00:00Students of the Drilling Academy at the National Energy Skills Center or NESC
00:04Technical Institute in St. Madeleine did not only get to listen to Energy
00:09Minister Stuart Young's address to them during his visit there on Tuesday. Using
00:14a model oil rig, two of the students spoke about what they learned in class
00:18about the failure of the blowout preventer or BOP that was partly blamed
00:24for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on
00:29April 20th, 2010.
00:59NESC's president, Kern Das, said that the center appreciated the Energy Minister's
01:03visit. Mr. Das also spoke about the NESC's plans for the future.
01:08So we are looking to go regional and Suriname and Guyana first. We need to
01:12re-engage Nigeria. Right now we are in conversations with a training provider
01:20in Nigeria who actually brought the last set of Nigerians here. So we're here and
01:26Guyana in particular. Before he toured the rig at the Drilling Academy, which is
01:30not used to drill for oil, the Energy Minister told the NESC students that
01:35there is a demand for their skills in and outside of Trinidad and Tobago. So I
01:39am thrilled today to see that NESC has kept true to what its mandate is but
01:46also to let you all know there's significant opportunities and everywhere
01:51I go in the world, if it's in the Middle East, in Doha, it is in Saudi Arabia, we go to
01:57Europe with the ProMun Group, you go to BP Shell, Metanex in Vancouver, all of them
02:04are proud to say how many Trinidadians they have in their operations. And many
02:09of them would have started just like you all students here at NESC doing
02:14something and then you get the opportunities. The NESC says its Drilling
02:19Academy features the only active drilling rig used for training students
02:24in the Western Hemisphere. Jule Brown, TV6 News.
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