17 Aug 2006
Cogent SSC Ltd is delighted to announce that we are now able to include the Oil & Gas industry within our main Sector Skills Agreement. The Oil and Gas (upstream) industry have faced pressing skills challenges over recent years, and anticipated the aims of the SSA process, by researching and establishing the “Pinch Points” project. This has demonstrated how SSAs can work in practice, by leveraging substantial employer investment for training to meet specific industry needs.
When Cogent commenced its SSA process for its sector industries, the ‘pinch points’ project was well underway, and it was therefore appropriate that the Oil & Gas industry continued to progress this work as a priority. As Cogent focussed the SSA work on its other four industries we captured evidence relevant to the Oil & Gas industry which complemented the research data from the “Pinch Points” project. Over the same period, Cogent’s subsidiary organisation, OPITO, and the Oil & Gas Industry Leadership Team (ILT) have been involved in a programme of informing and negotiating with stakeholders for many months. Many stakeholders will already have discussed how best to meet the needs of the Upstream Oil & Gas industry in meetings with OPITO and ILT personnel such as David Doig, Pete Crowther, Annette Thomas and Celia Mackie.
Following a meeting of the ILT, on July 26th, the decision was taken to formally bring the Oil & Gas SSA work back within the main Cogent SSA now that the process has reached a more mature stage. By combining and developing this the “pinch points” data with existing SSA data Cogent will be able to ensure that the skills needs of the upstream industry are comprehensively presented within our SSA stage 1-5 documents.
All five of Cogent’s industries will now be reflected within our Sector Skill Agreement reports which will be completed as planned by the end of September 2006. We look forward to discussing this positive development with stakeholders.
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