How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.
These are the units NOCN registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Carry Out Operator Maintenance on Drilling Plant and Equipment Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to carry out routine maintenance on drilling plant and equipment
- Explain the procedures for carrying out routine maintenance on drilling plant and equipment
Conduct a Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment of the Drilling Operation Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct a health risk assessment of a drilling operation
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct a safety risk assessment of a drilling operation
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct an environmental risk assessment of a drilling operation
- Explain the process of conducting a health, safety and environmental risk assessment for drilling operations
Conform to Efficient Working Practices in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to conform to efficient working practices in the workplace
- Explain the importance of conforming to efficient working practices in the workplace
Contribute to Maintaining Health, Safety and the Environment in the Drilling Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute to maintaining health and safety in the drilling workplace
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute to maintaining a safe environment in the drilling workplace
- Explain how to contribute to maintaining health and safety in the drilling workplace
- Explain how to contribute to maintaining a safe environment in the drilling workplace
Contribute to the Specified Drilling Programme Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute to the specified drilling programme
- Explain the importance of contributing to the specified drilling programme
Drill Holes to Specification and Operational Requirements Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to drill holes according to specified drilling specifications
- Demonstrate the ability to drill holes according to operational requirements
- Explain the importance of adhering to drilling specifications
- Explain the importance of adhering to operational requirements when drilling
Locating and Identifying Underground Services Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to locate underground services using appropriate techniques and equipment
- Demonstrate the ability to identify underground services accurately
- Explain the methods used to locate underground services
- Explain the procedures used to identify underground services
Measure and Set Out Dimensional Control for the Drilling Requirement Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to accurately measure dimensions for drilling requirements
- Demonstrate the ability to set out dimensional control points for drilling operations
- Explain the importance of accurate measurement in drilling operations
- Explain the methods used to set out dimensional control for drilling
Operate and Control Drilling-Related Powered Plant or Machinery Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Safely and effectively operate and control drilling-related powered plant or machinery.
- Understand the procedures for operating and controlling drilling-related powered plant or machinery.
Prepare and Operate Powered Units, Tools, Pedestrian Plant, Machinery or Equipment Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to prepare powered units, tools, machinery or equipment for operation.
- Demonstrate the ability to operate powered units, tools, machinery or equipment.
- Explain the procedures for preparing powered units, tools, machinery or equipment for operation.
- Explain the procedures for operating powered units, tools, machinery or equipment.
Receive and Organise Materials and Equipment for the Drilling Activity Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to receive materials for the drilling activity.
- Demonstrate the ability to organise materials for the drilling activity.
- Demonstrate the ability to receive equipment for the drilling activity.
- Demonstrate the ability to organise equipment for the drilling activity.
- Explain the procedures for receiving materials and equipment for the drilling activity.
- Explain the procedures for organising materials and equipment for the drilling activity.
Reinstate the Drilling Area of Operations and Complete Works Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to reinstate the drilling area of operations.
- Demonstrate the ability to complete works in the drilling area.
- Explain the procedures for reinstating the drilling area of operations.
- Explain the procedures for completing works in the drilling area.
Set up Protection and Safety Equipment for the Work Area Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to set up protection equipment for the work area.
- Demonstrate the ability to set up safety equipment for the work area.
- Explain the procedures for setting up protection equipment for the work area.
- Explain the procedures for setting up safety equipment for the work area.
Undertaking Mud, Slurry or Fluid Plant Operations in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to undertake mud, slurry or fluid plant operations in the workplace.
- Explain the procedures for undertaking mud, slurry or fluid plant operations in the workplace.
Unload and Load Mobile Plant and Equipment from Transportation Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Safely unload and load mobile plant and equipment from transportation vehicles.
- Understand the procedures for unloading and loading mobile plant and equipment from transportation vehicles.
Use of Technologies to Support Drilling Operations Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise technologies effectively to support drilling operations.
- Understand how various technologies can be used to support drilling operations.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Assist in the preparation of blowout preventors (BOPs) and high pressure testing operations
- Standard
Carry out derrick operations in support of drilling
- Standard
Carry out mud, slurry or fluid plant operations
- Standard
Carry out risk assessments and understand control measures in the offshore oil and gas industry
- Standard
Carry out routine maintenance on drilling plant and equipment
- Standard
Carry out tripping operations in drilling
- Standard
Co-ordinate and Organise Work Operations
- Standard
Conduct a health, safety and environmental risk assessment of the drilling operation
- Standard
Conform to Efficient Work Practices
- Standard
Contribute to casing and tubing in drilling operations
- Standard
Contribute to health and safety in the drilling workplace
- Standard
Contribute to health, safety and environment in the workplace in offshore crane operations
- Standard
Contribute to safety, health and environmental protection
- Standard
Contribute to the Effectiveness of Work Activities within Safety Services
- Standard
Contribute to the Health and Safety of the Working Environment
- Standard
Contribute to the development and maintenance of a health and safety culture at the workplace within safety services
- Standard
Contribute to the development of drilling workforce and working relationships
- Standard
Contribute to the maintenance of working environment to conform with statutory and organisational requirements within safety services
Showing 18 of 64 standards these units map to.
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Carry Out Operator Maintenance on Drilling Plant and EquipmentConduct a Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment of the Drilling OperationConform to Efficient Working Practices in the WorkplaceContribute to Maintaining Health, Safety and the Environment in the Drilling WorkplaceContribute to the Specified Drilling ProgrammeDrill Holes to Specification and Operational RequirementsLocating and Identifying Underground ServicesMeasure and Set Out Dimensional Control for the Drilling Requirement
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Carry Out Operator Maintenance on Drilling Plant and Equipment” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Conduct a Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment of the Drilling Operation” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assist in the preparation of blowout preventors (BOPs) and high pressure testing operations
- Carry out derrick operations in support of drilling
- Carry out mud, slurry or fluid plant operations
- Carry out risk assessments and understand control measures in the offshore oil and gas industry
- Carry out routine maintenance on drilling plant and equipment
- Carry out tripping operations in drilling
- Co-ordinate and Organise Work Operations
- Conduct a health, safety and environmental risk assessment of the drilling operation
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Carry Out Operator Maintenance on Drilling Plant and Equipment, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit equips learners to perform routine operator maintenance on drilling plant and equipment, including inspections, fluid level checks, lubrication, and defect reporting. Learners will understand the purpose and importance of maintenance activities.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 2 Diploma in Drilling Operations
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Carry Out Operator Maintenance on Drilling Plant and Equipment
- Conduct a Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment of the Drilling Operation
- Conform to Efficient Working Practices in the Workplace
- Contribute to Maintaining Health, Safety and the Environment in the Drilling Workplace
- Contribute to the Specified Drilling Programme
- Drill Holes to Specification and Operational Requirements
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
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