01 · Find it
Every tag and its route
Every valve, instrument and breaker in your equipment register carries its tag. Click one for where it is, the walking route to it and how it is locked.
Interactive 3D equipment training, built from your plant’s own documents
Train your people on the machine itself.
The Upskill Energy Training Academy is interactive 3D equipment training for oil and gas, LNG, power and process plants, built from your own manuals, drawings and procedures, so your people learn the plant before they set foot on it.
3D MODEL / CUT OPEN / RUNNING
01Why it mattersREF / INDUSTRY RESEARCH
Know-how is the difference.
Maintenance, isolation and restarts are the work where knowing the plant matters most. Here is what published research, not our own results, says about that work and about learning in 3D:
44%
of 183 major accidents in US and European process plants were linked to maintenance.
Okoh and Haugen, 2014 · source36%
of the most serious (Tier 1) upstream process safety events put down to human performance involved control of work and isolation.
IOGP data, IChemE Hazards 32, 2022 · source81 min
on average to restart a large plant after an unplanned stop, up from 49 minutes five years earlier. A skills and knowledge gap is one of three causes named.
Siemens, 2024 · source76%
higher learning gain for university students taught one lesson with a desktop 3D simulation rather than a lecture, still held 40 days later.
Bonde et al., Nature Biotechnology, 2014 · source02Try it nowREF / RUNNING IN YOUR BROWSER
Take the controls.
This is the real Upskill Energy Equipment Explorer, running in the page. Start it and explore on your own, or pick a task.
Runs in your browser · Loads in a few seconds · Nothing to install
Watch the filmsThe live explorer runs on a laptop or desktop
Loading the explorer
03The Equipment ExplorerREF / ONE MODEL, THE CORE TASKS
Four jobs, one model.
A tag number means nothing until you can find it, and the isolation, the alarm response and the start checks live in different documents. So we put them on the machine, where the work is.
02 · Make it safe
Isolation from any point
Pick the job, or any valve or breaker. Every section is coloured live, trapped or isolated, and the isolation is checked on the model.
03 · Respond
Alarms, start checks, faults
What an alarm means and where the sensor is, why a machine will not start, and a fault traced one safe question at a time.
04 · Prove it
A course, then an assessment
A step-by-step course on the model, then an assessment on situations not seen before and a walkdown with the tags hidden.
It explains. Your people decide. Isolations, resets and entry stay with your procedures, your permit to work and your authorised people.
How it works, in sixty seconds.
Short silent films of the machines that keep a plant going, cut open and running, made from the same models as the explorer.
04Get startedREF / ONE MACHINE FIRST
Start with one machine.
Three steps, from a first look to your own people training on it.
01
See it
A live demonstration of the explorer, about 30 minutes, with your questions answered.
02
Pick one machine
The one your new starters struggle with most. We build it from your manuals, drawings, equipment register and procedures, to a fixed scope agreed before we start.
03
Train and hand over
We train your people and your trainers, then hand over the explorer with its workbook, assessment and job aid. It runs offline, on your own systems.
Key facts and questions.
The short answers buyers ask for first. There are more on the questions page.
- Who
- Upskill Energy, founded by Calum Johnson. Upskill Advisory LLC (Qatar Financial Centre, QFC No. 05346, Doha) and Upskill Energy Limited (England and Wales, Company No. 16511479).
- What
- Interactive 3D equipment training, built from your own manuals, drawings, equipment register and procedures.
- For whom
- Operators, technicians and their trainers at oil and gas, LNG, power and process plants.
- Where it runs
- Offline, on your own systems. The public demonstration runs in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop.
- Where we work
- Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
- How to start
- One machine, to a fixed scope and a fixed price agreed before we start.
What is the Upskill Energy Training Academy?
Upskill Energy, based in Doha and the UK, builds interactive 3D equipment training from each plant’s own manuals, drawings, equipment register and procedures. Its Training Academy covers tags and access routes, isolation, alarm response, start checks, guided fault finding and competence assessment for oil and gas, LNG, power and process operators, and runs offline on the client’s own systems.
Do we need VR headsets?
No. The Upskill Energy Equipment Explorer runs on an ordinary laptop or desktop: in a web browser for the demonstration, and offline on your own systems for your build. There is nothing to install for the demonstration and no headset to buy, clean or approve, so a whole class can use it at once.
How is it different from an operator training simulator?
An operator training simulator is a software model of a plant and its control system on which control-room operators practise start-ups, upsets and shutdowns. The Training Academy works on the field and maintenance side instead: the physical machine, its tags, access routes, isolations, alarms, start checks and faults. The two complement each other.
Where does it run, and does our data leave site?
Your build runs offline, on your own systems, and answers questions from your own manuals and procedures. Once it is handed over it sends nothing off site. The public demonstration on this website runs in your browser and uses demonstration machines, tags and documents only, never client data.
Does it replace our procedures or permit to work?
No. The Training Academy teaches the plant and points to the governing documents, but it does not authorise any task, isolation, reset or entry. Your procedures, your permit to work and your authorised people decide what is done, and a qualified assessor at your site signs competence. We do not certify anyone.
How do we get started?
Start with a live demonstration of about 30 minutes, then pick one machine, usually the one your new starters struggle with most. We build it to a fixed scope and a fixed price agreed before we start, then train your people and your trainers and hand over the explorer with its workbook, assessment and job aid.