Discipline: Management
Level: Intermediate

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Geologists, engineers, geophysicists, managers, and planning analysts

ABOUT THE COURSE

Good technical and business decisions are based on a competent analysis of project costs, benefits and risks. Attendees learn a practical, systematic process for analyzing decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Participants learn to design and solve decision models. In the models, probability distributions express professional judgments about risks and uncertainties and are carried through the calculations. Decision tree and influence diagrams provide clear communications and the basis for valuing each alternative. The complementary Monte Carlo simulation technique is presented and experienced in a detailed hand-calculation exercise.

Project modeling fundamentals and basic probability concepts provide the foundation for the calculations. The mathematics is straightforward and mostly involves common algebra.

COURSE CONTENT

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Decision Tree Analysis: decision models, valuing additional information, flexibility and control, project threats and opportunities
• Monte Carlo Simulation: Latin hypercube sampling, portfolio problems, optimization, advantages and limitations
• Decision Criteria and Policy: value measures, multiple objectives, HSE, capital constraint, risk aversion
• Modeling the Investment: influence diagrams, sensitivity analysis, modeling correlations
• Basic Probability and Statistics: four fundamental rules, Bayes’ theorem, distribution types, misconceptions about probability, biases in estimation
• Expected Value Concept: foundation for decision policy, features and pitfalls to avoid
• Implementing Decision Analysis: guidelines for good analysis, team analyses, computer tools (discussion and demonstrations), mitigating risks
• Evaluating a multi-pay prospect (team exercise)

Discipline: Human Capital Performance
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Managers, directors, project leaders of global teams, senior managers and regional team members

ABOUT THE COURSE

Cross Cultural Leadership examines what constitutes “effective” leadership across cultures and explores aspects of cultural differentiation. Working within those topics, delegates are asked to describe aspects of leadership in particular cultures based on their research and/or personal experiences. The goal of the course is to help prepare delegates for business assignments outside of their native countries.

COURSE CONTENT

• Overview
• Cultural Style
• Social Dimensions
• Orientation to Time & Space
• Leadership Effectiveness
• Cross Cultural Dialogue

Discipline: Finance, Accounting & Economics
Level: Intermediate

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Middle, Senior and Top Management and other business decision makers as well as strategists or consultants involved in strategic and business planning.

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course explains how to read and interpret the financial statements of a business enterprise. This is not an accounting course, but accounting is the language of business and it is important for the understanding of the financial well being of a business.  The course reviews the basic financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of retained earnings, as well as several financial measurements. Basic accounting concepts are introduced to aid the professional practitioner in dealing with non-engineering professions such as commercial bankers, investment bankers and accountants.

The course participant will learn the differences between: cash flows versus profits, return of investment versus return on investment, accrual versus cash accounting, and book versus market.

It also explores the key accounting issues affecting the Oil & Gas industry and how this affects the financial reporting and financial policies.  Emphasis will be on the impact of the IFRS on O&G Financial Reports.

COURSE CONTENT

• Understand how financial transactions are grouped and categorized
• Know how financial statements are related
• Recognize the sources and uses of cash in a business
• Know how to calculate various financial ratios
• Understand how to evaluate the financial health of a company
• Basic Financial Statements and Reporting
• Differing view of the finance professional and the accounting professional
• Some insights into governmental control involving tax issues
• Language of the finance arena and why some common phrases like cash and profits are not identical
• IFRS application to the O&G industry
• Implementing IFRS

Discipline: Management
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Those wishing to implement a formal Information Security Management System (ISMS) in accordance with ISO 27001:2005, those wishing to learn about effective audit practices, existing security auditors who wish to expand their auditing skills, consultants who wish to provide advice on ISO 27001:2005 systems certification and Security and Quality professionals

ABOUT THE COURSE

Auditing is crucial to the success of any management system. As a result, it carries with it heavy responsibilities, tough challenges and complex problems. This course prepares delegates for the qualification process for ISO 27001:2005 and trains them on how to conduct audits for Certification Bodies. It also empowers them to give practical help and information to those who are working towards compliance and certification.

COURSE CONTENT

• Information security
• The importance of information security
• ISO 27001:2005
• Reviewing security threats and vulnerabilities
• Management of security risks
• Selecting security controls
• How to build an Information Security Management System (ISMS)
• ISO 27001:2005 auditing techniques
• Managing and leading an ISO 27001:2005 audit team
• Interview techniques
• Audit reporting

Discipline: Technical & Operations Management
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

This course is recommended for engineers in all disciplines who interface with equipment maintenance functions.

ABOUT THE COURSE

Worldwide competition for consumer goods has placed enormous burdens on American manufacturing companies to improve their productivity or lose market share. Companies have responded in recent years with improvements in the way they manage suppliers, inventories, planning, manufacturing, and even the methods used for design and development of products. Although these changes have proved to be positive influences on company profitability, they fall short of addressing all the areas where improvement is needed. One area often overlooked for improvement potential is machine maintenance (i.e. maintenance performed on the equipment required for manufacturing products). This course introduces the student to some of the methods and tools available for improving machine maintenance. It also reviews the types of improvements that can be achieved if the same improvement principles are applied to machine maintenance that have been applied to other factory processes.

COURSE CONTENT

• Historical background for manufacturing process improvement and how machine maintenance is related to it
• A review of the standard Corrective Maintenance method and its limitations
• A review of the Preventive Maintenance method and the improvements it can bring to a company’s performance
• A review of the Predictive Maintenance method and how it can be used to augment a Preventive Maintenance program for further performance improvements
• A review of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems and their application to machine maintenance
• Examples of how the three major maintenance philosophies are typically applied
• Two simple methods of assigning priorities to maintenance tasks

Discipline: Human Capital Performance
Level: Intermediate

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Managers, directors, project leaders of global teams, senior managers and regional team members

ABOUT THE COURSE

The team may be virtual, but the challenges are real.  Communication takes on a whole new meaning when you’re not face-to-face. You need to understand the channels of communication open to you as a virtual team leader and then choose the right channel for the tasks at hand.

