Training
We offer a wide variety of corporate training programs which include Executive Management courses and Oil & Gas (O&G) Technical courses, which can include items from Reservoir Engineering to Crude Oil Marketing, Geology to Field Development Planning, and much more.
We also have 12 week long Oil & Gas Competency Programs meant to take an employee through a combination of theory and practice within a specific subject in an intensive 12 week long program. For additional details on any of these, please select desired Categories on this page.
| Course Title | Venue | Start Date | End Date | Price |
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| GLOBAL PSC BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES | Kigali, Rwanda | Jan 16, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 | $12,500 |
| ........An Unconstrained Business Case & Innovative Incremental Low Cost Oil Development Under Changing Laws, Energy Challenges & Pandemic Induced Uncertainty | Kigali, Rwanda | Jan 30, 2023 | Feb 10, 2023 | $12,500 |
With this training, attendees will learn how to Scrutinize a Production Sharing Agreement. The PSA, the provisions of which are the focus of this training, occupy a special place in the history of oil contracts. They were developed in the 1960s and became widespread by the 1990s. While their popularity has waxed and waned over this period, they are still used in the oil and gas industry, especially among IOCs operating in low- and middle-income developing countries.
Asset and Production Managers are often tasked with maximising hydrocarbon production from existing assets with minimal and cost-effective modifications to existing facilities. As the operational costs of producing oil and gas increases due to staff shortages and increased production from marginal, unconventional and technologically challenging fields, there is greater need for cost-effective asset optimization.
Typically in PSA’s with Production Bonuses, why do Operators opt to pay Income tax instead of paying the Production Bonus set by the Government? Even though PSA is considered to be the most efficient Oil and Gas Contract by some scholars.
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| Petroleum Production Optimization in Oil & Gas | Kigali, Rwanda | Feb 06, 2023 | Feb 10, 2023 | $6,250 |
Building physics based and data driven reduced order models (data driven proxy models) for dynamic simulation and value quantification of reservoir processes
Validation of simulation models using past records for constraining reservoir description, reservoir characterization and improving prediction accuracy
Assessment of uncertainty in the estimation of reservoir connectivity through integration of measurement and model uncertainty to generate multiple plausible geologic scenarios
Using simulation based optimization tools to optimally operate petroleum production systems and support real time decision making (what if scenario analysis)
Performing lifecycle production assessment and management of petroleum reservoirs
Field wide multi objective optimization strategies to determine optimal operating set points and meet business goals
Assessing impact of optimization strategies on system performance plan operational response
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| EFFECTIVE TENDER EVALUATION, CONTRACT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR A BROWNFIELD EPC PROJECT | Houston, USA | Feb 27, 2023 | Mar 10, 2023 | $12,500 |
This Effective Tendering Procedures & Bid Evaluation training course will analyze all the variables impacting a tendering procedures and bid evaluation process with emphasis on Brownfields. The key elements include understanding business need, market analysis, supply chain cost modelling, contracting strategy, and contract award up to and including contract initiation. It introduces a methodology in classifying the 3rd party goods or services for an organization into categories based on supply risk to spend value. Then a methodology will be introduced to help assign the best-fit market approach to a particular category or its sub-category. All of these will lead to the best-fit tendering procedures and bid evaluation.
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| PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR EPC BROWNFIELD PROJECT | London, UK | Mar 13, 2023 | Mar 24, 2023 | $12,500 |
Engineering, Procurement & Construction of Brownfield Projects are becoming increasingly important due to
(1) an increasing number of assets is in a mature state and reaching its end of designated design lifetime,
(2) with a significant amount of production coming from maturing assets and less production from new assets across the globe, maintaining and enhancing production of existing assets becomes more important.
