 petroleum dept food institute for ug petroleum dept food institute for ug petroleum dept food institute for ug webmaster sat 2102018 1855 the university of guyana ug is in the process of establishing a petroleum department as well as a food and nutrition institute vice chancellor of the university professor ivelaw griffith said the new facilities are timely since guyana is becoming an oil producing nation but at the same time needs to improve its capacity in the traditional economic sector of agriculture professor griffith announced on the final day of the gipex summit that a study is underway to develop a department of petroleum engineering we have a working group helping to figure out the varying contributing elements to that what kind of faculty do we need what will be the curriculum what are the lab equipment we might need what are the linkages with industry who might we have on the advisory board for that department he explained according to the university s vicechancellor as guyana becomes an oilproducing nation its students need access to training in all aspects of the industry in this regard professor griffith said the university is conducting a gap analysis to determine other areas that need improvement the analysis we re doing is with a view of the whole university enterprise what is it we need to do better to prepare in law what is it needs to be better prepared to do in the social sciences what is under occupational health in the medical field what is it we need to do in nursing we re taking a comprehensive approach to the energy venture and adventure he stated the vicechancellor cautioned that oil and gas should not consume all of the peoples energy since guyana is and will remain an agriculturebased society as such he said efforts are underway to launch a food and nutrition institute on world food day on october 16 2018 the food and agriculture organisation fao had donated us 30000 to the university of guyana to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of the institute meanwhile professor griffith reiterated that the university of guyana stands ready to play a leading role in the country s development article adapted from  https newsroomgy 20180209 petroleumdeptfoodinstituteforug  oil gas petroleum food and nutrition institute 