The inaugural Human Capacity Development Conference + Expo of the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria. A working summit where regulators, operators, indigenous trainers, and academia map the workforce that will deliver Nigeria's energy decade.
Executive Secretary · Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB)
The OGTAN HCD Conference + Expo is the inaugural national gathering of Nigeria's oil and gas training community. Convened by the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria, it brings together every layer of the country's training ecosystem under one roof for the first time.
Accredited training providers. Learning and development professionals. Instructional designers. HSE trainers. Simulator engineers. Technical educators from PTI and the polytechnics. The Nigerian edtech founders reimagining how energy workers are taught. This is the room.
For three days at PTI Effurun, OGTAN members and the wider Nigerian training community sit together to do what has never been done in one place: align our country's training capacity around the future skills the oil and gas industry actually needs, and decide what training in Nigeria should look like for the decade ahead.
The discipline our community practices is changing fast. Learning technology has moved on. Accreditation standards are being rewritten. Operator expectations of trainer output have shifted. Nigerian training providers are being measured against international benchmarks in ways they were not before, and the responses must be coordinated, not improvised.
This conference is where Nigerian trainers stop competing in silos and start collaborating on standards. Where modern training methods become Nigerian capability — built here, applied here, recognised internationally. Where the community speaks with one voice on what the workforce of the next decade requires.
This is the room where the Nigerian training community sets its own agenda. The output is a working communiqué from OGTAN, signed by the membership, on the floor.
Why Warri. Warri sits at the heart of Nigeria's oil and gas heartland. Surrounded by the country's most active production assets, refineries, flow stations, and service company yards. It is the city where Nigerian crude has been pumped, refined, traded, and trained on for over half a century. The Niger Delta produces the barrels. Warri is its commercial and operational capital. There is no city in Nigeria more synonymous with the oil and gas worker than Warri, and there is no city that should host the country's first dedicated HCD conference.
Why PTI. The Petroleum Training Institute at Effurun is the institutional birthplace of Nigerian petroleum training. Established in 1972 by the Federal Government, PTI has produced generations of the engineers, technicians, instrumentation specialists, drilling crews, HSE professionals and process operators who keep Nigerian energy assets running today. To host an HCD conference anywhere else would be a contradiction of the agenda itself.
Convening at PTI is a deliberate statement: that the future of Nigerian energy training will be designed where the work actually happens, on the ground that produced the workforce we already have, and the one we now have to build. The campus also gives us direct access to live training infrastructure — labs, workshops, simulators — that brings the agenda into the same building as the practice.
Delta State Government joins as host state partner. The Welcome Barbecue on Day One closes the day at the PTI Hall.
Two days, six communities, one venue. Here is what you can expect across the agenda and the expo floor.
A relationship building round at a Delta State course on opening day. Limited to 60 players across sponsors, trainers and senior delegates. Trophy presentation at the clubhouse.
Day One · 25 AugustOpening reception at the PTI Hall on Day One evening. Live Highlife band, regional cuisine, and the most relaxed network in Nigerian energy training.
Day One · 19:00The state of Nigerian training. The new HSE competency standard. The future of accreditation. Each plenary closes with a working commitment captured in the OGTAN communiqué.
Day Two & ThreeA curated exhibition floor of Nigeria's most respected indigenous training providers. Fifty plus exhibitors. Live demonstrations of curriculum, simulators, certifications and accreditation portfolios.
Expo FloorNigerian edtech founders, simulator builders, and field trainers. Twelve shortlisted training innovators pitch live to a jury of operator L&D heads and investors. Winners receive an OGTAN development grant.
Day Two & ThreeA dedicated plenary celebrating the women shaping Nigerian energy training, with mentorship breakouts and dedicated networking circles. Convened in partnership with WIM and WIE Nigeria.
Day Three · PlenaryThe closing event of the inaugural HCD Conference. A black tie Grand Dinner recognising excellence in capacity development across trainers, training providers, and individual lifetime contribution to Nigerian energy talent. The night the year's standard bearers are named.
Day Three · Closing Night · 19:00Nigeria's leading training providers, learning designers, edtech founders, and the senior figures driving the Nigerian HCD agenda. Twenty plus featured speakers across two days.
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All rates in Nigerian Naira. Invoice raised against company. Bank transfer or card on confirmation.
The inaugural HCD Conference is an audience of decision makers: ministerial leadership, the three federal energy regulators, the operator C suite, and Nigeria's training institutions. Sponsorship is how your brand is in the room when the workforce of the next decade is being designed.
We can structure category sponsorships around the Golf, Welcome Barbecue, Awards Dinner, Innovation Pitch, or Women in HCD plenary.
Booth placement matters. We will send you the full PDF floor plan with current availability, footprint dimensions, shell scheme specifications, and pricing for every category from headline pavilion to Trainers' Hub stand.
Complete the form and we will send your invoice and confirmation within 48 hours. Limited capacity at PTI Effurun. Register early to secure your place.
The OGTAN HCD Conference + Expo is the most concentrated gathering of Nigerian energy decision makers in 2026. We are opening accreditation to broadcast networks, industry trade press, online publications, podcasts, and creator media that cover Nigerian energy, capacity development, education and policy.
Send us your media kit, audience profile, and proposed coverage angle. Accreditation closes 31 July 2026.
media@ogtan.org.ng Request Accreditation →Working journalist or accredited correspondent? Apply for a single delegate press pass.
press@ogtan.org.ng Apply for Press Pass →Early bird pricing applies to all delegates whose payment is received on or before 15 July 2026. Standard rates apply to payments received from 16 July onward. Register and pay early to lock in the early bird fee.
Full access to all three conference days, conference materials, networking lunches, Welcome Barbecue access, and for Non Member delegates, a seat at the HCD Awards Ceremony.
We have negotiated preferred rates with hotels in Effurun and Warri. After registration you will receive a delegate pack with the full accommodation directory, booking codes, and shuttle schedule from selected hotels to PTI.
Yes. Sponsorship tiers from Bronze upward include exhibition booth allocation. Members enjoy discounted booth rates. The Sponsorship section above outlines what is included at each level. Email sponsors@ogtan.org.ng for the full prospectus.
The Technical Sub Committee led by Mrs Ibiene Okeleke reviews all speaker proposals. Submissions close 31 May 2026. Send a 250 word abstract and short bio to speakers@ogtan.org.ng.
Invoices are issued in Nigerian Naira. You may pay by bank transfer or card on receipt of your invoice. International delegates can request an FX inclusive invoice.
Full refunds are available until 31 July 2026. From 1 August onward, registrations are non refundable but fully transferable to a colleague at the same organisation.
Yes. The Golf Tournament runs on Day Zero (24 August) at a Delta State course. Field is capped at 60 players, prioritising sponsors and senior delegates. Register your interest at golf@ogtan.org.ng.