Oil & Gas

October 2 2019

INFOGRAPHICS & DATA ANALYTICS FOR OIL & GAS REPORTING

Introduction and Descriptive Statistics
- What is Data Analysis?
- A reminder of elementary statistics and compensations for small sample sizes
- A Quick-start Tutorial for Excel
- Describing Data Sets using Statistics
- Representing Data Sets Graphically
- How to create Info-graphic in Excel?
- How Info-graphics Data Presentation compares to the traditional methods?
Frequency and Time Series Analysis
- Frequency of Occurrence
- Histograms
- Pareto Analysis
- Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
- How Excel Dashboard is different from Infographics?
- How to combine Excel and Power Point for creating Infographics?
- Time Series Analysis
- Trending Data
- Estimation Theory and its relevant to Oil and Gas Data
Scenario Analysis, Confidence and Six Sigma
- Modeling Scenario and their application in Oil and Gas Companies
- Interactive Spreadsheets
- Confidence Intervals
- Usefulness of Control Chart for Oil and Gas Companies
- An Introduction to Six Sigma
- Error Bars
- Online tools for creating Infographics
- Practical creation of Infographic based on model data
Regression Analysis Equations and System Modeling
- Simple Regression Analysis / Maximum likelihood Estimations
- Polynomial Curve Fits
- Describing Data using Equations
- Prediction
- The Applications of Regression to Oil and Gas Companies
- Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)
- Comparing different types of Infographics
The Infographics Creation and Critique
- Presenting Data using appropriate Reporting Style
- Practice creating the Infographics and its presentation
- Focus on the storytelling
- Overall review of concepts learned and How they can be applied in practice

Local Content Manager for Oil and Gas Industry

October 2 2019

LOCAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Introduction to Local Content in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Oil and Gas Industry: Setting the Scene
- What is Local Content?
- Understanding the context and current overview of major themes in local content laws and regulation
- Company Perspectives
  - The Role of International Oil Companies
  - The Role of National Oil Companies
Local Content in Procurements and Contracts
- Understanding the underlying concepts local content policy provisions applicable in the oil & gas business
- How to make quick wins in: procurement of goods and services from local suppliers, employment and development of local workforce, knowledge and technology transfer.
- Building and Developing Human Capacity
- Developing Oil and Gas Industry Capacity
- Building A Globally Competitive Supplier Base: Focusing on Community Participation In The Supply Chain
- Procurement and Contract Strategy
Developing a Local Content Plan
- How to approach A National Content Plan
- A Closer Look At two case studies
- Content Implementation
  - Implementation, Measurement and Monitoring of Local Content
  - Group Session: Local Content Strategy from A Company Perspective
  - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Local content agenda, targets, measures and mechanisms to meet local content requirements, monitor and implement targets performance of local content
Local Content Management Plan (LCMP)
- Opportunities driving forces, issues, obstacles in nationalizing host countries workforce, challenges and their effective solutions of localization of workforce and suppliers for the satisfaction of local content requirements
- Maximization of the commercial success of projects with local Content quick wins
- Quick wins in supplier development and training of national suppliers and workforce
- Challenges and opportunities
- Managing expectations
- Key factors in developing and implementing a local content strategy
- Developing local content management plan (LCMP)
- Incorporating local content in a contractual strategy
- Key-factor and associated risks.
- Setting up and management of a LCMP
Negotiation and Drafting of Local Content Provisions
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- Ways to measure local content
- The balanced score card and other tools in local content
- consequences of local content provisions on the execution of a procurement contract
- Contractual strategy including impact on oil and gas contracts
- Tendering process
- Recommendation and awarding
- Execution – control.
- Impact of local content provisions on workforce management
- Employment, Training, and Education

