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PETRONAS INKS MOU WITH FOUR MAJOR OIL AND GAS PLAYERS
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Bernama) -- National petroleum company, Petronas, on Friday signed separate memoranda of understanding (MoU) with four major oil and gas players, to collaborate in enhancing the competency of the industry's local workforce through a variety of capability development programmes and education activities.
Under the terms of the MoU signed with Baker Hughes, Kencana Petroleum, SapuraCrest Petroleum and Technip Geoproduction, Petronas will work with the companies to train and develop local talent to cater for both domestic and regional industry needs.
The MoU will provide both the industry and the learning institutions a platform to identify, strategise and undertake programmes and activities to develop the industry’s future skilled workforce requirements.
Petronas Vice President of Human Resource Management, Juniwati Rahmat Hussin said the scope of the collaboration would include joint research and development, staff attachment opportunities, information sharing session, chair sponsorship, student internship and sponsorship, adjunct lecturer programmes, supervision of post-graduate students and technical trainees, and establishment of a learning facility.
"These companies have already started collaborating with us and have been training our students. This MoU is to formalise it, making sure that it is in line with the needs of the industry.
"With the collaboration, we also know the requirement in term of numbers, so, we will not have too many graduates in certain fields. We are in the same industry and require the same talent.
"We don’t want to be taking each other’s staff. So, the best way is to work together," she added.
The programmes and activities will be conducted at Petronas’ learning institutions, including the Petronas Management Training Centre, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Institut Teknologi Petroleum Petronas and Akademi Laut Malaysia.
This is in line with the objective of turning the institutions into regional education and learning centres for the oil and gas industry by 2020.
Managing Director of Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn Bhd, Edgar Pushparatnam said training is needed for new areas and technologies.
"We are now looking at the third deep water field. We had the first deep water field only about five years ago.
"The technology for this field has to grow through expertise and
competencies. So, we are training people in Malaysia to gain the competencies for deep water exploration," he added.
Under the terms of the MoU signed with Baker Hughes, Kencana Petroleum, SapuraCrest Petroleum and Technip Geoproduction, Petronas will work with the companies to train and develop local talent to cater for both domestic and regional industry needs.
The MoU will provide both the industry and the learning institutions a platform to identify, strategise and undertake programmes and activities to develop the industry’s future skilled workforce requirements.
Petronas Vice President of Human Resource Management, Juniwati Rahmat Hussin said the scope of the collaboration would include joint research and development, staff attachment opportunities, information sharing session, chair sponsorship, student internship and sponsorship, adjunct lecturer programmes, supervision of post-graduate students and technical trainees, and establishment of a learning facility.
"These companies have already started collaborating with us and have been training our students. This MoU is to formalise it, making sure that it is in line with the needs of the industry.
"With the collaboration, we also know the requirement in term of numbers, so, we will not have too many graduates in certain fields. We are in the same industry and require the same talent.
"We don’t want to be taking each other’s staff. So, the best way is to work together," she added.
The programmes and activities will be conducted at Petronas’ learning institutions, including the Petronas Management Training Centre, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Institut Teknologi Petroleum Petronas and Akademi Laut Malaysia.
This is in line with the objective of turning the institutions into regional education and learning centres for the oil and gas industry by 2020.
Managing Director of Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn Bhd, Edgar Pushparatnam said training is needed for new areas and technologies.
"We are now looking at the third deep water field. We had the first deep water field only about five years ago.
"The technology for this field has to grow through expertise and
competencies. So, we are training people in Malaysia to gain the competencies for deep water exploration," he added.
