By Rita Enemuru, Reporting
The Principal and Chief Executive of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Dr. Henry Adimula says the goal of the institute is to make it an enviable international training center.
He made the declaration at the Divers Medic Technician (DMT) training programme which commenced on Monday, July 25, 2022 at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun, Delta State.
Dr Adimula, PTI Principal
Chief Executive
The DMT training, which is one of the many trainings the institute had had, has six trainees for the course that will last for 10 days.
Dr. Adimula said that the training, which was made possible in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO), is one of the major steps taken to ensure increase in local content.
“The PTI has contributed its quota to Nigeria for 50 years and our goal is to make PTI an international center for training hub, not just for Nigeria but also for Africa.
One of the equipment for training
“One of the major trusts of this administration is to ensure increase in local content and input of Nigerians into the various industries, especially the petroleum industry; and what we are doing today, is one big step in line with that.
“This training that we are commencing today is what Nigerians go outside of the country to have.
“Though we are doing it in partnership with a foreign body, our ultimate goal is that very soon, the entire process will be conducted here in Nigeria and the certificate that will be obtained will be internationally recognized.
“The Divers Medic Technician course is focused on training first respondence in respect to any emergency arising from diving activities and the training is a 10-day intensive training that will be followed by an examination.
Trainees
“The institute has a goal to align and position to be very active in the training for the availability of manpower for the Nigeria oil and gas sector; this is just the first of many wins attainable by the institution,” he said.
Describing it as another great achievement in the history of PTI, Director of Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Dr. Michael Adebide said “Shell has been very supportive in respect to diving activities in Nigeria.
“In 1998, four of our colleagues in PTI were trained in France under the auspices of Shell and those were the very few divers who came out outstandingly among all the other divers,” he noted.
Also speaking at the event, an official of NCDMB, Mr. Muhammed Ahmed, reiterated that the training was the first of its kind in the institution and is in line with the local content directive given by the Buhari-led administration.
He said: “This is the first time a training is being conducted like this in PTI in conjunction with NCDMB and the board is really passionate about it.
“In line with the board key mandate that is industry capacity so what we are doing today is in line with that mandate.”
Better days are here.
Congratulations PTI