Petroleum Agency SA Internships 2024 / 2025

Petroleum Agency SA Internships 2024 / 2025

Deadline: 13 September 2024

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Petroleum Agency SA Internships

The Agency is offering an internship opportunity funded by the Mining Qualifications Authority (MQA) for three (3) graduates over a two-year period, commencing February 2025.

The MQA funds learners based on the following criteria:

  • The learner is unemployed and a South African citizen
  • The graduates should have achieved the relevant qualification at a HET level.
  • Must not have benefitted from an internship programme before whether MQA funded or company funded
  • No previous work experience required.

The Interns will:

  • Contribute towards the achievement of the Department’s duties while developing the necessary skills and knowledge in the related disciplines
  • Attend various relevant/ discipline specific training courses/ conferences
  • Be trained on basic computer courses such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc. (depending on the current competency levels)
  • Be afforded an opportunity to work independently to determine progress on own development.

Technical Compliance (Engineering)

  • Gain exposure and experience in key disciplines in Petroleum Engineering;
  • Be developed in key aspects of drilling operations from well designs, well construction, and to well abandonment operations;
  • Be developed in key aspects of production engineering from well performance assessment, design and types of well completion systems, to metering and measurement of production; and
  • Be afforded at opportunity to visit active operations mainly drilling operations and production facilities.

Minimum Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s Degree (4-year university degree) in Mechanical or Chemical or Petroleum Engineering

Licensing and Legal

  • Be developed in evaluating and processing applications for rights and permits lodged in terms of the Mineral Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002);
  • Gain exposure and experience in the preparation and publication of notices;
  • Gain exposure and experience in drafting recommendations for applications for rights and permits for the Minister’s consideration;
  • Be developed in the preparation of documents for notarial executions of rights/permits;
  • Gain exposure and experience in preparing comments and inputs to government policies or legislative framework relating to the petroleum industry; and
  • Conduct legal research.

MORE OPPORTUNITIES:

Minimum Qualification:

  • LLB

Company Secretary

  • Gain exposure and experience in corporate governance, company secretariat and compliance.
  • Assist in writing up and keeping proper minutes of meetings as permanent records of resolutions and required actions;
  • Gain experience in obtaining declarations of interest and gifts from all management and keep it in a proper format for audit purposes;
  • Gain experience in communicating corporate statutory information;
  • Assist with the preparation of the annual calendar for the Agency;
  • Be developed in conducting audits into the Agency’s governance committees; and
  • Be developed and assist with the preparation of compliance reports and documentation for regulatory bodies, including the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC).

Minimum Qualification:

  • LLB or BCom (CGISA qualification will be an added advantage)

How to apply

Please forward your Covering Letter, brief CV and all other requested documents to: internship25-26@petroleumagencysa.com stating the specific internship programme applying for as reference in the subject line: e.g., Internship 25-26: Company Secretary.

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of application, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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