In a clos­er look at the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ gen­er­al ad­min­is­tra­tion bud­get for goods and ser­vices, con­tract em­ploy­ment emerges as the most sig­nif­i­cant ex­pen­di­ture item across the three-year span from 2024 to 2026.

The re­vised es­ti­mates for 2025 place con­tract em­ploy­ment at $15 mil­lion, up from $13 mil­lion in 2024, with a fur­ther in­crease pro­ject­ed to $16 mil­lion in 2026. This up­ward tra­jec­to­ry re­flects the Min­istry’s con­tin­ued re­liance on spe­cialised per­son­nel to sup­port its ad­min­is­tra­tive and tech­ni­cal op­er­a­tions.

The in­crease of $2 mil­lion be­tween 2024 and 2025, fol­lowed by an ad­di­tion­al $1 mil­lion in 2026, sug­gests a strate­gic ex­pan­sion of staffing re­sources, like­ly tied to new en­er­gy ini­tia­tives and reg­u­la­to­ry over­sight.