Oil industry trainer opts for Absorb LMS from Omniplex

April 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd, (ADC Virtual Academy) a training company with facilities in Aberdeen, and which serves the petroleum industry worldwide, is co-ordinating its supply of training via the Absorb learning management system supplied by Omniplex.

ADC Virtual Academy designs and delivers operationally relevant short and long training courses and produces related technical manuals and documentation for the petroleum industry worldwide. Each year, the company trains some 1,000 people all over the world in the theoretical and practical aspects of understanding drilling equipment and well pressure control for drilling to ensuring - through in-house and externally-validated assessment processes - that they are ready for field operations using specific equipment and systems.

“In addition to technical proficiency, trainees need to understand health and safety as well as environment issues associated with their activities,” said Douglas Hay the Managing Director of ADC Virtual Academy.

“This makes it extremely important that we have an able and efficient learning management system (LMS) to not only make these courses available to learners but also to monitor the learners’ usage of the materials and assess their progress.”

ADC is using its own servers to host the Absorb LMS – developed by the Canada-based Blatant Media Corporation but supplied throughout Europe by the e-learning solutions provider, Omniplex. Omniplex is also providing ADC Virtual Academy with special training not only in how to operate the LMS but also in how ADC staff can train their clients to administer and interrogate the LMS.

Omniplex’s Stephen Miller explained: “Given the importance of the training which ADC Virtual Academy provides for its clients’ staff – from health and safety and environment points of view – those clients’ training managers also need to be able to access the LMS as administrators to ensure that their staff are complying with the various regulations.

“We’re finding that Absorb LMS is continuing to gain new clients who are migrating from legacy systems because of the way in which Absorb LMS evolves to match the client’s unique workflow - rather than forcing the client to adapt to the LMS,” he added.

Having supplied ADC Virtual Academy with the Absorb LMS last year, Omniplex - in the form of its managing director, Matthew Lloyd – was invited to speak about LMSs in general and Absorb in particular, at the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ conference, held in Aberdeen last month.

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About Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd

Established in 1985, Aberdeen Drilling Consultants (ADC Virtual Academy) designs and delivers operationally relevant short and long training courses and produces related technical manuals and documentation for the petroleum industry worldwide. ADC trains on average 1,000 people worldwide each year in the theoretical and practical aspects of understanding drilling equipment and well pressure control for drilling to ensure that they are ready for field operations using specific equipment and systems.

Aberdeen Drilling Consultants currently runs training programmes for companies, including both BP and Shell, which are aimed at enhancing the knowledge of the professional drilling and engineering staff. Customised training in drilling practices and technology, are carried out on a regular basis for clients worldwide. The company’s training services are complemented by an in-house ‘technical authoring’ function, comprising a technical writing project team and an internal graphics / IT department for the design, production and publishing of technical documentation.

About Omniplex

Omniplex is a leading provider of e-learning and related tools and services for:
•   informal learning (ad hoc, peer-to-peer, social learning),
•   formal learning (authoring solutions, learning delivery and tracking, and learning reinforcement) and
•   training, support, content development and integration services

Based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the UK, and in Montreal, Canada, Omniplex supports clients across Europe and North America.

Further information on Omniplex can be found at www.omniplex.co.uk and www.omniplex.biz

Further information from:

Matthew Lloyd, Omniplex Ltd, +44 (0)1442 275304 / 08444 120550; matthew.lloyd@omniplex.co.uk

Douglas Hay, Aberdeen Drilling Consultants Ltd, +44 1224 209123, dhay@adc-engineering.com

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com