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  • Students groan as institute ends exams

    Students groan as institute ends exams

    Students of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, have finished their first semester examination.

    During the exercise, the management changed the sitting arrangement by making the students to sit individually on a seat. This was against the normal practice, which had two students sitting on a bench.

    Students, who spoke to CAMPUSLIFE, expressed mixed feelings about the examination. While some were satisfied with the conduct, others lamented the strictness of the invigilators.

    A student in ND II Welding and Fabrication Department, said: “This examination is the toughest I have ever written in this school. I wrote it with adequate attention as if I was just admitted into the school. After my first paper, I knew I was totally on my own, and so I had to do my best.”

    Another student in Petroleum Engineering Department, Peter Chiwenke, said the examination for him was “cram, pour, refresh the brain and start cramming again for the next course”.

    A student, who spoke under anonymity, said: “I could not write very well as the examination conditions were not favourable.”

     

  • Club donates digital clocks to institute

    Club donates digital clocks to institute

    After years of changing batteries and manually adjusting the analog clock tower in the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), the Junior Chamber International (JCI) has acquired two digital clocks for the clock tower, which is located at the centre of the institute.

    The clocks were inaugurated during a ceremony attended by the Director of Engineering, who represented the Principal of the institute, Dr. K.I Idehen, Chief Librarian, Dr Evelyn Dudu, the Students’ Affairs Officer, Elizabeth Udisi, and a senior lecturer of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department, Mr Abdulhamid Musa. Members of the club were also in attendance.

    Idehen praised the efforts of the students, urging them to continue to render service to humanity. He also encouraged the club’s members to sustain their excellent leadership skills and selfless service throughout their life time, saying such gesture was what the nation needed to move forwards.

    The club’s Director of Projects, Blessing Abebe, said that members were committed to make the institution grow faster. He thanked the management and students for supporting the initiative of the club.

  • Training for PTI students

    Training for PTI students

    The Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) chapter, has held a free technical, self-development and potential maximisation training for students.

    A senior staff in the Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Department of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr Andy Adesuwa, took the participants through the techniques of exploration.

    The president of the association, Jones Umoh, said the training was organised for students to discover their potential. He said the training would help participants to know and appreciate other people’s temperament, and thus enhance job performance when they leave the school system. Jones added that the seminar was the first of its kind in the institute.

    A participant told CAMPUSLIFE the seminar has taught how best to engage a colleague to achieve productivity in his discipline.

     

  • PTI chief lists achievements

    PTI chief lists achievements

    THE Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, Mrs Clara Dennar, has said the institute has trained over 350 ex-militants in various skills since inception, adding that all the graduates have been employed.

    She spoke at the Long Service Awards of the institute. She listed the achievements as the computerisation/online registration and checking of the institute’s entrance examination results; students online courses registration; regular power and water supplies on campus; installation of Drillsim 6000 and Test-Sim 500, the latest oil drilling and production sims in the world; training of 260 youths in collaboration with United Nations Development (UNDP)/UNOPS; SPE Student chapter adjudgement as the most vibrant in the country; mentioning of the institute in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and the industrial peace on campus.

    She said: “In spite of these achievements, there are so many challenges still lying ahead. As you are awre, the oil and gas sector is undergoing a holistic transformation, especially the Petroleum Industry Bill(PIB) currently before the National Assembly. We must rise up to the challenges and play active role to meet the yearnings of our regulator, and aspirations of the oil and gas sector. The growth and development of the PTI as a trainer of competent technical manpower for the oil and gas sector, lies squarely on the shoulders of us all. I wish to assure you that management is committed to the transformation of PTI into a beacon of hope for the oil/gas and allied companies. I implore you to put your wealth of experience to bear in order to realise the institute’s vision and mission. For the institute to take its pride of place among the comity of oil companies, it is absolutely imperative that we all work harder to achieve this noble objective.”

    On the event, Mrs Dennar said: “As I said at the outset, the Long Service Award Ceremony is held in honour of staff members who have served the institute meritoriously in the various milestones. You have contributed greatly to the growth of the institute. Your deeds speak for you far better than anything I will say. I know you hope as I do that his occasion will remind you and your family of the appreciation and esteem in which we all hold you, and our thanks to you for your loyal service.”