However, EPC brownfield projects are characterized by specific challenges that are different from the challenges typical to EPC greenfield EPC projects. This competency training on project management for EPC brownfields will grow skills in the tools and techniques used in characterizing EPC brownfield project, bidding an EPC brownfield project, organizing EPC brownfield project, managing EPC brownfield project scope, schedule, budget and risk, cost estimating, cost control, planning and scheduling, project procurement, project accounting, interface & risk management. The inter-relationships between these topics will be highlighted and explained. An extensive hands-on workshop pertaining to decision process analysis in EPC brownfield project management will be part of the course.
Full brown field assessment and project management are critical for improving oil recovery. This competency training course presents new technologies for identification of more potentials from brown fields. Executing plant life extension services in brownfield environments can improve the performance of operating assets. With this course, We will bring our established and enhanced asset life study methods to assess the current condition of the plant and ensure the successful procurement, and execution of all required modifications and optimize the schedule and cost of implementation
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| HUMAN RESOURCE DATA MANAGEMENT, MANIPULATION & ANALYSIS USING POWER BI | Houston, TX | Mar 20, 2023 | Mar 27, 2023 | $6,250 |
While working with disparate data, you need to organize, clean, and transform it to use it in your decision-making process. This is where data manipulation fits in. Data manipulation allows you to manage and integrate data helping drive actionable insights.
Data manipulation, also known as data preparation, enables users to turn static data into fuel for business intelligence and analytics. Many data scientists use data preparation software to organize data and generate reports, so non-analysts and other stakeholders can derive valuable information and make informed decisions.
Learn how to master Power BI—one of the world’s most popular business intelligence tools—in this course.
You’ll learn how to import, clean, manipulate, and visualize data in Power BI—all critical skills for any aspiring data professional. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn data analysis best practices and discover a world of Power BI functionalities, including data modeling, DAX, Power Query, and many others.
Data manipulation offers several advantages to businesses, including:
Consistency: Data manipulation maintains consistency across data accumulated from different sources, giving businesses a unified view that helps them make better, more informed decisions.
Usability: Data manipulation allows users to cleanse and organize data and use it more efficiently.
Forecasting: Data manipulation enables businesses to understand historical data and helps them prepare future forecasts, especially in financial data analysis.
Cleansing: Data manipulation helps clear unwanted data and keep information that matters. Enterprises can clean up records, isolate, and even reduce unnecessary variables, and focus on the data they need.
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| SUPPLY CHAIN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING BOOTCAMP | Lagos, NGR | Apr 03, 2023 | Apr 07, 2023 | $2,500 |
With Supplier relationships being a very critical part of the procurement and supply chain functions, it is now vital that the procurement and supply chain functions collaborates its efforts and expertise to cope with the complexity of the present operating environment. Procurement and supply chain management are being relied upon to make a difference to the depressed market and are under constant pressure to make dynamic and meaningful contributions to the bottom line operating costs and capital expenditure.
With this training course you will have the opportunity to understand life in complex organizations by covering topics that span micro analysis dealing with the emotions and behaviors of individuals and macro analysis dealing with the organization, and apply these to the supply chain and procurement practices.
The training course helps you master the supply function of supply chain management. Critical insight is gained by using real-world case studies that will teach you how to manage the flow of products from sourcing and acquisition through delivery to the customer. By using an analytical hierarchy process, you’ll discover ways to effectively evaluate and select suppliers. You’ll also discover how and when to build trust between participants across the supply chain.
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| Behavioral Competencies & Effective Management of a Successful Dynamic Team | Lagos, NGR | Apr 10, 2023 | Apr 14, 2023 | $2,500 | |
| Houston, TX | Apr 10, 2023 | Apr 14, 2023 | $5,500 |
This course will help participants understand life in complex organizations by covering topics that span microanalysis dealing with the emotions and behaviors of individuals and macro analysis dealing with the organization.
