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Page 12 The Northeast ONG Marketplace By: Heather Eisiminger, Training Facilitator, CONSOL Energy A gem in the heart of the Marcellus/Utica shale play in Washington County, PA, CONSOL Energy has opened its doors to the community with a state-of-the-art Gas training facility providing best-in-class training for the O&G community. With renovations completed in 2015, the nearly 24,000 square-foot CONSOL Gas Training Academy provides seven classrooms and meeting rooms, as well as breakout areas for group collaborative learning. Each classroom offers individual food prep and instructor offices allowing a completely independent and unique training opportunity. e Training Academy is designed to accommodate both large and small groups while maintaining a comfortable atmosphere and learning experience. Each training space offers its own unique amenities from mounted projectors to speaker microphones and magnetic white boards running the length of the rooms. e Gas Training Academy offers the latest technology in training such as wireless presentation with Smart features allowing writing and highlighting on presentations while presenting with an instructors monitor in the rear of the classroom. e Gas Training Academy was designed with O&G hands-on training in mind. Among the technical training capabilities at the academy is a fully functional pipeline, from the well head to a pigging receiver. is pipeline allows training on measurement, purging, pressure testing, pigging, odorization and valve operation and maintenance. e operations room has a height of twenty-four feet with a garage door and epoxy floor allowing the classroom to be designed around large and cumbersome field equipment with blended indoor and outside learning experience capabilities. Outside the main building within the spacious parking lot the Gas Training Academy houses the latest in hands-on fire simulation. is simulator operates on liquid propane with instructor controls providing live fire extinguishing exercises for natural gas ground, well head, pan, split pipe and flange fires. “We created this facility to enhance the training and development opportunities that we have available for our employees and to continue improving our safety and compliance performance,” said Kurt Salvatori, Vice President of Human Resources. “Aſter we began operations at the facility, we realized that with its great space and perfect location we could offer the same opportunities to our industry partners and to the general public.” e Academy offers a wide variety of training options and services. Aside from CONSOL-hosted compliance and safety courses open to the public, the classrooms and conference space can be rented by the public for training sessions or meetings. e facility will also be the site of the majority of PetroSkills course offerings in the Pittsburgh region for 2016, among other top training professional organizations. Locating the Gas Training Academy in Washington County made perfect sense and has made it the East Coast hub for O&G training. From a geographic perspective the Training Academy is located in the center of the Marcellus and Utica shale development and CONSOL’s own O&G operations. e Training Academy is located just two and half miles off the I-70/79 exchange in Washington, PA. Opening the facility to the public further demonstrates CONSOL’s commitment to safety and training. e Gas Training Academy provides a needed service to the industry and our service partners enhancing the skill of the Appalachian Basin workforce. By opening the academy to the public and providing a central training location, employees from the industry can come together in the region to grow and expand safety, technology and industry knowledge within the O&G operations. For more information about the rental space and services available at the Gas Operations Training Academy please contact [email protected] or view the upcoming training programs on the website at https://consolenergy. frontdeskhq.com . CONSOL ENERGY OPENS GAS TRAINING ACADEMY TO COMMUNITY INDUSTRY INSIGHT
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Page 12 The Northeast ONG Marketplace
By: Heather Eisiminger, Training Facilitator, CONSOL Energy
A gem in the heart of the Marcellus/Utica shale play in Washington County, PA, CONSOL Energy has opened its doors to the community with a state-of-the-art Gas training facility providing best-in-class training for the O&G community.
With renovations completed in 2015, the nearly 24,000 square-foot CONSOL Gas Training Academy provides seven classrooms and meeting rooms, as well as breakout areas for group collaborative learning. Each classroom offers individual food prep and instructor offices allowing a completely independent and unique training opportunity. The Training Academy is designed to accommodate both large and small groups while maintaining a comfortable atmosphere and learning experience. Each training space offers its own unique amenities from mounted projectors to speaker microphones and magnetic white boards running the length of the rooms. The Gas Training Academy offers the latest technology in training such as wireless presentation with Smart features allowing writing and highlighting
on presentations while presenting with an instructors monitor in the rear of the classroom.
The Gas Training Academy was designed with O&G hands-on training in mind. Among the technical training capabilities at the academy is a fully functional pipeline, from the well head to a pigging receiver. This pipeline allows training on measurement, purging, pressure testing, pigging, odorization and valve operation and maintenance. The operations room has a height of twenty-four feet with a garage door and epoxy floor allowing the classroom to be designed around large and cumbersome field equipment with blended indoor and outside learning experience capabilities.
Outside the main building within the spacious parking lot the Gas Training Academy houses the latest in hands-on fire simulation. This simulator operates on liquid propane with instructor controls providing live fire extinguishing exercises for natural gas ground, well head, pan, split pipe
and flange fires. “We created this facility to enhance the training and development opportunities that we have available for our employees and to continue improving our safety and compliance performance,” said Kurt Salvatori, Vice President of Human Resources. “After we began operations at the facility, we realized that with its great space and perfect location we could offer the same opportunities to our industry partners and to the general public.”
The Academy offers a wide variety of training options and services. Aside from CONSOL-hosted compliance and safety courses open to the public, the classrooms and conference space can be rented by the public for training sessions or meetings. The facility will also be the site of the majority of PetroSkills course offerings in the Pittsburgh region for 2016, among other top training professional organizations.
Locating the Gas Training Academy in Washington County made perfect sense and has made it the East Coast hub for O&G training. From a geographic perspective the Training Academy is located in the center of the Marcellus and Utica shale development and CONSOL’s own O&G operations. The Training Academy is located just two and half miles off the I-70/79 exchange in Washington, PA. Opening the facility to the public further demonstrates CONSOL’s commitment to safety and training. The Gas Training Academy provides a needed service to the industry and our service partners enhancing the skill of the Appalachian Basin workforce. By opening the academy to the public and providing a central training location, employees from the industry can come together in the region to grow and expand safety, technology and industry knowledge within the O&G operations.
For more information about the rental space and services available at the Gas Operations Training Academy please contact [email protected] or view the upcoming training programs on the website at https://consolenergy.frontdeskhq.com .
CONSOL ENERGY OPENS GAS TRAINING ACADEMY TO COMMUNITY
INDUSTRYINSIGHT
