The shared rent: what oil must change for the territories.
Chad has produced oil for over twenty years, and the memory of the rent remains sensitive. EnerTchad starts from that fact: beyond the barrel, the business must be a development lever for communities — measurable, not declarative.
An oil rent can cross a country without irrigating it: extracted here, processed elsewhere, spent far away. The opposite cannot be decreed — it is built, link by link. That is the meaning of EnerTchad’s Communities pillar: making the resource concretely change life for neighbouring territories and for Chad’s youth, the first people concerned by it.
Local content is not a constraint: it is the model
The first sharing channel is the business itself: 80% Chadian staff targeted, with priority recruitment and qualification of national talent at every step of the chain; preference for Chadian suppliers and SMEs, with a local-content specification in procurement; and know-how transfer clauses in technical partnerships. Capturing the value in Chad, not just the barrel — that is the difference between an industry that employs and an industry that irrigates.
Train, then unlock
Sharing runs through skills — the role of the Tchaditude academy, its scholarships and work-study tracks — and through access: the network down to the last kilometre, Tchadium and Mobile Stations™, at the ARSAT price everywhere, so that reliable energy is not an urban privilege. LPG against wood fuel completes the picture: the same chain that creates jobs protects the forests.
Giving back more than is taken
A responsible operator gives the territory back more than it takes: support for health and education, agro-pastoral benefits around sites, infrastructure shared with neighbouring communities — the Doba oil zone first. These are not image gestures: they are lines in each asset’s development plan, provisioned like everything else.
Acceptability is built by listening
Finally, the most fragile and most decisive channel: continuous community dialogue. Not an opening meeting followed by silence — a listening posture sustained before, during and after operations. Chad’s memory of the rent is sensitive; the answer is transparency (EITI approach targeted, Chadian capital, OHADA governance) and presence. Acceptability is not bought: it is earned.
A rent that leaves is a field lost twice. A rent that stays transforms a country.
Commitments displayed, dated, accountable
As with everything we publish: EnerTchad is a company in formation, and these commitments are dated targets — displayed so they can be held against us when operations open, not after. The detail lives on the Sustainability pages. But the line is simple, and it sums up the whole house: Chad’s oil, developed by its own children — for the benefit of all.