Subcontracting : SMEs Drilled on Petroleum Norms

The subcontracting and Partnership Exchange of Cameroon, BSTP in collaboration with the Standards and quality Agency, ANOR, on Wednesday June 24, at the Hotel Vallée des Princes in Douala, organised a seminar on the norms immediately application in the oil and gas sectors in Cameroon. Speaking during the opening ceremony, the Director of BSTP, Evariste Yameni, said there are several opportunities in the oil and gas sector, open to small and medium-size enterprises in Cameroon which were before now exclusively reserved for multi-national companies. These opportunities have been made more available by ANOR which has defined norms for immediate implementation. The sensitisation seminar, he said, is therefore to prepare SMEs to subcontract with the National Hydrocarbons Company, SNH through the mastery of the norms governing these sectors and thereby enable their integration into the value chain of the big companies operating in the sector, especially SNH.
The inaugural presentation was done by the director of norms at ANOR, Francis Noel Zibi Zibi, who dwelled on the norms defined for ANOR for the oil and has sector. According to the officer in charge of anti-corrosion at the...