The Dangote Oil Refinery Company trained 150 engineers in India in preparation for the refineries completion.
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The Dangote Oil Refinery Company trained 150 engineers in India in preparation for the refineries completion.
(Safety & Health Magazine)The Dangote Oil Refinery Company has just concluded a training programme for 150 Nigerian engineers in refinery operations in preparation for the launch of the Lagos refinery and petrochemical plant.
This was disclosed by Mohan Kumar, the company’s Director of Human Capital Management and Project Support, at a news conference in Lagos as 22 engineers on the set who just returned from India were presented.
Kumar said the training programme was a continuum as more engineers would be trained to work effectively in the fertilizer plant being built by the company.
The engineers were trained at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited in India in the management of the operations of the refinery, adding that the engineers had acquired fundamental practical knowledge in refinery operations with a strong bias for the Dangote refinery spec.
Kumar said, “The engineers are recruited and trained to witness the building of the refinery from scratch. They spent two months in classroom training and three months on the job training, that is on different operating refineries in India."
“The 22 engineers were trained by experts who had over 45 years experience in refinery operations, and the training became imperative due to the commitment of the Dangote Group to promote local content by developing indigenous capacity.”
“The engineers are expected to also transfer the skills acquired to other Nigerians when the refinery takes off. The 22 engineers arrived from Bharat Petroleum Corporation in India, where the last set of 150 employees trained in various areas of petroleum and petrochemical refining.’’
Kumar hinted that another set of 600 engineers would be sent for training before the end of April as the refinery initiative remained a very critical project for the Dangote Group.
The Dangote refinery is expected to save Nigeria $12 billion annual import of petroleum products and create 4,000 direct jobs after completion.
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