  • Local content: PTI boss lauds NLNG

    THE Acting Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Petroleum Training Institute, Mrs N. C. Dennar, has praised the management of NLNG for supporting the institute to achieve its objectives.

    She spoke at a workshop for training managers of oil and gas and allied companies and PTI in Port Harcourt.

    She said: “I must add that effective and fit for purpose training is a critical part of this process. There must be a clear understanding of the unequivocal role that the training function is called upon to play in shaping the future outlook of the industry. This is the reason the training managers’workshop is critical to us, to provide a forum to brainstorm on the needs and aspirations of the industry in line with modern technological trends.”

    In a lecture entitled: ‘’Building internal capacity for future sustainability – the NLNG experience”’, a Human Resources Manager with LNLG, Dr Yahaya Lawal, stressed the importance of capacity to the sustenance of businesses. He listed the various the different methods, processes and models by LNLG in building its capacity.

    In a communique, the participants urged PTI, among others, ‘’to initiate strategic partnership with professional bodies, such as SPE, NAPE and the Federal Ministry of labour to obtain international certification for its industry-related courses and that the state-of-the-art equipment installed under the PTDF upgrade project to provide a crucial basis for acquiring self-accreditation.”

  • PPPRA responsible for fuel scarcity, say Reps

    PPPRA responsible for fuel scarcity, say Reps

    • To investigate N39.6b mdgs funds

    The House of Representatives has blamed the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) for contributing to the persistent fuel scarcity in parts of the country by its slow payment of claims to oil marketers.

    The lawmakers accused the agency of being too slow in processing payments to suppliers. It also stated that oil theft has contributed to the scarcity currently spreading round the country.

    Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside, said the PPPRA could not absolve itself from the recurring fuel scarcity because the agency has no issues with release of its funds from the Federal Ministry of Finance.

    The Committee, during its preliminary status report on the level of implementation of the 2012 budget of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) in the petroleum downstream sector, met with the agency, Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) and the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) over the weekend.

    He said: “The legislative arm of government is putting the interest of Nigerians first before any other interest, whether we are rightly understood or not. We must find a relationship between the fact that funds are released to your MDA and that the Nigerian people are beginning to feel the impact of budgetary provisions.

    “All the fund PPPRA asked for has been released, yet we still have long queues everywhere because marketers are not being paid. It is taking a longer time to verify claims.

    “Our pipelines are permanently under threat by vandals and oil thieves, and it has affected the supply of petroleum products to various depots and by implication, fuel stations.”

    While he decried poor fund releases to PTI which he noted has led to cases of several capital projects being abandoned, “PTI Warri has not performed very well,” he lamented.

    “They are in the neighborhood of 45 per cent in terms of releases and implementation of the 2012 budget. Theirs appear to be very challenging because they have a lot of projects that are getting to be abandoned.

    Meanwhile, the House Committee on Millennium Development Goals, MDG, wou;d this week embark on fact finding mission to states to ascertain the extent to which the 39.6 counterpart funding allocated federal and states governments, in the 2011 budget was spent on poverty alleviation, health, environment control and educational programmes that are pro- poor under the MDG.

    The House Committee Chairman on MDG, Ado Alhassan Doguwa, in Kano State, said those found wanting in the supervision process will be dealt with in accordance with the constitution.

    He explained that N550 million was given to each of the 36 states in the 2011 budget under the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) by the Federal Government and they were expected to provide an equivalent of that amount as counterpart funding for projects jointly pursued by the two tiers of government under the MDGs.

    He maintained that the money which is part of the annual budget of $1 billion development debt relief fund granted to the country in 2003 by the Paris club, is usually given to the state governments because they are close to the people, adding that the same window has been provided in the 2012 annual budget.

    For 2012, Doguwa stated that the House of Representatives, using the Club 360, which denotes each of the 360 elected members of the house, has been allocated N30 million to execute projects that will directly have impact on the poor.”