Understanding & Managing Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding EI
• Understanding and effectively managing EI
• Demonstrating using EI assessment reports to better manage and lead
• EI exercises – throughout EI program
Power Relationships
• Understanding concepts of power
• The primary sources of organizational and individual power
• Understanding & managing the power subordinates have over leaders
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| Implementation & Understanding of Nigerian Petroleum Fiscal Systems with ..... | Houston, TX | Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 | $6,250 |
The adoption of any petroleum arrangement – concessionary or contractual – is a financial issue that is centered on how costs are recovered, and profits divided, which is at the heart of taxation and economic rent theories. Hence Nigeria is expected to make the tax system attractive for the IOCs to encourage inward investment. The effectiveness of any petroleum arrangement depends largely on the attractiveness of its underlying tax regime which, in turn, depends on the effectiveness of its design and implementation. Hence the need for this course
This course will analyze in depth the key legal fiscal and commercial aspects of Production Sharing Contracts around the world with particular emphasis on the new PIA. These often-complex agreements have a number of fiscal formulas and accompanying legal clauses which means understanding the way they work is crucial to ensure a smooth contract implementation. By utilizing a powerful economic model, participants will be able to carry out in-depth computer analysis of 35 countries and jurisdictions around the world and enhance their understanding of the Production Sharing Contract.
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| International Energy Business with Emphasis on Profitability Under PIA, Fluctuating Cost & Global Kinematics | Kigali, Rwanda | Mar 27, 2023 | Apr 07,2023 | $12,500 |
An economic rebound after the pandemic has triggered price spikes for multiple commodities. Conflicts around the world has led to even further increasing energy prices and security-of-supply concerns. However, the transition to a lower-carbon energy system continues and accelerates, and the coming decades will likely see a rapidly-changing energy landscape. This course provides insights into the longer-term trends that will continue to be essential in shaping future energy systems.
PIA represents an effort by Africa’s leading oil-producing country, Nigeria to respond to this changing environment. In 2019, the oil and gas sector accounted for about 5.8 percent of Nigeria’s real GDP and was responsible for 95 percent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings and 80 percent of its budget revenues. In addition, because the law is far-reaching in its remit, it is complex and not easy to summarize. This course will focus on Profitability under the new law.
The PIA introduces a new tax regime, replacing the existing petroleum profits tax with a hydrocarbon tax and introducing a tax on the income of oil companies. Under this new fiscal regime, hydrocarbons—including crude oil, condensates, and natural gas liquids produced from associated gas—will be subject to taxation. Notably, crude oil from deep offshore is excluded from the tax.
One of the more controversial stipulations in the PIA is the provision stating that, in the event of supply shortfalls, only companies with active refining licenses or proven track record of international crude oil and petroleum products trading will be allowed to import such products. This is a controversial provision that has been interpreted as an attempt to confer monopoly powers on a few domestic refiners. Lets Discuss.
| Course Title | Venue | Start Date | End Date | Price |
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| Kigali, Rwanda | Jul 10, 2023 | Jul 21, 2023 | $12,500 | |
| POST-PIA COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS GROWTH CONSOLIDATION UNDER CURRENT DYNAMIC GLOBAL MARKET | Houston, USA | Jul 24, 2023 | Aug 04, 2023 | $12,500 |
| London, UK | Aug 21, 2023 | Sep 01, 2023 | £12,500 |
Implementation of the PIA saw a host of departmental and business unit mergers (consolidations) into a single larger Organization.
Business consolidation is a legal strategy that is often initiated to improve operational efficiency by reducing redundant personnel and processes. This course will analyze in depth the key legal, operational, fiscal and commercial aspects of these Mergers with particular emphasis on the new PIA.
These often-complex agreements have a number of fiscal formulas and accompanying legal clauses which means understanding the way they work is crucial to ensure a smooth contract implementation. By utilizing a powerful economic model, participants will be able to carry out in-depth computer analysis of 35 countries and jurisdictions around the world and enhance their understanding of the Production Sharing Contract.
