APPEA's skills partnerships

Resources Industry Training Council for WA

Since 2009, APPEA has been working with the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy – through the Resources Industry Training Council joint venture – to give the state government strategic advice on workforce planning. This has included identifying:

• the top 10 critical skill shortages affecting the resources sector.
• barriers to training in addressing those skill shortages
• barriers to diversity within those identified positions
• proposed strategies to increase numbers of qualified personnel.

Petroleum engineering education – a national approach

APPEA and the Australian universities offering petroleum engineering degrees have discussed possible mechanisms to:

• attract and retain high-quality lecturing staff
• achieve sustainable numbers of students
• provide local capacity to deliver degrees across Australia while delivering the benefits of a national approach.