Nigerdock, a leading indigenous oil and gas services company, yesterday successfully completed the training of 161 Nigerians in different construction related disciplines.
The training was in tandem with the National Human Capacity Development (NHCD) obligations, required by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) for the Domestic Supply Obligation (DSO) – MEREN Gas Gathering Compression Platform (GGCP) and SONAM Non-associated Gas Wellhead Platform (NWP) project sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited.
“A total of 151,035 man-hours were expended on the training, which commenced in October 2013, and involved hands-on, on-the-job training across diverse disciplines in vocational and professional areas such as: welding, fitting, machining, electrical and instrumentation engineering, international welding engineering, non-destructive testing, health safety environment and quality, fabrication machine, rolling machine, pipe profiler, self-propelled modular transporter operations, lifting operations and work pack engineering,” Ifeanyi Chimi, Nigeria’s content manager, Nigerdock, said.
Upon completion, Nigerdock offered employment to 114 of the total number of trainees and urged those who received no offer that the comprehensive supplylist of total trainees would be used in recommending them to companies in need of their services.
“For those who weren’t offered employment, we plan to use our list of total trainees for recommendation purpose,” Chimi said.
Singing praises of the training team, David Murray, the acting managing director of Nigerdock, who stated that the achievement recorded in the successful completion of the training, could be attributed to their enthusiasm and drive.
“Nigerdock is proud to have been entrusted with the opportunity to deliver this landmark training. This great achievement would not have been possible without the effort and drive of our very talented and highly resourceful training centre team, our subject matter experts and work force in general that have shown diligence and dedication from the very start of this project,’’ Murray said.
Expressing satisfaction in the outcome of the training, one of the trainees retained was quoted as saying, ‘’I consider myself lucky to be among the trainees retained by Nigerdock, and I commend the training team for all they invested in training myself and the other trainees.’’
Yinka Sokoya, manager, business services/gas relations, Chevron Nigeria, said: ‘’We initiated this training so as to fill the gap that exists between Nigerians and the oil and gas industry, and achieve increased local content in the nation’s oil and gas sector.