Prior to the establishment of the PIA, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) was responsible for the regulation of the Upstream and Downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
With the introduction of the PIA, the DPR, the Petroleum Inspectorate and Petroleum Pricing and Product Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) have now been replaced by two regulatory agencies namely:
- The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (the “Commission”)
- The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (“the Authority”)
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| Result-Based Management - Workshop | Houston, TX | Apr 28, 2023 | Apr 30, 2023 | $3,875 |
Results-Based Management (RBM) is a critical factor in ensuring the success of a program/project. It ensures that all aspects of designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a program/project is done transparently, and in a manner that ensures accountability. This RBM Workshop strives to impart development practitioners with the essential skills that will help them in making better decisions throughout the program/project life.
The critical role of monitoring in demonstrating the performance of programs and projects and in steering the implementation process towards the intended results as well as Developing realistic program objectives and measures to assess project outcomes and impact.
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| 4D SEISMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR ENAHNCED OIL RECOVERY IN MATURE FIELD | Houston, TX | Jun 19, 2023 | Jun 23, 2023 | $6,250 |
Time-lapse seismic survey, also known as 4D seismic has great potential in monitoring and interpreting time-varying variations in reservoir fluid properties during hydrocarbon production. Production process can change reservoir parameters (such as fluid saturation, temperature and pressure), leading to changes in elastic properties (bulk modulus and density) corresponding changes in P- and S-wave velocities.
The time-lapse surveys interpret dynamic changes in reservoir parameters by detecting differences in seismic responses from different vintages, which are obtained by repeated seismic surveys over the same area. Extracting the full value from time-lapse seismic surveys (4D seismic) requires high levels of competence in advanced 3D imaging, time-lapse seismic processing (data conditioning to enhance repeatability of time-lapse datasets and reduce artificial differences that come from unavoidable differences in repeated-seismic survey environments), velocity modeling, and pre-SDM along with the application of methods unique to the 4D seismic processing and interpretation workflow.
This course provides 4D seismic studies of reservoirs that can be used to monitor reservoir fluid substitution and maximize production of reservoirs. Participants will gain in-depth understanding of how the seismic properties relate to reservoir properties as production takes place in the reservoir.
The course is designed to put the participants into a position where the seismic response can be related to important reservoir properties.
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| FUNDAMENTALS OF GAS EXPLORATION AND ITS IMPACT ON GLOBAL ECONOMY | Houston, TX | Jun 12, 2023 | Jun 16, 2023 | $6,125 |
Attendees would gain a clear understanding of the scientific principles and techniques used in gas exploration, such as seismic surveys, drilling, and reservoir engineering. Knowledge of natural gas properties, such as composition, energy content, and transport properties. Environmental impact of natural gas exploration such as greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and land-use impacts.
Understanding the economics of natural gas in the areas of supply and demand, pricing, and investment decisions. Analyzing the impact of natural gas on the global economy including its contribution to GDP, employment, and energy security.
Attendees would be able to identify emerging trends and technologies in the natural gas industry, as well as the potential for renewable energy sources to replace natural gas in the future.
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| Assessing and Managing (Onshore & Offshore) Brown Fields | Houston, TX | Jun 26, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $6,250 |
Full brown field assessment and management are critical for improving oil recovery. This competency training course presents new technologies for identification of more potentials from brown fields. This course starts with a detailed seismic mapping, followed by a well review – particularly with respect to logs and completions analysis, generation of new attributes for detecting reservoir compartmentalization and continuity, then a high resolution inversion, followed by geo-modeling that is highly consistent with the seismic using a new algorithm that enables looping back to the seismic and well data for forward modeling, simulation, history matching, and production optimization.
The topics also include probabilistic history matching problem formulation and techniques, risk and decision analysis techniques, as well as common techniques for regularization and parameterization of reservoir models for automated history matching and reservoir characterization. Applications and case studies on risk and uncertainty management methods in field development planning will be presented and discussed.