An intensive professional development training course on
Project Decision Making in the Oil and Gas Industry
Why Choose Project Decision Making in the Oil and Gas Industry Training Course?
Do the decisions made within your project organization provide clear direction for future projects? Large-scale projects in the oil and gas industry today face significant challenges, as they grow increasingly complex, innovative, and technologically demanding. It is crucial to ensure proper project selection, with clear benefits defined and understood from the outset, and thorough planning to support successful delivery.
Making sound, informed project decisions is a critical task for organizations, though it can be difficult to execute effectively. This Project Decision Making in the Oil and Gas Industry training course offers a step-by-step guide to decision-making processes. It introduces decision analysis, using various decision criteria and types of information, both high and low in quality. The course also explores decision alternatives, as well as the goals and objectives that drive effective decision-making.
This course will highlight:
- The need to undertake Front End Design & Survey in an Oil & Gas environment
- How to establish the key requirements necessary to support Oil& Gas project approval
- How Oil & Gas organisations ascertain the strategic fit and relevant options for project delivery
What are the Goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Identify with relevant stakeholders and communication needs in the Oil & Gas industry
- Understand key contextual requirements within the project environment
- Accurately estimate and allocate project costs and associated benefits
- Systematically define, design, and integrate end-user requirements in the project decisions
- Understand how the time-value of money techniques help to support decisions
- Identify risk sources and learn how to mitigate potential risks and deal with uncertainty
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Project Management Professionals
- Commercial Management Professionals
- Contracts Management Professionals
- Financial Management Professionals
- All other business services professionals who have the responsibility for planning, decision-making and controlling project schedules and costs in client and contracting companies
How will this Training Course be Presented?
Course participants will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered with the Tutor utilising a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. Project methodology includes an insight into organisational decision methods and short and long-term strategy considerations. The course includes an evaluation of project leadership skills required and will evaluate an applicable case study, with group discussion and critical analysis of this and other actual Oil & Gas projects.
The Course Content
- Projects and Programmes
- Project Life Cycles and Stage Gates
- Project Sanctioning and approval Process. (PSAP) for the Oil & Gas Industry
- Development of the Strategic Project Business Case
- Project Identification–Awareness of accountability of Project Ideas
- Exploration Survey & Drilling
- Appreciation of macro-environment in relation to project choice
- Understand who stakeholders are and how they may impact upon the project
- Regulatory framework, institutional factors and infrastructure
- Project Feasibility Decision makers
- Project Preparation & Planning responsibilities
- Build an executive leadership style that guides the project toward greater performance and profit
- Understand the Project Organisation in a typical Oil & Gas project
- Project Manager–Unique Requirements
- Project finance: Limited and non-recourse project finance
- Structuring project finance deals
- Financing/ credit risk considerations for the Oil & Gas project
- The time value of money – how it applies to project finance
- Yields and rate of return - Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis
- Understand why some projects fail
- Gain an understanding of successful projects and analyse reasons for success
- Define success criteria and KPI’s of an example Oil & Gas project
- Capture Project Requirements
- Development of the Project Charter
- Understand the need for a project team approach
- Importance of communication in an Oil & Gas project
- Project Systems and Processes for procurement, award of contracts, workforce management
- Identify and plan to engage with the project’s key stakeholders
- Centralised vs. Participatory Monitoring
- Optimal Project Review Types and Intervals
- Control Decision-making
- Project Evaluation criteria
- Decommissioning and rehabilitation considerations
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the course
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