First meeting of Oil and Gas Sector Skill Unit Governing Board held – Times of Oman

First meeting of Oil and Gas Sector Skill Unit Governing Board held – Times of Oman

Muscat: The first meeting of the Oil and Gas Sector Skills Unit (SSU) Governing Board meeting was held at the headquarters of the Oman Society for Petroleum Services (Opal) recently in the presence of representatives of the sector and relevant government organisations, adhering all COVID-19 pandemic safety measures.

This meeting comes after many years of hard work that led in December 2019 to the licensing of Opal by the Occupational Standards Centre (OSC) as the Sector Skills Unit for the Oil and Gas sector. It particularly comes as a result of great effort from the Human Resources Committee for the In-Country Value under the auspices of Ministry of Oil and Gas and its initiative to enhance the national framework by developing professional standards for the sector.

This then paved the way to the adoption of the SSU as one of the labour market and employment initiatives in the National Economic Diversification Programme through the Occupational Standards Center at the Ministry of Manpower.

Abdul Rahman Humaid Al Yahyai, CEO of Opal, explained that this license is the first of its kind in the Sultanate and a milestone for establishing entities which represent various economic sectors, enabling them to take charge of monitoring the structure