The largest producer of offshore oil and gas in China has become the country’s first organisation certified to train workers to Opito safety standards.
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) achieved the internationally-recognised approval this summer and it’s anticipated that more than 1,000 employees will be certified within the first year.
CNOOC has operations in the South China Sea as well as being involved in LNG storage activities within the Tianjin port district of the Bohai Sea. Internationally, it has assets in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Oceania and Europe.
The training centre and its satellite facilities are based in the city of Tianjin where up to 40,000 CNOOC workers are based. It obtained Opito approval after meeting the criteria set out by the global, not-for-profit, skills organisation for the energy sector over nine months.
The approval will allow the company to introduce employees safety issues and regimes relevant to offshore installations and equip them with the basic emergency response knowledge and skills for travelling offshore by helicopter.
Opito chief executive John McDonald said: “This is very good news for CNOOC and the wider global industry. It’s extremely reassuring to see this scale of investment in safety training which will benefit workers all over the world.”
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