BSP Awards 32 Scholarships
By Za'im Zaini

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei Shell Petroleum will offer 32 scholarships, including five for BLNG, six quotas for mechanical engineering, seven for chemical engineering, four in geology, one in geophysics, nine in petroleum engineering and five in instrumentation and control engineering'.

This was stated by Haji Zainal Abidin bin Hj Mohd Ali, BSP Deputy Managing Director and Human Resources and External Affairs Director yesterday during the contract signing between BSP scholars and BSP yesterday.

"I also wish to announce that a review has been made in the policies of the BSP scholarship. The company has raised the London supplement allowances from 50 pounds sterling to 250 pounds sterling to cover their expenses especially on accommodation. However, this allowance will immediately be ceased once they are enrolled into the Brunei Hall in London," he said.

BSP would continue to sponsor more students who meet the company's scholarship requirements, he said. This is one of the company's strategies to ensure an adequate supply of workforce to support the company on the coming future, especially in the technical disciplines, such as geology, geophysics, quantity surveying, meteorology and oceanography, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and surveying and mapping science.

21 BSP scholars signed their contract with BSP. Awg Hj Zainal Abidin together with Awg Hj Amit Bin Hj Abd Razak, the head of human resources relations and services at BSP signed the scholarship contracts on behalf of BSP.

They include seven females and fourteen males, who will study geology, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, geophysics, quantity surveying, meteorology and oceanography and surveying and mapping science. They will study at the University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, University of Loughborough, University of Liverpool John Moores, University of East Anglia, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, University of Liverpool, University of Leeds, University of College London and University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

They will study for three years and will be bonded for five years with the company once they graduated. Five of the 21 students will be bonded to BLNG

BSP also sponsored

another five graduates who will continue their studies in Master in Petroleum Engineering, Exploration Geophysics and Petroleum Geosciences at the Imperial College of London, Heriot Watt University and University of Leeds. They will complete the master programme in a year.

Dyg Hjh Nur Suria Amalia binti Hj Su'ut, who achieved a 1st class degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, will pursue her studies in Msc. Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College of London. She said she sees her future in BSP in longer terms. She advised young students who plan to follow her footsteps to find a balance between studies and activities.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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