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PTDF Donates Books To Petroleum & Gas Dept
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- Published: 12 July 2011
It was harvest time for the University as Emeka Offor Foundation and the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) took turns to enrich the Institution’s Library in an effort aimed at enhancing reading and research.
In the latest donation made penultimate Thursday, PTDF, through its Upgrade Programme component for supply of Books and Journal, made the contribution sequel to an earlier request made by the University, according to the Executive Secretary of the Fund, Dr Muttaqa Darma.
Conveying the donation in a Letter dated 2nd June, 2011, to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ajienka, Dr Darma listed the books to include copies of Evaporites through Space and Time, Standard Handbook of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing Underground Gas Storage Facilities, Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering, Principle of Applied Reservoir Simulation and Deep-time Perspective on Climate Change, promising that “the remaining books and journal will be supplied as soon as they are available”.
Receiving the books on behalf of the University, Acting Head, Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Dr Sunday Ikiensikimama, thanked the PTDF for the gesture which he described as worthwhile, assuring the Fund that both staff and students would make judicious use of the books to explore more knowledge.
Also speaking, a former Acting Head of the Department, Dr Boma Kinigoma, commended the Fund for its partnership, recalling that the Departmental Building was donated by PTDF in addition to other facilities which the Fund has provided to assist teaching and learning in the University. He applauded the numerous measures it has initiated to strengthen University education, particularly in the oil and gas industry.
Handing over the books, PTDF’s representative, Engr. Neeka Jacob, of the Department of Research, Planning & Statistics in the Fund, who is also an Alumnus of the University, called on the Department to fill up the vacancy in its Chair to attract more development programmes from the Fund.
