Association Backs Push For Higher Skilled Oil Workforce

The Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) has restated its resoluteness to proceed grooming effectual fit-for-purpose accomplishment acceptable for stronger and much resilient vigor manufacture successful Nigeria.

President of the of the group, Chris Osarumwense, declared astatine the Human Capacity Development (HCD) Awards hosted by the radical successful Lagos that OGTAN is driven by the tone of excellence and collaboration successful driving the nation’s petroleum manufacture forward.

The relation restated this successful Lagos erstwhile it recognised 11 trainers, argumentation drivers and firm citizens with 10 categories of awards which it “celebrates their excellence, committedness and interaction successful quality capableness improvement wrong our industry.”

At the event, the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) received the Excellence successful Oil and Gas Training Award; Nigeria LNG Limited received the Best Corporate Training Partner Award; TotalEnergies E&P Nigeria Limited was recognized with the Young Professional Development Award; and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) Limited clinched the HCD Advancement Award.

Aradel Holding Plc and First E&P Development Company each received the Indigenous HCD Company of the Year Award; Pana Academy and Oilserv Limited besides received the OGTAN Affiliate of the Year Award each; and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) took the Government Partner of the Year Award.

In the idiosyncratic categories,, Mazi Sam Azoka Onyechi (KSC) received the OGTAN HCD Icon Award 2025; Mrs Funmi Ogbue stood up for designation with the Women In Energy Leadership Award; and Dr Ernest Nwapa got the grant for Lifetime Achievement successful Capacity Building.

Mr Osarumwense declared that the awardees “represent the highest standards of performance, leadership, and publication to workforce development.” He said, the lawsuit expresses the corporate committedness of the radical to gathering much resilient industry. He noted that, implicit 400 OGTAN subordinate companies person done the years delivered thousands of courses and certifications to physique industry-ready skills.

Caapcity development, according to him, has go captious to Nigeria’s vigor future. He said, OGTAN has taken the situation equipping talents with competencies needed to support the petroleum manufacture competitory and innovative.

Osarumwanse stated that, OGTAN remains committed to fostering excellence successful grooming and cognition sharing crossed the afloat petroleum manufacture enactment chain.

“Capacity improvement is captious to Nigeria’s vigor future. Through assemblage linkages, young professionals programmes and workshops, OGTAN drives quality capableness growth, equipping endowment with competencies needed to support the assemblage competitory and innovative,” helium stated.

In his remarks, the president of committee of Trustees, Mazi Sam Azoka Onyechi, stated that, OGTAN remains Nigeria’s top imaginable for quality capableness development. The group, according to him, achieved 1 of the large mandates of the authorities connected domestication and domiciliation of skills in-country.

“In pursuit of this mandate, OGTAN has been appointed an awarding assemblage for lipid and state manufacture skills by the Nigerian Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and, presently nether sponsorship of NCDMB, is profoundly progressive successful processing nationalist occupational modular for closing the gaps of captious lipid and state skills.

“We person operated with afloat absorption connected the 5 concepts of standardization, digitalization, certification, accreditation and domiciliation; each aimed astatine processing OGTAN arsenic an accredited certification assemblage with a certified Quality Management System to usher this noble work and achieved Certification of our Quality Management System to the ISO 9001:2015 Standard.

“And it is our imagination to marque OGTAN a regionally applicable and acceptable marque successful quality capableness improvement successful Africa,” helium stressed.