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Introduction

ASET Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Aberdeen College and is acknowledged worldwide as a leading international Oil & Gas Technician Training provider.

ASET acquired the Shell Operations training facility in February 2000, arguably the finest of its kind anywhere in the world. Together with our original facilities for Marine and Electrical training, we are now able to call upon an overall investment of resources in excess of £10M. Through our years and breadth of experience, we have become acknowledged worldwide as a specialist training provider within the following sectors:

• Oil & Gas Technicians Training Schemes
• Practical Skills Based, OPITO, SVQ, NVQ

• Customised Oil & Gas Technician Training Programmes
• Process, Mechanical, Instrumentation, Electrical

• Production Operations
• 'Live' Process Plant & Dynamic Simulation
• SVQ

• Maintenance and Process Operations
• Upstream & Downstream
• HNC, HND, SVQ, OPITO, C&G

• Emergency Response for CROs & OIMs (OPITO Approved)

• Management of Major Emergencies for Emergency Teams
• Fixed Platform, FPSO, Drilling, Onshore Plants

• Dynamic Positioning
• To NI Standards

• Semi-Submersible Stability
• Simulator - Actuated Table
• IADC & NI Accredited

• Marine Operations of Self-Elevating Platforms

• Marine Radio Operators Courses
• Maritime & Coastguard Agency Approved

• Ex Training for Hazardous Areas
• CompEx accredited

• HV/LV Switching
• Utilising 'Live' Electrical Plant
• C&G Accredited

• People & Business Management

• IT Skills

• Training Facility Design, Implementation and Consultancy

• Competency Assessment Systems

• Health & Safety

• e-Learning

• Transportation

• Over One Hundred Oil & Gas Related Short Courses Available

We can offer vocational-based oil & gas technician training programmes, either in the UK or overseas. Please find below a list of our capabilities for in-country training centre design & set up:

• Set-up and design in-country Oil & Gas Technician Training Centres
• Provision of in-country ASET instructors to deliver training & competence assessment based programme to client specification
• Set-up overseas Technician Training Centres
• Training centre design & consultancy
• Training needs analysis
• Establish & implement required training standards
• Functional specifications on required training equipment
• Provision of training materials (translated)
• Train the local trainers
• Certification & accreditation
• Provide the knowledge, skills and infrastructure for training technicians in-country to internationally recognized UK standards if required.

ASET provides a diverse range of further education and oil & gas-related vocational training, including theoretical and practical subjects at a number of levels. These include short courses (accredited by City & Guilds of London), Vocational Qualifications (VQs), Higher National Certificate (HNC) and Higher National Diploma (HND), as well as modern apprenticeship courses. We can also customise programmes in terms of training equipment or assessment materials to meet specific client requirements. Customised courses can be designed to meet the assessment criteria of awarding bodies.

ASET is an SVQ-approved training centre in the North-East of Scotland, and provides training for industry technician apprentices. Aberdeen College in conjunction with OPITO has created an Oil Industry Technicians Training Programme. This unique scheme is fully endorsed by the North Sea Oil Industry. The programme is titled the Offshore Petroleum Industry Technician Training Programme (OPITTP) and is a two year, full-time course comprising practical training and further education. Trainees who successfully complete it will achieve a portfolio of nationally accredited qualifications, including SVQs and HNCs at the appropriate levels.

ASET has capitalised on the wealth of resources and expertise available within Aberdeen, the oil capital of Europe. Our lecturers possess extensive industrial experience in their respective ?elds as well as appropriate academic and assessor qualifications.

Our unique training facilities have allowed us to achieve an impressive reputation in the delivery of Ex, HV/LV, Dynamic Positioning, Stability, Jackup, Radiotelephony, Oil-related Operations and Maintenance Technicians training courses worldwide. ASET was the ?rst to provide training in a number of specialised areas that include:

• Dynamic Positioning
  (since 1984) NI approved
• Offshore Stability and Ballast Control
  (since 1987) NI/IADC approved
• Marine Operations of Jack-Ups
  (since 1991)
• 'Ex' Competence Based Training for Electricity in Hazardous Areas
  (since 1991) CompEx approved
• ATEX
  (since 2001)
• Simulated High Voltage and Low Voltage Switching
  (since 1997) City & Guilds approved
• Production and Process Operations
  (since 2000) City & Guilds, SQA approved
• Emergency Response Training and Assessment
  (since 2000) OPITO approved
• Maintenance
  (since 2000)
• Technicians Training Programmes
  (since 2000) EAL, City & Guilds, SQA approved
• Health & Safety Training
  NEBOSH, IOSH approved
• Transportation
  NVQ approved

'To deliver, in partnership with other providers, a high quality education and training service, appropriate to
the lifelong learning needs and aspirations of its clients, in a diverse range of settings.'

Aberdeen College Mission Statement

ASET's parent organisation, Aberdeen College, is the second largest college of further education in Scotland and is located in the heart of Scotland's offshore oil and gas industry.

The College serves an extensive geographical area of around 60 miles north/south and 60 miles westward from Aberdeen itself. Aberdeen College offers over 4,700 programmes, from full-time HNDs to single units. Courses are delivered at the College's four main centres, in over 100 community locations, via distance learning and in the workplace, to over 28,000 different individuals a year.

The College has an enviable reputation for quality in the provision of further education, skills and vocational training. Its commitment to quality has been recognised by the achievement of a number of quality standards and awards, including:

• ISO 14001:2004 Standard for Environmental Management Systems
• EcoCampus Platinum Award
• A Herald Society Award
• Six UK Beacon Awards
• Customer Service Excellence Standard
• Investors in People (IIP) Standard
• Matrix Standard for the College's Guidance Service.

The College also received a 2009 Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. This National honour recognises world-class excellence, in any aspect of an institution's work, which demonstrates evidence of originality, innovation and benefit for the wider community. The College's successful entry was entitled "Delivering skills in the oil and gas industry and supporting community cohesion".