OREANDA-NEWS. February 27, 2012. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) announced that 18 National employees have successfully gained the OPITO approved Competence Assessor Award International Certificates from the OPITO Oil & Gas Academy, reported the press-centre of KPO.

KPO Management Team is committed to providing a robust Competence Management System that will provide real and lasting benefits to KPO, its employees and the Republic of Kazakhstan. 

These benefits include:

Reduction in severity and frequency of incidents and accidents;

Training of National employees for getting knowledge, experience and improving skills to carry out their tasks safely, efficiently and consistently;

Improvement staff performance and motivation;

Implementation of the tools of supporting staff development within the Organization;

Production improvement.

 The vision is for the Competency Management System of KPO to achieve OPITO accreditation and to this end; KPO is at present applying for OPITO approval of its overall Competence Management System (CMS) meaning it will be the first Oil & Gas Production Company in Central Asia to obtain OPITO certification and only the fourteenth worldwide.

In addition to the above, KPO is training National personnel on an ongoing basis to be accredited with the same internationally recognised OPITO Assessor Qualification in support of implementation of the CMS.

From December ’10 to date, 75 National employees of Production & Maintenance have been trained. In total at the moment 42 National employees from 75 above mentioned have successfully gained the OPITO approved Competence Assessor Award International Certificates from the OPITO Oil & Gas Academy.