Feature: China trains young Ugandans to take charge of budding oil industry


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Dec 2022

KAMPALA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has a budding oil industry that experts project will fast-track the country's economic development once commercial production starts. Back in 2014, Lamech Mbangaye dropped his studies in insurance and followed the oil dream. Mbangaye wants to be part of this oil journey.

His family was full of excitement when he got a scholarship sponsored by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to go and study in China. Mbangaye was uncertain of what would happen at his university, China University of Petroleum in Shandong Province, with a new community and culture, far from home.

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