CHAPTER 57 - TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the transfer and dissemination of oil and gas technology. The main responsibility rests on the counterpart functions of the partners involved in the operation of transfer of technology, where the requirement for mutual understanding and spirit of cooperation is of the highest. Provisions for solving the counterpart problem have to be made at an early stage of planning, implying the advance selection of nationals for specific areas of transfer of technology. It is found that where the required core of candidates for this function is not available, advance training in pertinent disciplines should be arranged as implementing an industrial project without concomitant transfer of technology will obviously mean a total failure as far as strengthening of self-reliance is concerned. In extreme cases, a company or a government may engage foreign independent consultants to temporarily act as local counterparts to the suppliers of technology, while training local professionals for an early takeover of this function. The channels through which the instruments for the transfer of technology are supplied are strictly commercial arrangements between supplier and receiver and/or technical cooperation on a bilateral, multilateral, or international basis arranged for on government level or a combination of these.