The baseless idea of Mauritanians don’t exist in the field of Oil & Gas and the terrible mistake that many contractors/subcontractors committed during the GTA phase-1 development are among the questionable failure of local content.
I am not sure what drive several companies involved during the project development or even during later time in the operation to have the idea of lack of training or skills for locals (Mauritanians) to be part of the project.
1- Mauritania does have engineers in every displine ( Process, Mechanicals, Instrumentation, Electrical, Project Managements, HSE, Maritime, Finanace, others).
2- Mauritania does have local companies able to do welding, NDT, Logistics, other services related to supply bases).
3- Mauritania does have geologists, Geophysist, reservoir, subsea engineers, staffs who join drillings onshore and offshore and knows the basins and prospects well.
What is the objective of project of GTA that has overshooting budget to a staggering number of $ 10 Billions if simple job creation are not achieve for Mauritanians?
4- Check the manpower rate & cost and do tell me how many Mauritanians made it to have a salary or return from this budget?!
As Mauritanian, we see the common insterst of everyone in GTA but there are our interests that should be preserved in short in long terms and recruitments of locals are right to everyone from fresh graduate to experienced and all should adher to value adding and knowledge sharing in order to develop the local expertise.
The remarks were adressed during the recent visit from MPME and it is clear no one is happy about it.
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