See Why Discovery of Natural gas in Tanzania Could not bring Too Many Jobs To Tanzanians as they believe

Few weeks ago i got  the text from Tanzanian  who is studying Petroleum engineering in among  of university in China, He was curious to know  about the employment opportunity in natural gas sector in Tanzania? And this is why  i am writing this article.

You know many people believe the discovery of natural gas could give Tanzanians millions of job opportunities, they think, their sons, relatives or themselves can be  employed in  natural gas industry.This  is definetly  untrue. So to day, this article    will clear up  this  common misconception

Oil and gas sector is highly capital intensive industry with risky operations. And Due to the investment of high capital, the oil companies do not prefer to have a large number of employee in order  to make reasonable profit. In the currently findings released by Twaweza organization in a research brief tittled “Great expectation citizens views on the gas sector” shows that, average citizens expect four millon job opportunities from natural gas industry. Their expectation  is beyond of the real situation. Tanzanians can find an example of country like Norway, though of its massive discovery of natural resources,  they  have only 240,000  employee  in their  gas sector. 

You can imagine, Tanzanians expect four millions job in gas sector while Norwagians who currently employed in gas sector is only 240,000. I hope you will agree with me that, the perception of many Tanzanian citizen to get job in gas sector is unrealistic. 

MY FINAL WORDS

 Citizen might be be employed in this sector, but is not at large number  as many citizens believe, few people they could get employment and not many of them. This is the right time for Tanzanians to be aware on this particular matter.