Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee Ltd (ADITC) Capability Statement

Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee Ltd (ADITC) was formed by industry in 1978, came to its current form in 1982 and has been in continuous operation.

This industry body has national responsibility for the direction of industry training and qualifications for the Drilling Industry in Australia. It delivers advisory and lobbying services, and also provides research and training/assessment services on- and off-shore.

As part of its provision of support to the drilling industry, ADITC is also a Registered Training Organisation, National Provider Number 2200, providing training and assessment services to the drilling industry across all sectors and for all qualifications, within and outside Australia. ADITC Ltd is registered against the National Drilling Industry Training Package DRT03 and against the National Drilling Industry Training Package DRT98.

The Board and Full Committee consist of approximately 20 representatives at Managing Director/President level of companies from each sector of drilling, and President/ Chairman of relevant stakeholder bodies eg: International Association of Drilling Contractors – Australasian Chapter; AWU; Australian Drilling Industry Association; Australasian Society for Trenchless Technology; Australasian Contaminated Lands Consultants’ Association; Piling and Foundation Specialists Federation; National Groundwater Committee of ARMCANZ.

The industry has eleven sectors, all represented within the Board and Full Committee – seismic, geotechnical, environmental, mineral exploration, mineral production (including raiseboring), waterwell, oil, gas and geothermal drilling onshore and offshore, foundation/ construction drilling, horizontal directional drilling / trenchless technology and blast hole drilling. Coal seam methane drilling is a developing branch of mineral production drilling.

ADITC is located in Sydney, NSW and has a branch office in Coolgardie, WA.

Selected current and completed tasks of ADITC Ltd:

Negotiation and management of industry development of agreed national competency standards and qualifications structure for the Australian and New Zealand Drilling Industries (which did not have formal qualifications available) DRT98 (1998)
Review and redevelopment of the above as DRT03 (2003)
Negotiation of agreement on common qualifications and common competency standards for Australia and New Zealand with the Australian and New Zealand Governments and relevant bodies (1998 and 2003). This is the first common qualifications structure across the two nations.
Formal recognition as the recognized body for advice on vocational education and training for the Drilling Industry to the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training until amalgamation of roles of such bodies in January 2004

Development and ongoing management of examinations for all classes of national Driller’s licensing for waterwell drilling Australia-wide

Drilling, the Manual of Methods, Applications and Management (the industry’s primary reference text)
Drilling Terms and Calculations
Basic Mathematics for the Drilling Industry
Get your message across: Communicating for Team Safety
Guide for the National Driller’s Licence Examinations

Development and national accreditation of a range of industry training resources and assessment resources for the Drilling Industry including

Training Core Skills and Assessing core skills videos for trainers
16 training resources at Certificate II and III level in plain English including. Functional Mathematics, Workplace Communication

Provision of assessment services for the award of national qualifications

Development and delivery of short technical training courses including

Screens and Gravel Packing
Mud Techniques and Tests
Purpose-designed courses

Development, maintenance and delivery of 13 module distance learning course which delivers underpinning knowledge for qualifications up to Certificate IV (Senior Driller) level. This course also provides a basis for the delivery of traineeships in Drilling

Provision of research services and reports including

Determination of national requirements for stainless steel tubing (feasibility study for establishment of Australian manufacturing plant)
Surveys of the vocational training needs of the drilling industry
Demographic surveys of the drilling industry
Industry requirements for national competency standards and qualifications
Industry requirements for the development of training provision
Mapping of company training to national competency standards requirements

Current active committee membership of industry and government advisory bodies/authorities

National Uniform Drillers’ Licensing Committee (and chairmanship in prior times) (since inception)
Training Package Working Party of RIISC for review of Drilling Industry Training Package (competency standards and qualifications)
Resources Industry Reference Group of the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training’s Institute of Trade Skills Excellence(since 2006)
Queensland advisory committee to Department of Natural Resources Petroleum Inspectorate (since 2006)
NSW Advisory Committee for selection of formal Training Awards (4 years)

November 2007