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Leadership in Oil and Energy Certificate Programme

The Leadership in Oil and Energy Certificate Programme (National Qualifications Framework Level 7), accredited and delivered by Wits Business School, is an industry-wide intervention designed to create a pool of diverse and highly skilled employees with petroleum industry knowledge and excellent business management skills. Through the programme, industry is ensuring a representative talent pipeline into senior management positions. Since the programme’s inception in 2006, a total of 263 industry employees have graduated. In 2009, 66 participants enrolled in the programme of which 89.4% are black and 77.3% are women employees.

Click on the links below to find out more about the industry Leadership in Oil and Energy Certificate Programme and how to apply for the 2011 programme intake.

2011 Timetable Cape Town (122 KB)

2011 Timetable Johannesburg (143 KB)

Application and Self Assessment Form (682 KB)

CHIETA beneficiary form (56 KB)

Employer Declaration Form – Cape Town Programme (679 KB)

Employer Declaration Form – Johannesburg Programme (676 KB)

Line Managers Review Form (556 KB)

LOE Information for Applicants (682 KB)

Programme Prospectus (240 KB)

Click here to see the list of Past Graduates

Identifying scarce and critical skills

SAPIA conducted research across its member companies to identify the demand for scarce skills across SAPIA member companies between 2007 and 2010 and identify required learning interventions to breach these industry identified skills shortages. Major findings show that a robust learning infrastructure with appropriate petroleum industry learning interventions is required to ensure the sustainability of skills into the future. Participating member companies included BP Southern Africa, Chevron South Africa, Engen Petroleum, PetroSA, Sasol Oil, Shell South Africa and Total South Africa. Member company refineries and blending plants such as Blendcor, Natref and Sapref were also included.

There are 128 scarce occupations across the 24 value chain areas of the petroleum industry. The total projected demand for people resources within these occupations is 1 892 based on respondent submissions. This represents an increase of 16.2% on the combined industry workforce of 11 682 as determined in 2008.

The 12 core value chain areas account for 83% of total projected demand. Manufacturing is the value chain area with the highest demand for people resources to fill scarce occupations, followed by logistics. Combined, these two value chain areas have 60% of overall demand for people resources across the industry.

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Process plant operator qualification

The petroleum industry has a skills shortage of process plant operators. To address this skills shortage, SAPIA worked with the Department of Education to direct curriculum content for technical students to qualify as process plant operators at National Vocational Certificate Levels 2, 3 and 4. The industry will also plan to develop a petroleum, oil and gas module that will help those seeking to qualify as process plant operators to understand process operations in the manufacturing and refining areas.