Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors

The Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors Course will cover the following topics and more:

Generation, migration, accumulation and exploration of petroleum

• Identification of common rocks and minerals
• Ocean environment and plate tectonics
• Traps and trapping mechanisms
•  Geophysical & Geochemical surveys
• Offshore drilling and production
• Exploratory drilling& testing the well
• Casing and cementing the well
• Geologic classification types of reservoir and reservoir drive mechanisms
• Development of oil and gas fields
• Estimation of reserves
• Surface treatment and storage
• Enhanced oil recovery

Distribution transmission and transportation

• Geopolitics and world energy markets
• The geopolitics of oil pipelines
• OPEC and the future role of a cartel
• Overview of world petroleum consumption, supply, and prices
• Sustainable energy: myths and realities
• The global oil and gas industry
• Petroleum; composition, classification and properties
• Natural gas; composition, classification and properties

Petroleum economics

• World petroleum consumption, supply, and prices, prospects for the future
• Energy trading and commodities
• Futures, options, and hedging
• A brief history of real options
• Introduction to energy finance and economics
• Developing and Financing Oil and Gas projects
• Oil and gas accounting
• Discounted cash flow (DCF) and time-value considerations
• Apply the present value and future value formulae (NPV)
• Inflation, real, and nominal (time value of money)
• Internal rate of return (IRR)
• Hurdle rates and minimum acceptable rates of return

Financial and Energy Risk Management

• Introduction to energy risk management
• Risk management and types of risk
• Risks in trading energy commodities
• Geopolitical risks and opportunities
• Risk and opportunity analysis
• The nonlinearity and complexity of uncertainty
• Carbon capture and environmental issues
• The future of the global oil and gas industry

The evolution of a safety culture

• Culture and Safety
• Defining a Value System
• A New Management Safety System
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Understanding why employees put themselves at risk
• Assessing the organisational culture
• Active Listening
• Nonverbal Behaviours of Communication
• Speaking Hints
• Communication and Leadership
• The Communication Process
• Barriers to Communication
• Presentation Skills

Successful negotiation

• Steps in negotiation
• Negotiating fears
• Making choices
• Thinking creatively
• Coping with criticism
• Approaches to negotiation
• Negotiating roles
• Creative bargaining
• BATNA is an acronym that denotes the Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement Relational influence and power
• Negotiating with integrity
• Dealing with aggressors and Conflict
• Negotiating globally
• Course summary and roundup

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