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| LtoR: Soloman Almadi, Ph.D., Senior Engineering Consultant at Saudi Aramco; Eid M. Al-Hajri, MD, Managing Director of Jubail Industrial College; Patrick Gouhin, ISA Executive Director and CEO; Abdullah Alkhalifah, Senior Engineering Consultant with Saudi Aramco’s Process and Control System Division and President of ISA in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA); and Khaled Abusalem, Senior Engineering Consultant with Saudi Aramco’s Technology Management Division. |
The Jubail-ISA Training Centre brings ISA’s globally recognised automation and control instruction—as well as its certification review and certificate program courses—to Jubail Industrial City, the largest industrial city in the Middle East and home to one of the world’s most advanced industrial and engineering complexes.
“With the opening of the JIC-ISA training center, the college has achieved yet another milestone toward its mission of bringing standards-based automation training and skills instruction on modern industrial technology to the region,” states Eid M. Al-Hajri, MD, Managing Director of Jubail Industrial College. “By partnering with ISA to establish the center, we’re able to help engineers, technologists and technicians in the region improve their capabilities, skills and knowledge in the essential areas of instrumentation and control, and engineering and technology.”
A throng of KSA officials and industry leaders—including ISA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Gouhin—attended the center’s official opening on in early October 2016.
“The formal opening of the Jubail-ISA Training Center was immensely exciting and a landmark event for all of us at ISA,” Gouhin says. “We are privileged to collaborate with Jubail Industrial College to make ISA training easily accessible to the companies and workers in this economically vital region of the world.”
Many prominent representatives of Saudi Aramco, the KSA’s national petroleum and natural gas company, also attended the opening and highlighted the center’s importance in preparing more workers for the area’s growing number of high-tech jobs.
“With the continued growth that we have seen in this part of the world, automation and a skilled automation workforce are central to continued economic sustainability and advancement,” asserts Soloman Almadi, Ph.D., Senior Engineering Consultant at Saudi Aramco. “The opening of the Jubail-ISA Training Center plants the seeds for a powerhouse platform that will play a major role in our vision and future for industry.”
“Simply put, this is a dream come true,” expresses Abdullah Alkhalifah, Senior Engineering Consultant with Saudi Aramco’s Process and Control System Division. “Having access to world-class automation training and certification programs—right in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s major oil and gas hub—is a major milestone and something that industry in this part of the world have been waiting a long time for. This will undoubtedly lead to the development of a new generation of automation engineers and professionals who will be able to serve the Kingdom and help meet its long-term objectives.”
Khaled Abusalem, Senior Engineering Consultant with Saudi Aramco’s Technology Management Division, says the ISA training center has the potential to serve as an “uncubator for applied research and technology evaluation and as a Saudi Arabia center of excellence in systems automation.”
He added that ISA certification gives workers an additional edge in the marketplace because it bestows an even higher level of skills proficiency and qualification—increasingly important for manufacturers seeking to improve quality, efficiency, safety and security.
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