Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 20, 2010
PetroSkills is pleased to announce the startup of PetroSkills O&M, an exciting joint venture with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), a global leader in technician training. Focusing on both operator and maintenance technicians employed across the full spectrum of upstream, mid-stream and downstream roles, PetroSkills O&M offers companies a robust slate of both instructor led and e-learning content.

Commenting on the joint venture value proposition, Ron Hinn, Managing Director of PetroSkills O&M described the new offering as “PetroSkills response to the bigger crew change that will be occurring across operator ranks over the next decade”. Hinn stated that “The demographic changes impacting the engineering ranks within E&P represent a small percentage of the numbers that will be impacted in the operations and maintenance ranks.”

PetroSkills O&M currently offers competency development and competency management resources for the following disciplines - Production Field Operations, Gas Process Operations and Drilling operations. Efforts are now underway to build out capabilities within the Pipeline, Refinery and Petro Chemical operations and maintenance disciplines.

O&M represents the fourth discipline “vertical” for PetroSkills to enter. The rigor and processes utilized to build the PetroSkills offerings within E&P, Facilities and HSE will also be applied to O&M. This includes the use of member company subject matter experts to direct and maintain detailed competency profiles for each technician discipline. This provides an industry “shared viewpoint” of the skills or competencies required to successfully perform at a given level. Training offerings are subsequently aligned to each profile in order to deliver the necessary competencies.
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What Is PetroSkills?
PetroSkills provides unique competency-based training programs – not just a collection of courses. Course content is based on detailed skill and competency maps developed with our member companies. Each discipline is describes through these competency skill maps to ensure that professionals can identify the competencies needed at their individual level. Competency maps are available to individuals and companies via a web-based Competency Analysis Tool (CAT Enterprise). CAT Enterprise allows professionals to track their development, determine what skills they need, and create a customized plan to close learning gaps.

Practical. Real-World. Business-Relevant.
Practicality sets us apart. This competency focused learning delivers the individual skills and technology needs of operating companies and industry professionals. Our goal is that after attending a PetroSkills course, professionals will return to their workplace and immediately apply the skills learned to create value.

Quality Courses. Quality Instructors.
PetroSkills’ coursework is reviewed and strengthened by each of its partner companies. The member curriculum advisors and the PetroSkills Board must approve each course, ensuring practical, up-to-date relevant training. The same is true for the instructors that teach the courses – they must be approved by the PetroSkills Board and member curriculum advisors.

Learn more about PetroSkills O&M by visiting www.petroskills.com
Learn more about SAIT by visiting http://www.sait-training-solutions.com/