| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Oil & Gas Industry, Education, Consulting |
| Predecessor | Oil and Gas Consultant International |
| Founder(s) | Thomas Allen & Alan Roberts |
| Headquarters | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Number of locations | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Kingdom of Bahrain |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | J Ford Brett |
| Products | PetroCore Reference |
| Services |
Health, Safety, Environment Training Operations & Maintenance Training Geo Science, Engineering, and PetroPhysical Accelerated Development Programs Exploration & Production Training Competency Assurance Solutions Surface Facilities Training |
| Website | www.petroskills.com |
PetroSkills Alliance is an initiative formed between oil and gas companies and Oil & Gas Consultant International to provide petroleum training. Member companies joined together with PetroSkills to create detailed skill and competency maps, which act as a guide for the short courses, taught to industry professionals in locations spanning the globe. The competency maps compromise specific details about the technical skills professionals in a given discipline are expected to develop at different stages throughout their career.[1] PetroSkills training disciplines ranges from upstream, downstream, to occupational safety and health within the petroleum subject disciplines. The Alliance focuses on training and developing efforts for most of the disciplines associated with the extraction, processing and commercialization of hydrocarbons.[1]
Petroskills offers classes that allow participants to receive the United Kingdoms National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health through a series of classes.[2] PetroSkills also expanded their training to operations and maintenance technicians in 2010 with a partnership the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.[3][4] This partnership was a "response to the bigger crew change that will be occurring across operator ranks over the next decade. The demographic changes impacting the engineering ranks within E&P represent a small percentage of the numbers that will be impacted in the operations and maintenance ranks.” [5] With the introduction of PetroSkills O&M, a specific focus was placed on both operations and maintenance (O&M) technicians employed in upstream, midstream and downstream roles, PetroSkills O&M offers companies training through both instructor-led training and e-learning content.[6]
PetroSkills is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma with offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Kingdom of Bahrain and a training center in Katy, TX.
1963 PetroSkills began as OGCI where it delivered the first petroleum technology short course.[6]
2001 BP, Shell and OGCI (Oil and Gas Consultant International) formed the PetroSkills Alliance. Halliburton[7] joined soon after.
2002 Saudi Aramco became a full member of the PetroSkills Alliance
2003 Occidental Petroleum also known as OXY joined the PetroSkills Alliance.
2004 ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Repsol YPF partnered with PetroSkills.
2005 Marathon Oil became a PetroSkills Alliance member.
2007 Swift Energy and Pertamina joined the PetroSkills Alliance.
2008 PTTEP, Woodside Petroleum, Baker Hughes became members of the PetroSkills Alliance.
2009 BG Group, Nexen Inc., and MOL Group joined with PetroSkills.
2010 Talisman Energy and Maersk Oil were added to the Alliance. 2010 Also marked the year BV Investment Partners, a private equity firm became a majority stakeholder in PetroSkills.[8] In 2010 PetroSkills announced the startup of PetroSkills O&M, a new joint venture with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).
2011 PetroSkills launched PetroCore, a browser-based application offering technical professionals in the oil and gas industry anytime, online access to PetroSkills course materials and other technical knowledge resources.[6][6]
PetroSkills has also partnered with TTG Systems, John M. Campbell & Company, the University of Trinidad & Tobago, and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology