Essential Skills for Oil & Gas Professionals

Code

258

Start Date

2025-08-03

End Date

2025-08-07

City

Toronto

Price

6450 $

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Participants

1-15

Hotel

Hotel Meeting Room

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Introduction

This seminar provides the skills to build knowledge of the oil and gas industry, as well as the necessary competencies to meet the challenges currently being faced.

The Oil & Gas industry is undergoing the most significant changes that we have seen for many years with new business models, companies and sources emerging. With the international demand for petroleum products reaching record levels hit record high levels so too is the complexity facing the Oil & Gas industry.

objectives

Build knowledge as to the nature and challenges facing the oil and gas industry
Understand the key players and commercial drivers
Examine the industry structure with specific emphasis on the ‘upstream’ component
Understand framing agreements including joint ventures and product sharing contracts
Examine the importance of effective project planning and execution

The Oil and Gas industry overview
- The nature of the Oil and Gas industry
- Who are the key players?
- Strategic challenges and opportunities facing the industry
- Structures and business models
- Case study review
Commercial drivers
- Upstream, midstream and downstream operations
- Exploration, evaluation and production
- Lifting and production costs
- Reserve estimates
- Case study review
Oil and Gas exploration and production arrangements
- Framing agreements
- Joint ventures
- Product sharing agreements
- Implications and challenges
- Joint operating agreement review
Capital project planning and execution
- Importance of project planning
- Front end loading
- Hot spots and challenges
- Creating and protecting value
- Implementing effective project control framework
Risk management application
- What is risk management and why it is important?
- Risk management as applied to capital projects.
- Specifying objectives and identifying project uncertainties
- Technical and non-technical risks
- Risk register review and analysis
- Stakeholder identification and mapping
Project economics
- Evaluating opportunities
- Discounting and non-discounting methods
- NPV, IRR
- Discount rates
- Case study application and review
Cost & estimation
- What is a cost estimate?
- What factors influence an estimate?
- Determining contingencies
- Probabilistic models
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Challenges and areas for improvement
Capital contracting issues
- Managing the oil and Gas spend
- Understanding the market
- Developing the appropriate contracting strategy
- Reward structures and options
- Contract award and the importance of contract management
- Case study application and review
Measuring and reporting performance
- External and internal reporting
- Identifying report user requirements
- KPIs
- Measuring and reporting project performance
- Earned value management analysis and reporting
Oil and Gas Capstone case study
- A case study dilemma
- Key learnings
- Summary and course wrap up

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