Anchoring · The rent stays in the country
The oil rent must stay in the country.
Pushing back energy poverty is our reason for being — and that is won in the territories. Local content, Chadian jobs, training the next generation, access to energy down to the last kilometre: measurable development benefits that align EnerTchad with the expectations of lenders and impact finance.
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Communities · The shared rent
The oil rent must irrigate the territories.
Beyond the barrel, EnerTchad wants its activity to be a development lever for communities.
Who this is for
Communities, local authorities & youth
Neighbouring territories and Chadian youth, first concerned by the resource.
Our answer
Local content & services
Jobs and training, health-education and opening up regions at the ARSAT price (commitments).
The targeted gain
Anchored development
A fair, durable rent, useful to the territories.
01 · Local content & jobs
Local content & Chadian jobs
Making Chadians the first actors of their own oil: priority to national employment, to local suppliers and subcontractors, and to upskilling the country’s SMEs along the whole chain. This commitment now has a name: the TchadiValeur programme — 80% Chadian value at scale.
02 · Training & next generation
Training the Chadian next generation
“Train before extracting.” With the Tchaditude pole, EnerTchad targets an academy of oil professions — geosciences, drilling, refining, HSE, supervision — to build the national team before the first barrel.
03 · Access to energy
Opening up regions, at the right price
Too many territories still lack reliable energy. EnerTchad targets a distribution network down to the last kilometre — Tchadium and Mobile Stations™ — at the regulated ARSAT price, so that access is not an urban privilege.
04 · Health & education
Health, education & science
A responsible operator gives the territory back more than it takes. EnerTchad targets local programmes in health, education and science (STEM), so the oil rent durably irrigates the communities.
05 · Dialogue, grievances & sponsorship
Community dialogue & sponsorship
Acceptability is built by listening. EnerTchad targets a continuous dialogue with neighbouring communities, responsible management of socio-economic impacts and targeted sponsorship — consistent with its ESG commitments.
Our field commitment, in five practices
Principles are not enough: around every site, community engagement plays out in precise, repeatable practices — verifiable by residents themselves.
Listen before deciding
Before any siting: consultation with customary authorities, women and young people — separately where needed. The project adjusts to what it hears, and says so.
Put commitments in writing
Local jobs, water access, worksite hours: what is promised to a community is written, signed and posted — a spoken commitment is forgotten, a written one can be claimed.
Recruit as locally as possible
At equal skill, priority goes to people from the area; and where the skill is missing, we train it locally rather than importing it for good.
Measure and publish
Actual local jobs, purchases from local businesses, social projects delivered: the figures are published at regular intervals — residents judge on evidence.
Handle every grievance
An accessible register, a posted response time, follow-up through to closure: a complaint handled fast is a conflict avoided — and the record of grievances feeds the standards.
Territory · Land
The land before the derrick.
A wellpad, a pipeline, a depot cross cultivated fields. The IFC PS5 reference sets the order: avoid first, then compensate at a fair price — and no one should live worse after the works than before.
The route is discussed before the survey: consultation of rights-holders, alternatives studied, minimal footprint. Taking a field is the last resort, not the reflex — and temporary footprints are restored.
Crops, trees and improvements compensated at replacement cost, on a publicly agreed and displayed schedule — paid before entering the land. No works start on a promise.
Livelihoods are followed over time: soil restoration, local hiring priority, post-works monitoring. Any disagreement goes through the grievance mechanism — four dated steps, no retaliation (community dialogue).
Target reference IFC PS5 · company in formation — commitments applicable from the first survey onwards.