A NEW collaboration that brings two major operators together with a energy e-learning firm is aiming to raise standards and improve training levels across the UK and wider North Sea oil and gas sector.
The joint venture between Spirit Energy, Neptune Energy, and Norwell EDGE will deliver a digital Well Integrity training programme based around Oil and Gas UK’s (OGUK) well lifecycle guidelines and Norwell EDGE’s own technical e-learning technology.
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The training will enable the leading North Sea Operators to deliver a standardised course of e-learning for Well Integrity, similar in concept to the Minimum Industry Safety Training (MIST) across their international workforce.
The goal of the collaboration is to help boost knowledge and standardisation in safety-critical areas such as Well Integrity, with the hope that additional operators will join the initiative over the next 12 months.
Willem Boon von Ochssee, Spirit Energy principal well engineer, said: “The benefits of a wider programme of Well Integrity training is something Spirit Energy has been promoting for a while now and, with the change in how we are all working, we recognised the need to accelerate the move to a digital platform.
“The idea for a ‘common’ Well Integrity programme satisfying the OGUK guidelines came out of a Well Integrity Workgroup discussion and it was something we were very keen to see move forward.”
The e-learning approach will harness the latest digital training techniques and will blend a variety of teaching methods including micro-learning, animation, video, quizzes and 3D virtual game scenarios to significantly boost user engagement and knowledge retention when compared with traditional methods.
The digitisation of the programme will allow operators to ensure personnel can easily access consistently high quality Well Integrity training no matter where they are in the world, regardless of whether they are working from home or their workplace and at a time that fits around other work demands.
Mike Hartley, Well Integrity TA, at Neptune Energy, said: “The course gives professionals who were unable to access specific well integrity training a tool that they can rely on to boost their knowledge and, as a result, take a more active role in the assurance of well integrity.
“We are hoping that this will become a resource that all operators can tap into to improve competency across our industry.”
Mike Adams, Norwell EDGE co-founder, said: “This type of initiative is exactly what should be happening in our industry, operators coming together, collaborating on projects to pool resources for an end product that will have current and future benefits across their organisations and the wider sector.”
