As part of our Local Content Development Plan and commitment, Axess Petrorig Ghana have recently fully engaged a Ghanaian Inspection Engineer as a key member of our Risk Based Inspection (RBI) team for RBI campaigns offshore Ghana and abroad. We are currently ahead of schedule to localise our RBI team for campaigns offshore Ghana.

Axess plans to send our Ghanaian Engineer to our headquarters in Norway for further skills development with the international RBI engineering team. This move will actualise Axess’ strategic objective to employ Ghanaians as Lead RBI Engineers for follow up surveys, both in Ghana and in Axess Group’s international projects.

Currently with 50% Ghanaian participation on our RBI project, Axess remains committed to investing in our Ghanaian staff and giving more opportunities to Ghanaians to develop their skills and knowledge, in order to fast track localisation of advanced inspection and RBI Engineering.

For more information, contact our Ghana office at [email protected].

Axess Petrorig Ghana has successfully arranged a ‘hydraulic bolting proficiency and awareness’ training last month at Takoradi base, as part of its significant commitment to local content skills development and skills transfer programme.

Ten Ghanaian technicians are now better prepared for a 6-month hydraulic bolting contract for a key gas infrastructure development project in Ghana. The selected candidates for the training course are highly experienced mechanical technicians, who exhibited promising skills that can be developed.

We continue to boost our local content strategy by investing in technical development programmes, which in return provide utmost value and safety to our customers’ operations.

For more information, contact our team at [email protected] 

Axess Petrorig Ghana hosted a technical training course for 10 Ghanaian staff on 5th to 13th June 2018, as part of its commitment towards our local content development.

David Thomson, Senior Training Specialist, from Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) flew in from the UK to facilitate the training. The focus was on General Lifting Equipment and its requirements for inspection. This event is not only fitting to the entity’s current operations, it also allows further localisation, improvement and broadening of professional knowledge and skills.

Alex Owen, Country Manager of Axess Petrorig Ghana , said: “Our staff will be able to use this qualification both in Ghana and internationally, allowing for internal secondment of Ghanaian staff into other Axess entities. With this successful event, we are looking forward to hosting further LEEA training courses to both new and advancing candidates in the future.”

For more information, contact our Ghana office at [email protected]

As part of our commitment to local content in Africa, we have conducted a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Training and Assessment for ten local technicians in our Accra, Ghana office in 11-14 September 2017.

Selected participants will be part of our Ghana and international inspection teams. This event aims to increase the use of local talents to carry out specialised work scopes and naturally form a part of a long-term sustainable business model.

Our NDT Department Manager from Cape Town, Johan Bloembhof, facilitated the event, which covered theoretical NDT training and practical applications.

Alex Owen, Axess Ghana Country Manager, said: “We plan to increase the skill sets of our local technicians to ensure that they remain up-to-date with the latest technology and service standards in the oil and gas industry. This will be an ongoing process—subsequent internal and external training will be provided to ensure compliance with Axess and Class procedures.”

In the African context, the objective of local content legislation is to allocate knowledge, skills and economical value to the local workforce, in compliance with the law, as well as to allow efficiency when operating businesses locally.

Contact us for more information about our NDT-related projects and training.