Skills are specific abilities that an employee has or may need to learn to perform their job role. Competencies extend beyond skills and are owned by employees with deep knowledge and mastered behaviors or capabilities. Ability™ is a flexible solution that considers skills, skill groups, and competencies. We don’t debate skills vs. competencies. We capture them all.
Our platform is designed to help both individuals and employers to manage, track, and analyze their strengths and opportunities for improvement in a qualitative, holistic manner.
In 1964, Alan P. Roberts and Thomas O. Allen delivered the first course session of Production Operations 1. In the following decades, they turned Oil and Gas Consultants International (OGCI) into an industry leader in exploration and production technical training.
In 2001, PetroSkills was founded by the formation of an alliance between Shell, BP, and OGCI. The mission of the alliance was to provide "important but not unique" competency-based training. Today, the alliance is comprised of dozens of member companies representing all facets of the petroleum industry.
To better serve the evolving energy industry and its customers, PetroSkills is evolving into The Competency Alliance, building on the methodologies we have used to become the leading provider of oil & gas training. The alliance is welcoming new members and is expanding into the Net Zero and Renewable sectors. The Competency Alliance is now grouped to cover three major energy sectors. As it has done for over 50 years, PetroSkills covers Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream oil and gas. NetZeroSkills includes Greenhouse Gas Management, Carbon Capture/Sequestration, and Hydrogen. RenewableSkills handles the Wind and Geothermal sectors.
The Ability suite of products and services has supplied an excellent mechanism to be more efficient in elements of our training program through tools that help us better target the application of employee technical training resources. The competency engine feature supports the clear definition of technical skills, competencies, and target proficiency levels in detail as well as the assessment and evaluation of technical competency allowing for targeted training content assignment and delivery based on current and predicted business need. On the individual employee level, it provides transparency for the individual employee to see and confirm current technical performance level status and expands their understanding and ownership of skill development in a platform that is user friendly and easily accessible.
- A major US based energy company
