The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has re­ceived aca­d­e­m­ic li­cences from Hal­libur­ton un­der its Uni­ver­si­ty Grant Pro­gramme.

The do­na­tion com­pris­es li­cences for the Land­mark Tech­nol­o­gy Hold­ing In­cor­po­ra­tion Pe­tro­le­um En­gi­neer­ing Soft­ware Suite. The li­cences were pre­sent­ed to UTT’s En­er­gy Sys­tems En­gi­neer­ing Unit. The uni­ver­si­ty stat­ed that the soft­ware will sup­port teach­ing and re­search and pro­vide stu­dents with ac­cess to tools used in the en­er­gy sec­tor.

The pre­sen­ta­tion took place at a recog­ni­tion event host­ed by the uni­ver­si­ty.

Land­mark Coun­try Man­ag­er Ri­car­do Al­vares said the com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to build­ing a part­ner­ship with the uni­ver­si­ty and with fu­ture pro­fes­sion­als.

Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn R. Cud­joe O.R.T.T., Chair­man of the Board of Gov­er­nors, UTT, said the do­na­tion will en­sure stu­dents have ac­cess to tools, knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ences re­quired to con­tribute to Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er coun­tries.

Pro­fes­sor Re­an Ma­haraj, Act­ing Pres­i­dent, UTT, said the uni­ver­si­ty re­mains fo­cused on in­no­va­tion and on prepar­ing stu­dents to meet the needs of in­dus­try and so­ci­ety. He said part­ner­ships such as the one be­tween UTT and Hal­libur­ton al­low the in­sti­tu­tion to pro­vide stu­dents with ac­cess to tools, prac­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence and op­por­tu­ni­ties linked to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

UTT thanked Hal­libur­ton for the con­tri­bu­tion and for its sup­port of de­vel­op­ment goals in Trinidad and To­ba­go.