Petronas, Honeywell sign agreements to boost technical education efforts
KUALA LUMPUR – Petronas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) to build on a 24-year partnership between the two parties in the Petronas Vocational Institution Sponsorship and Training Assistance (VISTA) program, an initiative targeted to enhance technical and vocational capabilities for Malaysian talents in the oil and gas industry.
The MoU was signed by Petronas Senior Vice President of Group Human Resource Management, Dato’ Raiha Azni Abd Rahman and MARA Deputy Director General (Education), Abd Halim Abbas.
Under the MoU, the VISTA program will be extended to include Institut Kemahiran MARA (IKM) Bintulu that will join the existing institutions under the program, namely IKM Sungai Petani, Kedah, IKM Tan Sri Yahaya Ahmad in Pekan, Pahang, IKM Jasin, Melaka and IKM Kota Kinabalu in Sabah.
Speaking at the event, Dato’ Raiha Azni said, “Petronas is pleased to strengthen its long-standing collaboration with MARA. Through this partnership, IKM students will be able to obtain valuable technical knowledge and training with good infrastructure.
Since the inception of VISTA in 1992, the program has benefited more than 4,000 students.
Meanwhile, on 10 November INSTEP also signed an MoU with Honeywell to continue their partnership in further strengthening the quality of training at INSTEP’s state-of-the-art Upstream and Downstream Training Plants (UDTP).
In 2015, INSTEP and Honeywell had collaborated under the partnership at the UDTP, to train a total of 34 participants from PetroVietnam Nghi Son refinery in preparation for the refinery start-up in 2017.
An enhanced eight-week international program, which is inclusive of a three-week hands-on training at the UDTP, will be introduced in 2017.
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