Company Overview
As an independent training company TTC provides training solutions “Taylormade ” to suit your staff and field operationsneeds. As such, we are not limited to the scope outlined in our training contents and TTC would welcome the opportunity to become your training partner of choice. TTC enjoy’s a positive relationship with the majority of the major equipment manufacturers, which enables TTC to train on a wide variety of tools and equipment.
- Providing customized course design specific to a clients need
- Training of their personnel to train internally
- Provision of training packages and material
- Assessment of training needs (TNA) and training the “gap”
- Assessment of skills and monitoring of competency based training
- Training matrix software to track future training and provide audit trail for training.
- “Franchise” training packages – while monitoring exam papers, updates, licensed use of material on-going revenue stream)
The original TTC was established in 1986 with offices in Oman, Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia. Bob and his instructing team provided specialized training to oil operating companies, primarily Shell and Arco (now BP). The TTC Wireline Operations Manual became widely used for training and reference.
Training was conducted at a wide range of operational locations in the Middle East. SE Asia and the USA.
RJT BIO
Bob graduated in New Zealand in 1972 with an NZCE and 4 year fitting & turning apprenticeship completed. He started his oil industry career in the North Sea in 1974 as a trainee driller with Forex Neptune (now Transocean SedcoForex). From the cold of the North Sea Bob moved to the Philippines to work on a geothermal project at Tongonan, Leyte.
In 1976 Bob joined Otis Engineering, now part of Halliburton Energy Services, and became a slickline operator also involved with well testing, completions, snubbing and coil tubing operations. For the last 4 years with Otis Bob was a training instructor at their Singapore Training Centre and also seconded to Shell in Oman to set up a training facility.
Bob set up TTC in Singapore in 1986, before oving to Perth in 1993 and combining TTC with Catco until it was sold in 1998. Bob returned to offshore consulting for 2 years, until early 2000 when he transferred to Houston as Global Training Director for Weatherford. He was based at their Training and Technology Center and also responsible for the RigTrain facility in Aberdeen. This unique facility had 2 rigs, 4 wells, classrooms and workshop facilities. Annual student attendances grew to 6000 per year.
While in the USA Bob was a keynote speaker at the National Energy Rubber Conference in Dallas in 2007 and also addressed a select committee of the API on Computer Based Training (CBT) at the API National Conference in San Antonio in 2006. Bob is the technical author of a series of CBT wireline modules in 10092 – which are still available via Technomedia International. [www.petroed.com]
Bob returned to Perth in 2008 as SE Asia Regional Manager for Hunting Energy Services, until re-launching TTC in October 2009.