Lundin Petroleum Chair at the University of Juba, South Sudan
The University of Juba is the leading educational institution in South Sudan; thanks to the end of the war it has begun relocating its faculties and programmes back to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, from Khartoum, where it had moved during the war.

In 2006, Lundin Petroleum sponsored a short training program at the University of Juba on project formulation for civil servants of the newly created Government of South Sudan. Given its success, Lundin Petroleum decided in 2007 to institutionalise the training through the creation of a Lundin Petroleum Chair at the University of Juba on “Public Sector Capacity Building in Southern Sudan”

Between 2007 and 2008, a number of training programmes have been carried out by the Lundin Petroleum Chair, involving civil servants responsible for dealing with project management. A concerted effort has been made to achieve gender parity among the attendees.

Lack of sufficient adapted facilities has led the Company to consider the funding the construction of a Lundin Petroleum Training Centre at the University which would serve the educational needs of South Sudanese students for generations to come.

Global Oil Reserves
Lundin Petroleum has made a financial contribution to the University of Uppsala in Sweden in relation to a research project with the objective of determining global oil reserves. Energy plays a key part in the world economy, the climate and world security. Oil and gas accounts for nearly three quarters of world energy consumption today. Dr Kjell Aleklett, a professor of physics at the University of Uppsala, is responsible for this project. www.isv.uu.se/aleklett

 
The Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), Scotland
CEPMLP of the University of Dundee, is one of the leading European educational institutions in the oil and gas sector; it is situated in Scotland, where the bulk of Lundin Petroleum's production comes from. The Company has decided to fund once again a scholarship for a Masters' Program in Petroleum Law and Policy. The recipient of the scholarship in 2007, Mr Abebe Chekol, an Ethiopian national lecturer in law at the University of Addis Ababa, was selected among a number of highly qualified applicants from Indonesia, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia; Mr Chekol intends to pursue his teaching career at the University of Addis after completing his LLM at CEPMLP. Furthermore Lundin Petroleum secured the funding of the remaining studies of a Southern Sudanese student by a French company.

 
The Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN), Switzerland
This Geneva based institution runs a program entitled “Fostering Entrepreneurship and Leadership”, for entrepreneurs, civil servants and NGO staff from developing nations. The three weeks course gives attendees the necessary skills to develop and carry out a business plan and/or analyse project proposals on this basis.  Lundin Petroleum prides itself for its entrepreneurship spirit and is thus pleased to be associated with a program which promotes it.

In 2007, Lundin Petroleum provided two half scholarships to civil servants from Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.