Petroleum Business Management Courses

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the global oil and gas markets, focusing on the trade practices, market dynamics, risk management, and regulatory environment. It is designed for professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills in the international oil and gas trading sector.

This course introduces the participant to the many phases and technologies involved in the Oil and Gas Industry.  It begins with how and where you find it.  Continues with how you produce, process and transport and market the product.  The course includes the new technologies that are being used by the industry.

This course will show you what you should actually do hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month as a leader. Other training courses, which will teach you the theory of leadership, concentrating on style, vision, mission and values. This one will instead show you the practices you should adopt and the habits you should develop to succeed as a leader. You probably already know what good leaders do. You will have experienced good leadership in others; you will also have encountered poor leadership. This programme will give you the confidence to do what you know is right in leading your team.

Regardless of the size of work unit, whether you are experienced or not, this comprehensive course will build strong foundations of skills and knowledge you need to lead others to achieve phenomenal results! You will uncover the powerful ways to motivate, inspire and get total involvement and commitment from your team. This highly renowned course integrates the very best learning from successful industry leaders to deliver strategies to create high performance teams. You will take away many practical steps to the issues that you face every day at work and be equipped to deal with tough decisions to lead successfully in today’s fast paced environment.

The Art and Science of Professional Leadership will take you on a journey to discover your own strengths as a leader and demonstrate how you can build on those strengths to lead yourself and your own team to higher productivity. This programme is practical and inspiring study of many of the best practices, skills and techniques in modern business today. It will help you to overcome the enormous pressures that exist in this increasing fast-changing business, economic and industrial climate. Participants will develop the following leadership competencies: Determine best practices of effective leaders from sport, business through history and how to apply them today in your work environment Explore your leadership capabilities and areas for personal development Build a culture of vision, trust, credibility and open communication that encourages people to follow you and work harder Identify strategies for overcoming obstacles in the work environment that lead to higher performance and achieving results Further develop your skills in leading, managing, coaching and motivating staff at all levels

A business strategy creates a vision and direction for the whole organisation. It is important that all people within a company have clear goals and are following the direction or mission of the organisation. A strategy can provide this vision and prevent individuals from losing sight of their company’s aims. This Business Strategy Essentials course will provide high calibre staff, team leaders and professionals with the knowledge and skills to contribute to strategy formulation and implementation. Delegates will acquire strategic awareness and learn how this impacts operational activities.

This is an interactive and immersive course that takes participants on a journey of discovery within Strategic HR. Designed specifically for Leaders with non-technical skills within the HR discipline, we will explore the role of Leaders and HR. Appreciation of the HR function will lead to greater understanding and performance. This course is very practical, and participants will take away action plans for implementation the very next day back at work.

Highly successful organisations are renowned for developing internal climates where innovation and creative solutions thrive. This highly creative, yet practical explores what is involved in establishing such a business environment and will demonstrate to delegates how to develop innovative and creative solutions to real world business problems when they return to their workplace. The core learning experience centers around a series of practical case study exercises, which will be drawn on to illustrate the key principles involved in critical thinking and innovative problem solving. It will also enable the delegates to test their knowledge and expertise.

This training course considers the importance of planning strategically for any negotiation and developing relationships through the application of influence and persuasion. Delegates will work on critical thinking processes to enable them to make better planning decisions in order to achieve success when negotiating. This training course will equip delegates with an essential framework for effective negotiation starting with the planning process and understanding why it is essential to consider the critical points in building and maintaining relationships. Delegates will have the opportunity to exercise and improve their influencing and persuasion skills and build higher-level communication ability in order to deliver results and maintain alliances for the mutual benefit of the parties involved.

This highly interactive course is designed with Engineers in a leadership role or seeking to move into the role in mind. Understanding your role, people and their motivations will be key in your leadership position. This course is packed with all the challenges you face in leading, managing and driving your team to superior performance. You will explore and understand the key skills for leading people in all disciplines.