This course aims to benefit delegates by teaching them how to utilize unique virtual team members’ characteristics to promote productivity, create a truly cohesive team, build trust and enhance risk-taking and creativity and apply effective communication channels to achieve desired team relationships and goals.

COURSE CONTENT

• What virtual team members want from their team leader
• How to effectively unify the virtual team’s culture and relationship
• Methods to build trust and overcome team-busting behaviors in virtual teams
• Key elements of successful virtual communication channels and cross-cultural interactions
• How to set, define, organize, communicate and reinforce performance goals
• Approaches to motivate and recognize virtual team performance
• How to identify roles and concerns of this reality
• The Virtual Team Process Model
• To recognize paradigms and their impact on remote teams
• Effectively managing remote communication behaviours
• How to facilitate team longevity, productivity and goals

Discipline: Project Management
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Exploration, production and management personnel interested in applying project management techniques to their operations

ABOUT THE COURSE

Running a successful petroleum operation requires a blend of technology, business savvy, and people skills. If you already have a firm grasp of exploration or production technology, learn to amplify its profitability with applied project accounting and economic techniques. This course is aimed at helping technical personnel make the best business decisions – decisions that lead to lowest project cost while still meeting all production or exploration goals.

This course covers the principles and application of project accounting & economic techniques to the projects managed for upstream oil and gas business. Participants can use these principles their first day back on the job.

COURSE CONTENT

• Financial Principles of Project Management
• Project Accounting Basic Concepts
  • Project Economics Basic Concepts
• Application of Accounting and Economic Basic Concepts
• Preparation and Analysis of Project Accounting Reports
• Case Studies and exercises

Discipline: Finance, Accounting & Economics
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

This course is designed for new managers to the oil and gas industry, others desiring to understand or refresh their knowledge of management accounting concepts and technical people looking for the basic concepts of accounting and finance.

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course examines management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision making and control in profit-directed organizations. It also defines product costing, budgetary control systems, and performance evaluation systems for planning, coordinating, and monitoring the performance of a business. This course defines principles of measurement and develops framework for assessing behavioral dimensions of control systems; impact of different managerial styles on motivation and performance in an organization.

COURSE CONTENT

• Nature of Costs
• Economics of Organisation
• Performance Measurement
• Balanced Scorecard
• Budgets & Budgeting
• Cost Allocation
• Absorption Cost Systems
• Standard Costs

Discipline: Management
Level: Intermediate

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Geoscientists, Engineers, Managers, and Executives responsible for defining, assessing and developing business alternatives

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course is a hands-on, case-based course focused on managers responsible for building and sustaining a successful strategic plan. Participants are exposed to a variety of perspectives on, approaches to, and tools for the conduct of strategic management.  Applied projects during this course provide opportunities for individualized and team-based learning.  Teaching approach follows an iterative process of interactive discussions, application of materials, discussion of results, and re-application of materials to new contexts.

COURSE CONTENT

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis
• Scenario analysis and planning
• Rigorous strategic planning methodologies
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Growth Share matrix
• BCG Experience Curve
• Bowman’s Strategy Clock
• Michael Porter’s Value Chain
• Game Theory
• Innovation Acceleration
• Six-Hat Thinking
• Strategic vs. Operational Decisions
• Cognition maps
• Frames of Reference
• Learning organization
• Double-Loop Learning
• Intellectual Capital Management
• Chaos Theory
• Six Sigma
• Customer and Stakeholder analysis
• Conflict Resolution
• Organizational Network Analysis
• Corporate Culture
• Organizational Systems
• Contingency theory
• Market diversity and niche
• Kotter’s Eight Stages of Change

Discipline: Technical & Operations Management
Level: Foundation

Venue: Kuala Lumpur/Dubai

DESIGNED FOR

Geoscientists, Engineers, Team Leaders, Geoscience Technicians, Asset Managers, and anyone involved in petroleum geology and interpretation of geological data.

ABOUT THE COURSE

A basic understanding of Geological concepts and processes is essential in the petroleum industry, for it is used to predict where oil accumulations might occur.  The physical characteristics of a reservoir, how petroleum originated and in what type of rock, what types of fluids exist in the reservoir, how hydrocarbons become trapped, and basic well log analysis are some of the concepts vital to the production and recovery efforts of any exploration or energy service company.

This course aims to provide a basic overview of key geological concepts pertinent to the petroleum industry in exploring for petroleum resources by providing an in-depth explanation of key geological components, as well as identification and analytical techniques.

COURSE CONTENT

After completing this section, you should be able to:

• Define Geology and how it applies to the petroleum industry.
• Define and describe the three basic layers of Earth.
• Differentiate between weathering processes and erosional processes
• Name the three rock types.
• List the components of the rock cycle.
• Explain the three basic principles of relative age dating.
• Define and explain a rock formation.
• Explain the origin of hydrocarbons.
• Define porosity.
• List the controls on porosity.
• Define permeability.
• Define a reservoir.
• List the two most common reservoir rock types and give some general characteristics
• of each type.
• Explain fluid distribution in a petroleum reservoir.
• List and describe the basic hydrocarbon traps.
• Name the different geological mapping techniques used in petroleum exploration.
• Explain the difference between surface and subsurface exploration.
• Explain the basic concepts of well log analysis.