October 2 2019

MAINTENANCE CONTRACTING & OUTSOURCING

Module 1: Outsourcing Considerations
- Introduction
- Asset management – The business impact of maintenance
- Considerations in outsourcing maintenance – what to outsource and what not?
- Activity on asset matrix
- Risks involved
- Outsourcing maintenance activities – case study
Module 2: Maintenance Contracts
- Maintenance contract types
- Parties involved
- The tendering process – modern ways of tendering
- Choosing the right contractor
- Costing the service
- Defining Key Performance Indicators to monitor the performance of all parties involved
- Use of Balanced Scorecard with performance contracts
- Interactive exercise and examples
Module 3: Developing the Maintenance Contract
- Vendor management
- The contracting cycle
- Assemble a team
- Assess, determine and specify the required service levels
- Writing the contract – contents of a maintenance contract
- Interactive exercise: review some existing contracts
- Implementing contract management – how to make it work (performance management)
- Periodic evaluation & improvement
Module 4: Grounding and Negotiating the Contract
- Expectations about availability, reliability and costs
- The extensive preventive maintenance schedule – “tricks” of maintenance contractors
- The seven steps to develop a risk based maintenance concept
- Using the maintenance concept to negotiate more effectively lean maintenance contracts
- Negotiating the contract – negotiation ploys
- Negotiating the contract – negotiation tactics
- Negotiating tips
- Interactive exercise and role play regarding negotiating
Module 5: Final Workshop
- Development of a maintenance contract in groups
- Defining the requirements and service levels
- Develop the offer
- Selection criteria
- Presenting the bid
- Closing the contract
- Evaluation of results
- Wrap-up

October 2 2019

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR) ADVANCED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Module 1: Different EOR Processes and Screening Criteria
- Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
- Reservoir concepts, rock and fluid properties for EOR
- Screening criteria and mechanisms of different EOR methods
- Maximize oil recovery using Mobility Ratio and Capillary Number
- Limitations, challenges and problems of different EOR methods
Module 2: Reservoir Fluid Properties and Reservoir Characterization
- Reservoir concepts, main rock and fluid properties for EOR
- Advanced reservoir characterization techniques for EOR methods
- Water flooding: design requirement, limitations, and displacement theory
- Polymer flooding: polymer types, properties, and types of degradation
- Polymer flooding: mobility ratio (M), slug design, and field application
Module 3: Current Chemical and Miscible EOR Techniques
- Alkaline/polymer and ASP flooding: process and limitations
- Miscible gas EOR: CO2, HC, and Nitrogen injection methods;
- Lab and numerical determination of minimum miscibility pressure
- Carbon dioxide miscible and immiscible flooding processes
Module 4: Current and Advanced Thermal EOR Processes
- Thermal processes; cyclic and continuous steam injection
- Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD)
- In- situ combustion methods: forward and backward
- Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and CAPRI processes
- Steam-CO2 hybrid EOR technique and field application
Module 5: Other Advanced EOR Processes
- Microbial (MEOR) and Enzymes (EEOR) processes
- Low Salinity Water (LSW) and pulsed water processes
- Seismic, Electric, and Electromagnetic heating EOR methods
- Hybrid EOR applications; CO2-thermal and chemical-thermal methods

