About Us
ASET (Aberdeen Skills and Enterprise Training) 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:
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
• CAA and ROC Accredited
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 fields 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 first to provide training in a number of specialised areas that include:
• Dynamic Positioning (since 1984)
• Offshore Stability and Ballast Control (since 1987)
• Marine Operations of Jack-Ups (since 1991)
• ‘Ex’ Competence Based Training for Electricity in Hazardous Areas (since 1991)
• ATEX (since 2001)
• Simulated High Voltage and Low Voltage Switching (since 1997)
• Marine HV Training (since 2000)
• Production Operations (since 2000)
• Process Operations (since 2000)
• Emergency Response Training and Assessment (since 2000)
• Maintenance (since 2000)
• Technicians Training Programmes (since 2000)
• Area Classification Services (since 2001)
• e-Learning Development and Instructional Packages (since 2003)
• Health & Safety Training
• Transportation.