Swift Energy, PTTEP and Woodside have announced their decision to join the PetroSkills technical training alliance for the oil and gas industry. The addition of these three companies further enhances the PetroSkills Member Alliance that was created in 2001 when BP, Shell and OGCI aligned their training experience and resources for the purpose of offering important, non-unique training. The additions of Halliburton, Saudi Aramco, Oxy, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Repsol YPF, University of Trinidad & Tobago, John M. Campbell & Company and Marathon Oil has broadened the alliance into a worldwide industry benchmark.
PetroSkills delivers on the synergy of its members by combining training best practices from each member company. This competency-based training is delivered on a worldwide basis conveniently and frequently, minimizing cost and travel.
The PetroSkills alliance affords member companies the opportunity to provide curriculum advisors for each of the petroleum disciplines in order to manage the development of course materials and select instructors. In addition, members help develop competency maps for the various disciplines - from the Geosciences and Reservoir Engineering, Drilling/Well Construction, Production and Completions Engineering, Petrophysics and Petroleum Business, Health, Safety and Environment, to Facilities design and construction. These proprietary competency maps enable individuals and organizations to identify critical technical training gaps and then build learning progressions (both courses and work experiences) that maximize worker performance.
“PetroSkills’ structured approach to learning provides a roadmap for lifelong learning and helps assure an effective workforce for companies as well as marketability for individuals,” said J. Ford Brett, Managing Director of PetroSkills.
While PetroSkills has expanded in both membership and geography, the alliance has also expanded its coverage of topics to the entire range of downstream technologies. John M. Campbell and Company (JMC) has brought its 40+ years of training and consulting experience together with the PetroSkills alliance resources and expertise to develop detailed skill maps for thw different facilities and construction disciplines. Discipline teams comprised of subject matter experts and curriculum advisors have been formed to develop competency maps in the following Facilities disciplines:
• Gas Processing
• Production Facilities (Process, Production Facilities, Water / Corrosion)
• Mechanical Engineering (Stationary Equipment, Rotating Equipment, Pipelines)
• Operations Management and Operator Training
• Procurement / Supply Chain Management
• Reliability Engineering
• Structural (Offshore, Onshore, Floating)
• Electrical and Instrumentation(Electrical, Instrument Controls)
• Refining
“The process of building the competency maps for each discipline has led us to identify training opportunities that are not currently being met in the industry, prompting us to prepare learning events to fill those gaps,” said Larry Lilly, Chairman of John M. Campbell & Company. “I am thrilled with the participation from the PetroSkills alliance members in this process. Their commitment and involvement ensures that all PetroSkills Facilities courses deliver what their people really need. The member companies are also contributing greatly to the course materials used in each class, providing material, feedback, data, resources and more. That is the power behind the PetroSkills model – taking the program and refining it further.” Last April, when ConocoPhillips joined the PetroSkills alliance, Tomie Magee, Manager of Upstream Engineering and Operations Staffing at ConocoPhillips echoed these sentiments. “By leveraging the resources from across the industry, PetroSkills delivers on its commitment to provide practical, relevant, and competency-based training. Participating in the PetroSkills alliance has allowed ConocoPhillips to maximize its own resources on a worldwide basis.”
About PetroSkills
BP, Shell and OGCI started PetroSkills in 2001 to help meet the petroleum industry’s growing professional training needs. Saudi Aramco and Halliburton joined PetroSkills in December 2001, in 2003 Unocal, Occidental Petroleum and John M. Campbell & Company became members. Membership in the PetroSkills Alliance has and will continue to grow as is witnessed in the announcement of the these three new members. By working together to offer the highest quality public training courses, member companies are able to focus internal resources on training that lets them differentiate themselves.
PetroSkills uses an important but not unique, competency-based training approach that is much more than a collection of courses. The PetroSkills Web-based Competency Assessment Tool (CAT Enterprise) lets members rapidly define the competencies needed by new graduates or determine skills gaps for experienced professionals, and then customize a learning plan to build the skills they need to be successful. PetroSkills builds upon the synergy of all its members by combining the best training from each company to make it available on an industry-wide basis. This year, PetroSkills will deliver over 700 public course sessions in 30 different cities. We also offer most public courses as private, on-site seminars. And, a number of special courses are also available as in-house sessions. For more information about PetroSkills, please visit: www.petroskills.com
About Swift Energy
Swift Energy, founded in 1979 and based in Houston, Texas, is an independent U.S.-based oil and natural gas company engaged in the development, exploration, acquisition, and operation of oil and gas properties, with a focus on the onshore and inland-water areas of the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts.
For more information, go to: www.swiftenergy.com
About PTTEP
PTTEP is a Bangkok, Thailand based national petroleum exploration and production company dedicated to providing a sustainable petroleum supply to Thailand and the countries where they operate. PTTEP has invested in 38 E&P activities in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Oman, Iran, Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand. A top-ten publicly-listed company in the Stock Exchange of Thailand, PTTEP operates more than 30 projects around the world and has a workforce of over 2,000. PTTEP is committed to developing natural resources while preserving the environment, promoting education and assimilating to the countries’ society wherever they operate.
For more information, go to: www.pttep.com
About Woodside
Woodside is Australia’s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company and one of the world’s leading producers of liquefied natural gas. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Woodside has major operational assets and exploration and development interests in five continents including Australia and the United States.
For more information, go to: www.woodside.com.au
Posted by PetroSkills on Monday, August 25, 2008 17:17
Location Tulsa, Oklahoma
Category Company News Release
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