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born 1976 Uganda
Josephine Wapakabulo, is an electrical engineer and business executive. She served as the founding chief executive officer of Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC).
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NOCs should be cooperating on a skills and knowledge transfer level among themselves and IOCs.
To get through them I need good advice, advisors: legal, commercial, technical.
To get good advisors I need money, and money is a challenge.
That’s why even the big 100-year-old international oil companies pay experts to negotiate for them.
That even if UNOC is not there, they should continue to operate successfully across other sectors.
UNOC needs to find the right balance to gain as much value as possible from the sector on behalf of the state.
I really enjoy the open debate, thinking, looking at things in other ways, getting other perspectives on things.
Having a framework to filter that through will help me engage some of the stakeholders who are focused on ideas.
I just need to get to first oil and to do that there are so many contractual agreements.
Ensuring that enough supporting sectors beyond the very core high barrier to entry are left to Ugandans to develop.
UNOC has a critical role in building, empowering and supporting the local supply chain beyond the core oil and gas sector.
The vision for UNOC is to have commercial interest across the value chain.
In high barrier to entry, high skill areas, generating as much revenue as possible for the country, and separated from regulating and licensing.
We have a chance to think, away from the day-to-day.
I am dealing with on a crossborder pipeline.
I need money now when I am doing the contracts, for good advisors, so I don’t fall into the pitfalls we’ve identified during the course.
The conversations are more strategic, more long-term, as opposed to the operational stuff we are dealing with every day when we are in meetings.
There’s lots of good firms. But they come at a premium.
I have got an approach that will help me communicate with some of my political stakeholders back home.
You actually produce I need money for the extraction projects, money for supporting infrastructure like roads.
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