First Common Global Qualifications for Oil & Gas to Build Competent Workforces
OPITO Launches Global Framework for Vocational Qualifications in Response to Industry Demand For the first time, workers anywhere in the world will be able to work towards vocational qualifications which will be recognised by the global oil and gas industry. Training standards body, OPITO International, has developed global technical standards …
Oil & Gas Skills Body Reveals Extent of International and Domestic Growth as it Strives to Close New Skills Gaps
Over half a million offshore oil and gas workers in 40 countries are now trained to OPITO safety and competency standards. The industry-funded body which develops a sustainable, safe and competent workforce for the oil and gas sector today revealed a series of statistics which demonstrate the organisation’s transformation over …
OPITO-approved survival training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center helps raise the bar on offshore safety in Gulf of Mexico
The Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation (OPITO) International announced today that the Hi-Con Training Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has been approved to deliver a suite of survival training courses to the OPITO standard. OPITO is wholly owned by the oil and gas industry and is responsible for ensuring …