Halliburton has announ- ced that it had collaborated with Petronas in setting up a Technical Excellence Center (TEC), a highly specialised upstream oil and gas training facility at the site of the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) in Malaysia.

The TEC, which provides specialised training support in geology and geophysics to new graduates and oil and gas professionals, is the first to be set up by Halliburton outside of North America.
Rosti Saruwono, Petronas’s vice president (education division), said, “One of the main challenges that the exploration and production industry faces is its ageing expertise and the need to develop its human capital to extract the best out of the technology and its assets.
“Petronas is, therefore, looking to industry service providers to assist us in training and developing local resources.
“Halliburton is an established global service provider with training centres dedicated to the development of highly specialised learning for new graduates in the United States, and we are proud to be collaborating with them to establish this TEC in Malaysia at Petronas’s own university.”
Mark McCurley, vice president in Halliburton’s Production Optimisation Division, said,  “This is a major commitment by Halliburton for a training facility in the Eastern Hemisphere, which is the largesteconomic and energy consumption growth area in the world today.”