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- Title
If you build it they will come: Angola's homegrown approach to post-graduate oil and gas instruction.
- Authors
Nadorff, Norman J.; Serra Van-Dunem, José Octávio
- Abstract
Governments, oil companies and universities frequently pay lip service to such noble concepts as empowerment, local content, workforce nationalization and knowledge transfer. Unfortunately, well-intentioned and loudly-touted programmes typically begin with great fanfare and admirable intentions but seldom meet expectations in the long term. One happy exception has been the Masters of Oil and Gas Law and Management at Angola's Agostinho Neto University ('Program') which recently celebrated 10 years of existence. The authors describe the genesis, history and methodology of this unique Program in whose development and implementation they played crucial roles. They also recount their promotional visits to law schools and other institutions on four other continents and the tangible effects that the Program has had outside of Angola. The article identifies a number of lessons learned in the process and hopefully will serve as a roadmap for those wishing to recreate the Program's success elsewhere. In short, this is the story of how a major oil company and a national law school brought together a world class teaching faculty and local experts for the benefit of more than 230 professionals and the nation as a whole.
- Subjects
ANGOLA; NATURAL gas laws; PETROLEUM law &; legislation; EDUCATIONAL programs; LAW school curriculum; PETROLEUM industry
- Publication
Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
1754-9957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jwelb/jwy005