This course aims to provide you with the latest leadership competencies so that you can significantly enhance your leadership skills. The programme will focus on inspiring and empowering the individual to handle a wide range of leadership situations. The use of teaching and learning techniques based on the latest educational psychology principles for adult learning ensures that each programme session will be challenging and highly effective. Join this programme and you will: • Gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented • Return to work confident in your abilities to handle leadership challenges • Enhance your abilities to manage the performance of your people • Learn to apply innovative leadership to release creativity in the workplace

Innovation is key to your success. Productivity is key to your company’s long term future. This intensive professional excellence training course focuses on the critical skills that will enable delegates to build productive relationships and successfully interact with others in the organisation. The strategies you will learn, aligned with your commitment to personal improvement, will enable you to become the rare high performer that organizations seek to employ, retain, and promote. Aimed at the driven professional, this training course builds an agenda to improve your personal creativity and productivity, enhance your professional reputation and enable you to apply innovative work practices. In this training course, you will realise your strengths and fulfil your true managerial leadership potential.

The Effective Performance Management Course is one of the most popular courses because it incorporates all the leadership skills required of all leaders and aspiring leaders. We will explore the many faceted areas of performance at work, introducing best practice, the latest thinking in the HR sphere and timeless practical tips to ensure success. Participants will come away with a clear plan to increase performance of everyone the very next day at work.

In today’s fast-paced environment, competitiveness and quality are ‘must-haves’ for all organisations. This workshop provides the needed models and structures to develop an organisation effectively through the challenges they face.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is an alternative method of settling legal disputes between parties outside of court. There are various methods of ADR, however we will cover the three main types: Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation. This course will explore all the aspects of these topics in depth, so that participants can be more confident in their work and deliver higher performance as a result.

In today’s world middle and senior level managers are faced with increasingly complex responsibilities. In order to meet this challenge they must be continually sharpening their management skills. This programme will focus on the management and leadership skills necessary for success in today’s fast changing business environment. In this programme you will learn how to: Manage and motivate people more effectively Create and harness the power of high performance teams Understand and effectively utilise strategic planning techniques Negotiate for positive results Utilize the Baldrige performance criteria as a standard of excellence and benchmark for your organisation

This interactive and thought-provoking course gives delegates deep immersion into the world of Conflict at work. Difficult colleagues and team members can drain the energy and performance of any team, causing distrust, conflict and a bad atmosphere for everyone. Delegates will be given tools and techniques to enable them to face up to the challenges of conflict and turn everyone into productive team players, contributing to results.

This course introduces participants to the various and currently practiced petroleum fiscal systems and their valuation techniques. Delegates are also given practical guidance on the valuation of the different contracts and economic analysis of oil and gas development projects (within these fiscal environments) with special emphasis on Royalty-Tax systems and Production Sharing Contract PSC’s. The course also introduces participants to the concept and techniques of uncertainty and risk analysis as they apply to oil and gas development investment decisions.

The ISO 55001 standard specifies the requirements for the establishment, implementation, maintenance and improvement of a management system for asset management, referred to as an “asset management system”. This International standard can be used by any organization. This course aims to introduce the new standard ISO 55001on Asset Management & train them as the internal auditor. It is for Internal Auditor who wants to learn the skill required to perform internal audit for using the framework of the new Asset Management standard ISO 55001.

