shell in June and OD on each workstation Uni JosDr. E. C Ashano Covenant University, Ogun State Crawford UniversityProf Fayose Nnamdi Azi. Uni. AwkaA.G Onwuemesi University of Lagos, AkokaDr. Ayolabi Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile IfeProf J.I Nwachukwu OUA has received 3 workstations from Shell and 12 OD licenses from dGB Uni BeninProf. W.O. Emofurieta University of Nigeria NnsukkaProf K.M Mosto UNN has received 3 workstations from Shell and 6 OD licenses from dGB University of Port HarcourtDr. V. U Ukaegbu PTDF TO SPONSOR TRAINING FOR 2 LECTURERS FROM EACH UNIVERSITY HARDWARE TO BE PROVIDED BY SHELL FOR 12 UNIVERSITIES COST OF SOFTWARE EUROS 175,000.00

16 NEXT PHASE Promote practical collaboration between the universities & Oil & Gas industry with respect to research collaboration

17 Conclusion We believed as an organisation that for Nigeria and Nigerian universities to attain the necessary educational standard equal to other parts of the world, appropriate fees must be charged.

18 Distinguished Professors Thank you for listening.