The Management of Dangote Oil Refinery Company (DORC) has embarked on training indigenous engineers to manage and operate the 650,000 barrels per refinery and petrochemical plan due for commissioning in 2019.
The company has so far trained about 150 engineers in different section of refinery operation and more trainer are going to be sent abroad for training before June this year.
The company's Director of Human Capital Management and Project Support, Mohan Kumar, who made this disclosure in Lagos at the media briefing last week, while presenting the 22 engineers who returned from Mumbai India for to the management of the company.
He said the young engineers were trained at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. in India on how to manage the operations of the refinery. He added that the engineers had gathered fundamental practical knowledge about refinery.
According to him, the engineers are recruited and trained to witness the building of the refinery from scratch.
He said the engineers spent two months in classroom training and three months on the job training.
Kumar explained that the 22 engineers were trained by experts who had over 45 years’ experience in refinery operations, stressing that the training became imperative due to the commitment of Dangote Group to promote local content by developing indigenous capacity.
He added that "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, Mumbai in India, where the last set of 150 employees trained in various areas of petroleum and petrochemical refining."Kumar noted that another set of 600 engineers would be sent for training before the end of April.
The Technical consultant to Aliko Dangote on refinery and petrochemical projects, Babajide Soyode, said there were plans to recruit about 900 engineers in preparation for take off of the Dangote refineries project.
Soyode said the training exercise began in 2015 when first batch of 50 engineers were sent to India for the training after which another batch of 30 engineers were sent for similar training while another batch of 30 engineers would be going in March, with another 30 scheduled to attend in April.
These are aside additional 50 being planned for such training by Dangote Petrochemical (Fertilizer) plant.
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