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UK’s oil and gas training academy, ASET has announced that it has finalized a contract worth over £444,000 with Learning Resources Nigeria to train 23 Nigerians for a career in the oil industry. The contract is the outcome of a UK Trade Mission to Lagos, which ASET were invited to attend. The delegation comprised the UK’s leading technical and vocational training providers and equipment suppliers and was organised by TVET UK, which is working directly with the Nigerian Government to help deliver its nationalisation plans for the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

While in Nigeria, ASET Chief Executive Atholl Menzies, interviewed and assisted in the selection process of a group of Nigerian nationals to undertake specialist training to enable them to find employment in the industry. ASET will now deliver the 25 week Oil and Gas Technician Programme in mechanical and electrical disciplines to 23 Nigerian Nationals who arrived in Aberdeen this week. Atholl Menzies said, “ASET continues to underpin the training needs of the North Sea industry, but it also has an important role in fulfilling global demand for specialist training. Through expert tuition and the opportunity to work on training facilities which replicate industry-standard, by the end of their time in Aberdeen, the trainees will return to their country with new skills which will equip them for the demands of the industry.” Nigeria is the biggest producer on the continent. Pumping oil for over 50 years, it still has three times more in reserves than its nearest rival Angola. ASET International Oil & Gas Training Academy is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Aberdeen College, and is acknowledged worldwide as a specialist training provider within the Oil, Gas, Marine, Electrical, Transportation and Health & Safety industries. Since its inception in 1993, ASET has delivered oil and gas related and marine training in Aberdeen to operators and contractors in the UK Continental Shelf and to almost every area in the world where there is oil and gas activity, including the Middle East, North and West Africa and South America.