training of russian personnel to work on , and offshore in the oil and gas industry

Training of Russian personnel to work on, and offshore in the oil and gas industry.

2005-2007

Trond Haukanes

BERGEN GROUP OFFSHORE

KIRKENES: Kimek Offshore

HANØYTANGEN: Hanøytangen

HAMMERFEST: MURMANSK: Engineering

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Facilities

Main Office in Kirkenes

Presentation of

Specialist Training Program for Russian Workers.

Supported by:

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Background• Statoil and Kimek Offshore took the initiative to this

program. This initiative was taken in recognition that the increasing activity in Oil & Gas exploration in the Barents region will lead to an increasing need of skilled workers. Companies that are bidding for Oil & Gas contracts in Russia mostly have to use Russian workers to carry out this work.

• As a result of this training program this workers also will have the qualification needed to work at Norwegian Oil & Gas project

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Organising • The project was organized with a project steering

group consisting of Kimek Offshore, Statoil ASA Innovasjon Norge and Barentssekretariatet.

• On Russian side our partners was, The State Educational Establishment Training Centre in Murmansk and the technical college ,Lyceum no 6.

• The theoretical part was take place at the training center and the practical training at technical college ,Lyceum no 6.

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English

Specialist training

Project Steering Group

Project managment

Kimek offshoreNorway

Statoil ASA Innovasjon NorgeBarents-sekretariatet

Scanning of candidate

Candidate

Kimek Offshore Norway

Other NorwegianCompany

OtherRussianCompany

Kimek OffshoreRussia

Project

schematic project description

Norway

Russia

Subcontractors

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Basic• The plan was to take up to 250 candidates through the

program. When the course was finished, we had managed 150. This was unfortunately due to lack of interest from other Norwegian companies to be partners in the project.

• The candidates should be skilled in their profession and be able to document their knowlege level by showing certificates or exam paper’s from relevant schools befor enetring the program.

• The candidate’s present level of English was also important to verify during the scanning process

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Type of profession that was planned to train

• Welders (TIG) • Pipe fitters• Plate fitters• Insulating• Scaffolding• Painters• Electricians (due to different rules, could not

be done)

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Time Schedule• First candidates was planed to take part in

the English courses during April/May2005.• It will be arranged a courses every third

month.  • The plan is that courses will be continuing up

to summer 2006.

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First step• After candidates have gone through the

scanning procedure they are ready for the training program.

• First they was going through an English course that was taken. 4 week.

• During the English courses it was implemented HSE for Oil and Gas construction work.

• In the end of the courses an exam was held.

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Second step• After the candidates have passed their

English exam, they was invited to take part in the practical training.

• The practical training lead to a site test or certification, making the candidates able to work on Western or Russian on-offshore project’s.

• This training period was going over a period of 2 to 5 weeks, depending of type of profession.

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Working Possibilities.• The candidates that has passed first and second phase

in the program, was offered a job in Kimek Offshore or a company related to Kimek offshore. Some of the candidates was also offered work at other companies.

• Of the first group, 6 Russian welders from Kimek Offshore was working at Hammerfest LNG for AkerKværner. This first 6 welders showed Norwegian oil and gas industry that Russian experts held very high class! Zero welding defects during 6 months!

• The success of the first 6 welders, opened up for that in a period more than 60 Russian experts worked at Melkøya LNG for Kimek Offshore.

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• Snøhvit – Hammerfest LNG

Customer: Aker Kværner Stord

Foto: Statoil

Customer: Aker Solutions

Foto:Hydro

Ormen Lange• Titanium welding• Pipe fitters• Engineers

• H6e ‘Spitsbergen’ and ‘Barents’, «Gjøa»• Welding, Pipe fitting, mechanics, engineers

Customer: Aker Solutions

• The success of this project provided us with inspiration to that start a training program with graduates Russian engineers.

• We implemented a training program for 6 engineers that went over 3 years.

• 3 of them still works for us and 2 for other Norwegian companies, and one working in a Russian company in Severodvinsk

Today, approximately one thirdof the approximately 200 employees at Kimek and Kimek Offshore areRussian

SEVGIPRORYBFLOT

The company hasToday 14 employees10 of them are Senior engineers.

SEVGIPRORYBFLOT SCOPE OF ACTIVITY TODAY

- Designing and documentation for vessels of different kinds:

• · Fishing, transport vessels, tugboats, offshore vessels etc; • · Modernization of systems and pipelines; • · Development of emergency plans for oil spill removal; • · Development of plans for pollution prevention; • · Works on fulfilling requirements of all International conventions and

agreements MARPOL-73/78, SOLAS-74/83, MPPSSС-72 etc., for all types of vessels.

- Technical service for maintenance and ship repair:

Development of documentation for maintenance, technical repair and technology for production of spare parts for gears and equipment.

Thanks for the attention!