TTE wins tender to deliver technical training to Shell Iraq Petroleum Development.
TTE International successfully won the tender to deliver technical training to Shell Iraq Petroleum Development (SIPD) in 2014. The project comprised of operator and maintenance technician training for electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and process operations personnel.
TTE’s role
The programme was designed to build the participant’s knowledge; understanding and technical skills up to a Level 2 standard and enable them to return to Majnoon to achieve their respective Level 2 SVQ in Processing Operations: Hydrocarbons (production course attendees) or Process Engineering Maintenance (maintenance course attendees). In addition to the development of technical skills, the programme also enhanced the course attendees’ ‘soft skills’, including English language, team building and information and communication technology (ICT).
Programme overview
The maintenance course led to the award of City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Performing Engineering Operations (PEO) for successful candidates. The production course led to the award of the SQA / OPITO Level 1 SVQ in Processing Operations: Hydrocarbons in addition to skills training at Level 2. All units were delivered in a combination of classroom, simulator or pilot plant environment. To date TTE has successfully completed an initial intake of 16 delegates, split between Electrical and Instrumentation.
- EAL Level Diploma in Performing Engineering Operations
- CCNSG Safety Passport
- CIEH – Risk Assessment – Level 2
- CIEH – COSHH – Level 2
- CIEH Health & Safety in the Workplace – Level 2
- OCN Safe Lifting – Level 2
- SQA Process Operations Hydrocarbons
- CCNSG Safety Passport
- CIEH – Risk Assessment – Level 2
- CIEH – COSHH – Level 2
- CIEH Health & Safety in the Workplace – Level 2
- OCN Safe Lifting – Level 2
To achieve these qualifications, technicians were divided into small groups working a shift rota on different sections of the training plant. All technicians were required to:
- Work as part of a team
- Perform effective verbal and written handovers
- Operate plant and equipment taking on different roles from outside operator, local panel operator and CCR
- Learn effective DCS screen navigation
- Deal with alarms and plant upsets which could escalate to a critical level
- Operate a plant remotely from a central control room scenario
- Conduct Process fault finding – indentification and rectification of faults
- Work to plant operational and safety procedures
- Test the plant safety systems function prior to start up
- Take plant samples for analysis
Level 3 production training
In order for production technicians to prepare for the OPITO/SQA assessments against Level 3 Processing of Hydrocarbons on-site, it was essential delegates had a comprehensive understanding of the specific processes involved with petroleum operations. These are as stated in the Level 3 standard:
- Wells
- Water injection
- Oil storage/discharge process
- Metering
- Gas process
- Utilities
In order to achieve the above, TTE delivered the City & Guilds/OPITO Level 3 Certificate in Petroleum Processing Technology, supplemented by practical activities on TTE’s Three Phase Separator and Water Treatment Plants wherever possible in order to investigate trouble shooting, isolations, process deviations and building on the competence and knowledge gained in the earlier programmes.
Level 3 Engineering
The Level 3 engineering programmes have been designed to include key professional qualifications and underpinning knowledge and practical experience cross matched to the SQA Level 3 process engineering maintenance standards.
To date 16 technicians have successfully completed the programme.
Technician overseas Training programme for Majnoon Oilfield Development
TTE, Middlesbrough, UK.
January 2016 > May 2016