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The National Energy Skills Centre Technical Institute wants to expand its oil drilling teaching services beyond Trinidad and Tobago.

The President of the NESC made the announcement during the Energy Minister's visit to the facility on Tuesday.

It was a visit that saw the students of the NESC delivering their own presentation to the Energy Minister.

Juhel Browne reports.
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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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