The International Petroleum & Mining Academy (IPMA) is a specialist technical academy in BIt trains technicians and operators for the oil, gas, petrochemical and mining sectors, pairing classroom instruction with laboratory, workshop and industrial placement work. Programmes are benchmarked against the training used by major operators — Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, TotalEnergies and national oil companies across Africa and the Middle East — and carry international certification through IHRDC (USA). Professional paths Corrosion and integrity: Corrosion Technician, Cathodic Protection Technician, Coating Inspector, Pipeline Integrity Technician, Asset Integrity Technician, Corrosion Monitoring Technician, Tank Inspection Technician, entry-level Corrosion Control Supervisor. Refinery and process: Refinery Operator, Process Technician, Mechanical Technician, Electrical Technician, Instrumentation Technician, Maintenance Technician, Production Technician, Petrochemical Reliability Technician. Offshore and upstream: Maintenance Roustabout, Production Operator, Drilling Operator, Rigging Operative, Pipeline Technician. Graduates also work toward recognised external credentials: AMPP Coating Inspector (CIP) and CP Technician, API 571, API 580, API 653 Awareness, NDT Level I, and HSE certifications.