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Adnoc Drilling, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, subsidiary, on Monday celebrated the graduation of 333 Emiratis from its Drilling Training Centre.
Today’s graduates are the latest batch to have completed their training at the state-of-the-art centre. They will play a key role in ensuring efficient, reliable and safe onshore and offshore well-drilling operations.
The graduation ceremony, held at ADNOC Drilling’s Bida’a Al Oshaneh Base, in Al Dhafra Region, was attended by Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO. He said that the graduation, which takes the total number of graduates from the Drilling Training Centre to 1,000 UAE Nationals, is a proud landmark which underscored ADNOC’s commitment to invest in the development of young people, and enable them to seize the opportunities offered by digitisation in drilling and across the company’s operations.
“ADNOC’s training programmes aim to provide ADNOC with the technologically skilled workforce we will require to effectively deliver our 2030 smart growth strategy and to ensure we will continue to lead, thrive, and compete in the future,” Dr. Al Jaber said. “Efficient and safe drilling operations are critical in delivering ADNOC’s target to reduce well duration by 30 percent, by the end of 2019, and will help ensure we remain resilient in a changing energy environment as we optimise production costs and create greater returns from our upstream assets and resources.
“In parallel with the delivery of our strategic objectives, ADNOC is committed to playing its part in a sustainable and prosperous future for the nation, in line with the leadership’s directives, by providing skilled employment opportunities, for nationals, that contribute to the development of the country’s broader knowledge economy.”
The Drilling Training Centre offers industry-specific training programmes and customised courses that address the latest in industry thinking and operations. Using high-tech equipment, and advanced training techniques and methods, the centre prepares ADNOC’s Emirati employees to operate state-of-the-art rigs, while maintaining the highest levels of HSE and asset integrity.
In the last 12 months, the Drilling Training Centre has received a number of important endorsements from prominent organisations in the United States, providing graduates with internationally accredited qualifications.
Established in 1972 as the National Drilling Company, ADNOC Drilling is one of the largest drilling contractors in the Middle East. Since 2010, when it had 28 rigs, it has expanded its operations three-fold, in response to customer demand, with 94 rigs in its fleet. Since Rig ND-1 began work in 1973, NDC’s drilling fleet has drilled over 7,700 wells.