IHRDC’s Training Leads to International Certification for 35 Assistant Drillers in Abu Dhabi
The first generation of national trainees from the National Drilling Company of Abu Dhabi successfully completed IHRDC’s Accelerated Competency Based Drilling Technology Program and went on to pass the Well CAP (IADC) examination to earn International Well Control Certificates.
Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- International Human Resources
Development Corporation (IHRDC) announced today that the first generation of
national trainees from the National Drilling Company (NDC) of Abu Dhabi
successfully passed the Well CAP examination to earn Well Control International
Certificates.
One of the main goals of IHRDC’s Accelerated Competency
Based Drilling Technology Program is to replace non-Emirate employees by
training new UAE college graduates in drilling industry jobs such as Floor Men,
Warehouse Men, Radio Operators, Derrick Men, Assistant Drillers, and Trainee
Drillers. A further goal is that of deepening the value of work and promoting a
sense of pride among trainees.
IHRDC’s Cairo Office, which specializes
in Operations and Maintenance Competency Development Training, is managing the
NDC Project. Dr. Samy Salem, Operations Director for IHRDC, Cairo stated: “ From
the beginning, IHRDC intended to create a sense of pride in the trainees. Now,
they realize that they are pioneers in their vocation and are leading the way
for future emirate citizens to enter the drilling field. The credit for this
achievement goes to our marvelous team of instructors in
Abu-Dhabi”.
IHRDC’s Accelerated Competency Based Drilling Technology
Program will prepare a minimum of 280 national trainees to meet World Class
standards over a three-year period. Each trainee will receive 105 weeks of
training in three phases: Roustabout and Floor Man Module (29 weeks), Derrick
Man Module (32 weeks), and Assistant Driller Module (44 weeks). The program
includes short-term classroom instruction followed by rigorous on-the-job
competency development training.
Mr. Yousef Al-Halabi, NDC Project
Manager noted that nine program graduates have already been assigned to rigs as
Assistant Drillers and there are many more to follow: “The program started in
September of 2002 and is progressing very well as the trainees are being
graduated after the completion of 105 weeks of theoretical and practical
knowledge in the Accelerated Competency Based Drilling Technology Program at the
school and the rigs. So far, nine trainees from the first batch have graduated
and been deployed in the rigs as full-fledged Assistant Drillers, … the other 5
batches will follow in their footsteps to form a generation of graduates from
the Drilling Practices School that make efficient hands in the drilling
industry."
One such former trainee, Waleed Saeed Al Neaimi, who recently
graduated with a degree in Petrochemical Engineering and is now a fulltime
Assistant Driller praised the program: “ For 2 ½ years since joining this career
development training course I gained a lot of beneficial information on a daily
basis thanks to our experienced instructors…now I am working as an Assistant
Driller and all of my supervisors are satisfied with my work. Now, I have a
clear and promising future.”
The training provided by IHRDC supports Abu
Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), of which NDC is a wholly owned subsidiary,
in achieving its stated objective of maximizing the percentage of UAE nationals
in the workforce of ADNOC's group of companies.
About
IHRDC
Headquartered in Boston with offices in Amsterdam, Cairo and Caracas,
International Human Resources Development Corporation (IHRDC) is a privately
owned company that has been providing highly regarded management, technical and
operations training programs and competency-based e-Learning systems to the oil
and gas industry for more than 35 years.
For more information on this
project or others, please visit the website at www.ihrdc.com or contact:
Bradford Donohue
IHRDC -
Boston
Director of Corporate Development
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1-617-536-0202 ext. 2259
Ayman Meneassy
IHRDC - Cairo
Vice
President, Middle East and Africa
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20 2 519
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