Wits, Shell South Africa work to bridge geophysics skills gap

Oil and gas company Shell South Africa has donated R5-million, over a five-year period, to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to help fund a Seismology Reflection Centre that would assist in easing the significant skills shortage in the geophysics and petroleum engineering fields in Africa. Housed at the Wits School of Geoscience, the centre would be used to provide world-class geophysical training to students across Africa to acquire the knowledge and skills required in the oil, gas and mineral industries.