Kenya Pipeline Company sets up training school in Kenya

The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has set up a local training school in a bid to cut down costs incurred in hiring foreign experts to work on the country’s oil and gas infrastructure.

This follows the launch of an oil and gas pipeline curriculum set to increase the country’s stocks of skilled laborers in the nascent sector.

The pipeline industry wants to end the routine of procuring manpower from foreign countries which has costed the country over Ksh. 3.6 million every month.

KPC managing director Joe Sang says that the youth of the country can do that job  under the local content provision like the imported labourers.

“As a company we’ve decided to have a school that we are going to train our young people on oil and gas courses,” Mr Sang said.

He says that the school will be located at its Morendat facility in Naivasha and will initially offer six courses.

“For the first year we’ll do it in Kenya and the in the second year we will invite students from Uganda, South Sudan and even Tanzania,” he adds.

The school will be first in the region and third in Africa after Algeria and South Africa.