Endress+Hauser and UT-PETEX announce training collaboration

“Along with our partner Vector Controls & Automation Group, we are excited to collaborate with PETEX and deliver a combined complementary basket of training classes to customers in the Gulf region,” said Jerry Spindler, Customer Training Manager, Endress+Hauser. “Our common goal of investing in the skills and advancement of the workforce aligns well. Workers in the industry now have a world-class location where they can continue their technical education.”  

The PTUs are full-scale, working process skids with functional instrumentation and controls in a real-world environment. Trainees gain hands-on experience with the types of configuration, operation, diagnostics, and troubleshooting found in actual process plants. This specific PTU features working gas and liquid systems and is equipped with more than 200 modern Endress+Hauser devices along with a variety of the latest instrument configurations, communication protocols and software.

Roger T. Bonnecaze, Interim Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering, noted, “For over 75 years PETEX has been providing talent development resources and courses for the global oil & gas sector. With the significant investment that Endress+Hauser has made in the Houston facility to build one of their renowned PTU’s and create world-class classroom space, it made complete sense for PETEX to collaborate with them to bring those resources to our learners."