"Cooperation with business gives unique results and opportunities if one combines efforts with creative modern businessmen. One of such unique examples of not just a modern top manager, but a strategist and innovator is Ihor Vitryk, Director of Wellsite Digital LLC.
Our history of cooperation in the field of education has begun with a visit to high-tech training centers in Aberdeen, after which a state-of-the-art training center for oil and gas specialists was opened at the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic". The cutting-edge equipment and certified IWCF courses in, without exaggeration, the production capital of Ukraine, have become available to specialists and students on the basis of the Polytechnic. The next point was a visit to Baku and the beginning of cooperation with the most modern drilling training center in the Caspian Basin region.
Nevertheless, the concept of lifelong learning encourages us to stay on the wave of innovations and find modern solutions in time. Therefore, we went on a working trip to the Netherlands with an educational mission, – commented the rector of the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", Professor Volodymyr Onyshchenko. – We have started cooperation with one of the newest educational institutions for oil and gas specialists – the Dutch Well Academy, which has representative offices on 3 continents. Our delegation, which is actively developing and increasing the quality of oil and gas education in Ukraine for both future specialists and already experienced practitioners, visited the head office in Appeldorn and a powerful training center for drilling and well service specialists.
In addition to certified training courses, which are updated every 3 (!) months, we got acquainted with the work peculiarities of the training simulators.
As a result of negotiations on behalf of the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", I have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Cooperation with Well Academy and Wellsite Digital. From now on, students of the Educational and Research Institute of Oil and Gas and the College of Oil and Gas of Poltava Polytechnic have the opportunity to undergo a certified internship in the Netherlands, and the means of the Wellsite Digital training center will expand!
I thank to the Director of Wellsite Digital Ihor Vitryk for consistent and persistent joint work on the creation in Poltava the best educational and technological conditions for the education of oil and gas professionals on the basis of the Polytechnic!
Without overstating it, we collect the best world experience and achievements in order to work with the personnel of the extractive industry, so the Educational and Research Institute of Oil and Gas of Poltava Polytechnic is the leader of specialized education in Ukraine. Investment in development and education is the foundation of future prosperity!"
The Well Academy was founded by industry professionals to increase productivity in the extractive industry. In 2012, Dutch specialists pioneered the implementation of human-based drilling modeling trainings and for almost ten years they developed them and then offered innovative educational solutions.
"The memorandum provides for the use of licensed training materials that meet IWCF requirements. A significant advantage is that the IWCF education and certification program developed by Well Academy is constantly updated in accordance with the latest international standards. We declare with confidence that we guarantee the preparation and education of oil and gas specialists at the highest level," – added Ihor Vitryk.
Director of Education Development Jan Willem Flamma told about a wide range of accredited and non-accredited drilling and well services courses. Well Academy set a benchmark with the help of new curricula, they experiment, and constantly improve existing curricula. Coaches teach to work in various complex environments, such as high-temperature high-pressure drilling, extended-range drilling, well decommissioning, and even separately instruct novice crews on drilling rigs.
Regional Director of representative offices in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the America, George Galloway described the Academy's team as a diverse group of experienced drilling, well service and engineering specialists. Coaches with extensive practical experience strive to improve the competence and confidence of people in the workplace by increasing the level of safety through knowledge. Therefore, the Academy expands its educational offerings and constantly increases its team around the world, while maintaining leadership in the development of training courses and education.
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