Total Yemen celebrates its scholarships program

Total E&P Yemen celebrates its scholarships programme in Yemen and signs two agreements with Sana’a and Hadramout universities

Total E&P Yemen celebrated yesterday, 30 August 2008, its first- ever international scholarship programme in Yemen. Based on this programme, Total is going to sponsor ten scholarships: six undergraduates, three diploma, and one master, students are scheduled to travel for study both in the United Kingdom and France early September 2008. 

Mr. Martin Deffontaines, the general manager of Total E&P Yemen, stressed in the speech he gave on this occasion on the importance of this programme and the benefit it will have on not only the oil and gas industry in Yemen but also at the socio-economical level. 

Total E&P Yemen culminated its celebration by signing two Memorandums of understandings with the universities of Sana’a and Hadramout. 

The two memorandums will allow for broadened scientific and academic cooperation with these two leading universities. Based on these memorandums, Total will send its experts via its non-profit Total professeurs Associes (TPA) to universities in Yemen in order to transfer Total know-how an expertise to Yemeni students. 

Mr. Deffontaines added that. “In order for Total to be more welcomed by the Yemeni society and in order for Total to be part of life in Yemen in the long term, we should act as good corporate citizens and help effectively in the educational development in Yemen.” 

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