October 2 2019

OIL & GAS CONTRACTS: LICENSING, PRODUCTION RIGHTS, LEGISLATION & AGREEMENTS

Module 1: Introduction to Oil and Gas Contracts, Licensing and Production Rights
- Principal licensing and contractual arrangements
- Upstream and downstream contracting
- Financing in the international oil & gas industry
- Specific Risks in Upstream & Downstream contracts
- Contractual claims and resultant disputes
- The role of negotiation strategies in dispute avoidance under oil & gas contracts
Module 2: Emergence of New Contractual Arrangements
- The Modern Concession Contracts
- The Production Sharing Contracts
- Participation Agreements and joint operation agreements (JOA)
- Service Contracts, Pure Service Contracts, Risk Service Contracts
- Environmental impacts in the context of protection policies and requirements
- Regulatory framework, institutional factors and infrastructure
- Comparative Analysis of the different contract forms
Module 3: Stabilization Clauses and International Petroleum Agreements
- Stabilisation clauses defined
- Typology of Stabilisation Clauses
- Validity and Efficacy of the Stabilisation Clause
- Stabilisation Clauses and the National and International Law
- The Re-negotiability of International Petroleum Agreements: Stability v. Flexibility
- The Triggering Events for Renegotiation
- Case studies
Module 4: Risk Allocation - Hold Harmless Clauses and Exclusion Clauses in the Offshore Industry
- Indemnity and exclusion clauses: why the need
- Distinctions and definitions: indemnity vs. exclusion vs. limitation
- Mutual hold harmless – the ‘knock for knock’ regime
- Forms of exclusion clauses (and why it matters) Common carve-outs from
- Termination clauses and disputes
- Right to terminate under applicable law & its consequences
Module 5: Methods of Dispute Resolution under Cross Border/International Agreements
- Arbitration & Mediation – Important differences
- Mediation and conciliation, adjudication, dispute boards- save time and costs
- Enforcement of international arbitration awards under the New York Convention
- Contemporary Developments in case law and legislation

September 27 2019

EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING: CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS

Course Outline

Hazard action prevention
- - Overview of prevention methods
  - Vulnerability analysis
  - Risk assessment of hazardous materials
  - Developing the crisis management manual
  - Developing procedures
Crisis management – control models
- - Command and control systems
  - Crisis management – emergency planning
    International laws
    Local regulations
Writing the emergency response plan
- - Contents critical to the emergency response plan
    Emergency organization
    Emergency procedures
  - Assessment of available resources
  - Plan implementation
  - Training employees
  - Distribution of emergency plan
  - Updating the plan
Organizing incident control
- - Emergency Control Centers (ECC)
    Communication at the ECC
    Equipment needed
    Resources needed
  - Emergency Response Teams (ERT)
    Health and safety
  - Crisis Management Teams (CRT)
  - Forward Incident Control (FIC)
    Control points
Emergency action procedures
- - Response and media
  - Emergency action procedures
  - Evacuation procedures
  - Medical emergencies
  - Fire procedure
  - Explosion procedure
  - Hazardous materials
  - Environmental hazards
Emergency response model
- - Media relations and recovery
  - Flixborough case
  - Texas BP Refinery case
  - BIG Spring Refinery case
  - Regional based cases

September 27 2019

OIL AND GAS ESSENTIALS

Course Outline

Introduction to oil and gas and the industry
- - History of the industry
  - Scope of onshore operations
  - Scope of offshore operations
  - Global market outlook: energy requirements and statistics
  - Characteristics of oil and gas
  - Characteristics of rock
  - Origin of oil
  - Gas migration
  - Accumulation of oil and gas
  - Traps
Upstream production and equipment
- - Production processes
    Onshore
    Offshore
  - Equipment requirements and uses
    Onshore
    Offshore
Oil and gas drilling
- - Drilling rigs
    Bottom-supported units
    Floating units
    Land based units
  - Drilling a well
    Bits and drilling fluid
    Circulating system
    Rotating systems
    Power system
    Hoisting system
    Drilling personnel
    Selecting a rig
    Drilling from bottom-supported units
    Drilling from floating units
    Formation valuation
    Well abandonment
  - Completion
    Drilling platforms and land based units
    Mobile offshore drilling units
    Directional and horizontal drilling
    Well completion
Midstream, downstream and decommissioning
- - Processing requirements
  - Storage and its importance
  - Fuel transportation
  - Refinery
  - Unconventional explanations
  - Decommissioning

INFOGRAPHICS & DATA ANALYTICS FOR OIL & GAS REPORTING

LOCAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

MAINTENANCE CONTRACTING & OUTSOURCING

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR) ADVANCED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

OIL & GAS CONTRACTS: LICENSING, PRODUCTION RIGHTS, LEGISLATION & AGREEMENTS

EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING: CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS

Course Outline

OIL AND GAS ESSENTIALS

Course Outline

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