Sabah lacks oil-gas sector skills: Don

June 28, 2016

And after all the effort to make Sabah a spin-off of Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Hub.

Dateline 2016-06-02, Daily Express:

Despite Sabah having abundant oil and gas (O&G) resources, there is a lack of skilled technical Sabahan manpower in the O&G industry.

This situation was highlighted by Professor Ir. Dr Rosalam Sarbatly (pic), the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in his presentation “Challenges and opportunities in developing the skill and talented human capital in oil and gas sector in Sabah” at the 5th Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition recently.

Dr Rosalam is also the executive director for UMS Oil & Gas Sdn Bhd (UOil).

“This is compounded by a lack of interest among many local students in science, technology engineering and mathematics, particularly from rural areas,” Dr Rosalam explained, pinning his hopes on rural area students, as more urban students tend to opt for prestigious professions like architecture, medicine, law, accountancy and others.

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Sabah’s O&G industry needs 25,000 skilled workers: UMS

December 24, 2015

Dateline 2015-11-20, Daily Express:

Sabah’s oil and gas industry needs about 25,000 skilled workers at a high-end level right up to managerial level. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Faculty of Engineering Dean Prof. Dr Rosalam Sarbatly, who disclosed this, said there is a huge shortage of skilled manpower in the industry as several oil and gas projects in the State have to import such workers from overseas to cater to their manpower needs.

“The percentage of locals with those high-end skills for the oil and gas industry in Sabah is very small whereby we are lacking local manpower in high-tech skills such as those concerning seismic and underwater tasks.

“However, about 70 per cent of locals are in the low-end technical skills like blasting, painting and coating.

“That is why UMS came into the picture and is collaborating with certain bodies that issue internationally recognised certifications so as to address the shortage in high-tech skills,” he said.

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