In every organisation, the basis of business activity is the creation, drafting, negotiation and management of contracts. Those involved in the contracting process are, rightly, required to act as contracts professionals, and can no longer afford to treat contracts as an adjunct to their main roles. The increasing complexity of contracts, particularly when used in an international context, has brought the need for such skills into sharp focus. With these matters in mind this training course is designed to: • Examine the core skills, knowledge, behaviours of a professional in the Oil and Gas industry • Know and use those core skills such as: delegation, teambuilding, coaching, negotiation, persuasion and influence • Understand the factors that truly motivate people • Explore and know how to Manage Performance effectively • Immerse participants on a journey of discovery in effective negotiation • Examine Emotional Intelligence and the benefits to the organisation

This course is aimed at both managers, engineers and commercial specialist. It provides the participants with tools and practical techniques to identify, analyse and manage uncertainties and risk in exploration and production projects. Delegates will have the opportunity to explore these challenges, with hands-on application of industry-standard tools and techniques to assess realistic scenarios and associated data. The essential commercial drivers are held in perspective at all times. Learning is reinforced by working on case material to explore uncertainties and risks in the context of production forecasting, cash-flow management, incremental projects and asset portfolio manipulation.

This course is design to introduce the concept of energy policies across the globe, through comparison of the policies affecting oil, gas, renewable, nuclear etc, with emphasis on natural gas as an alternative energy source for the future, and the basis for developing such policies by government or regulators taking cognisance of economic factors and infrastructure. The structure of such policy to public and private sector within the gas value, chain as well as the industrial and domestic energy consumers. The course identifies the global energy outlook and how it favours the use of natural gas, as well as the potential technologies that drive gas choice in comparison with other energy sources such as oil, coal, nuclear, biofuels. Electricity generation is then discussed as the key factor in gas industry, with examples of the dependency of electricity on the gas market, and how this shaped the gas policy to encourage participation of private companies in both generation, transmission and distribution. The course will then look at the practical examples of the gas policies development and how it changes over time in different countries such as UK, US, Middle East, Africa and Europe. This unique combination of theories and examples of the existing policies could help policy makers, resource personnel, management team and private sector in the industry to understand their role and strategize their investment and interest in the gas policy at international and local level.

This 5-day course provides participants with an overview of the key business aspects of the upstream petroleum business. It explores the key contracting and portfolio management challenges in the 21st century petroleum industry and discusses the important functional management issues facing managers today, including technical, financial, marketing and petroleum accounting. The course is highly interactive with practical business simulation examples based on portfolio analysis and making difficult business and investment decisions to maximising overall organisational performance by taking into consideration international, national, and local trends and policies, portfolio performance, enterprise resources, as well as environmental and business risks.

The area of Contract, Negotiation and Contract Management is crucial to the successful operation of all business and can be a time intensive set of functions. Cost effective staff operations in this area, if properly implemented, can be one of the most lucrative areas for building business relationships and generating revenue. A contract lifecycle management platform simplifies contract operation and management processes, providing the ability to manage and avoid risk and compliance issues through templates and approval workflows, streamline negotiations with online redlining, deliver more revenue and faster with e-signatures, and more easily manage documents after they are signed helping organizations grab opportunities that may otherwise have been missed. The business-standard contract management model, typically exercises purview over the following business disciplines: • Essential legal knowledge • Offshore tax and jurisdictional knowledge • Authorisation and negotiation • Effective risk management • Communication management • Contract visibility and commercial awareness • Document management • Contract compliance/ corporate governance

This three-day intensive and interactive course uses the principles of financial analysis and the power of Excel to identify the important variables that can dramatically enhance the value of an organisation in the oil and gas industry. Using Excel and oil and gas based cases and exercises, delegates will learn how to master many of the tools and functions it provides to apply the latest financial analysis techniques, understand what the numbers are revealing and be better able to make strategic and tactical decisions. The seminar proceeds from fundamental financial analysis to more advanced techniques for determining the cost of capital, methods of projecting the benefit of capital projects. In addition, delegates will learn how to evaluate organisations with which delegates are planning to do business; determine if they are able to provide strategic strength to your company. Databases of companies and situations in the oil and gas industry have been specially prepared for this course and delegates will have the opportunity to analyse companies from around the globe: both IFRS based companies and US GAAP companies, for example. Participants will be given Excel templates for use during this session, which will be theirs to keep. The power of Excel enriches the learning experience and enhances the seminar experience found when using only manual learning methods.