
An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Professionals
Oil & Gas Management Competencies
UPCOMING SESSIONS
Date | Venue | Fee | |
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24-28 Nov 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
30 Mar-03 Apr 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
07-11 Sep 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
30 Nov-04 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Date | Venue | Fee | |
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02-06 Feb 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
22-26 Jun 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
The Oil & Gas industry is experiencing its most significant transformation in two decades due to a rise in oil production alongside a drop in demand. Prolonged low oil prices are reshaping the geopolitical dynamics within the sector. The shale oil and gas revolution has driven the need for innovative business models, leading to numerous mergers among international oil companies across both the upstream and downstream sectors of the supply chain. With global petroleum demand hitting record highs, the complexities surrounding the Oil & Gas industry are also growing.
This Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Professionals training course equips individuals with the core skills to develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry and the competencies needed to navigate its challenges.
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Build knowledge as to the nature and challenges facing the oil and gas industry
- Understand the key players and commercial drivers
- Examine the industry structure with specific emphasis on the complete value chain
- Understand framing agreements including joint ventures and product sharing contracts
- Examine the importance of effective project planning and execution including risk management and Earned value management analysis
Designed for
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Oil and Gas professionals:
- Senior and middle managers
- Accountants and finance professionals responsible for financial accounting, treasury, internal audit,budget preparation and management reporting
- HR, contracting and procurement and IT professionals
- Line managers with strategic planning and operational budgeting responsibility
- New entrants to the Oil & Gas industry
- Professional advisers and Business Consultants
Learning Methods
This Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Professionals training course will be highly participatory and your seminar leader will present, guide and facilitate learning, using a range of methods including discussions, case studies and where appropriate, these will include real case examples. The training course will be concluded with a capstone exercise.
By combining analysis, problems and examples with real case studies - lessons learned from the seminar will be applied to your organisation. Key performance indicators (KPIs) for the critical success factors (CSFs) will focus attention on high priority action plans for taking back to your organisation.
The Course Outline
- The nature of the Oil and Gas industry
- Upstream, midstream and downstream operations
- Exploration, evaluation production and reserve estimates
- Structures and business models -Lifting and production costs
- Strategic challenges and opportunities facing the industry’s key players
- IOC’s & NOC’s Fiscal agreements &contracting strategies for the oil and gas industries
- Reward structures and options
- Importance of project planning
- Front end loading - Hot spots and challenges
- Capital project planning and execution
- Implementing effective project control framework
- Evaluating project opportunities
- Cash-Flow Analysis and Time Value of Money
- Key Profitability Indicators NPV, IRR, UTC, Payback
- Calculating a discounted cash flow
- What is a cost estimate and what factors influence an estimate?
- Earned value management analysis for measuring project performance and reporting
- What is risk management and why it is important?
- Risk management as applied to capital projects.
- Specifying objectives and identifying project uncertainties
- Technical and non-technical risks
- Risk register review and analysis
- Stakeholder identification and mapping
- Case study – The Shale Gas Revolution in the United States
- Impact of shale gas on the world Oil and Gas stage
- Geopolitics of Oil and Gaspricing
- Summary and course wrap up
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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