Certificate in Global Oil
and Gas Management

The business of oil and gas is a multifaceted, technically complex, highly capital intensive and often confronted with potential risks and uncertainties. Today’s petroleum industry is dealing with ever increasing levels of complexity, price volatility and competition.  The objective of this 10-Day Certification program is to provide the participants with extensive exposure to the many complex management issues presently confronting the Upstream and Downstream Petroleum Industry and to strengthen their understanding to manage business successful employing latest innovative technologies.   

The drop in the price of oil impacts negatively to the Upstream but enhances profitability of Downstream operations as Refinery margins improve with cheaper feedstock. Furthermore, the Integration of refining and petrochemicals to achieve greater efficiencies is yet another critical factor in the business.

Managing integrated Upstream and Downstream businesses with technically intensive areas such as, exploration, drilling, production, refining, petrochemicals, sales, distribution and trading of oil, gas and refined products require several cross-functional skills that are essential to this competitive industry. All these multi-functional skills and business practices are seamlessly covered in this 10-Day intensive PetroKnowledge training course. 

This PetroKnowledge certification training course on Certificate in Global Oil and Gas Management: Upstream through Downstream will highlight:

• The basics of Hydrocarbon Value Chain optimization from the prospect to burning tip that fuels the global economy and trade
• The essential concepts and best production practices of the international oil & gas supply, transportation, manufacturing of refined products, petrochemicals and trade in the petroleum and petrochemical industries
• Fundamentals of Fiscal terms and conditions, and comparison of World Fiscal Systems enabling participants to grasp the deep business knowledge 
• Understanding of Upstream Concessionary, Production Sharing, Service and Joint Venture Contracts and Downstream Sales, Marketing, Trading Contracts that run the business of world’s largest commodity – oil  
• Mastering the petroleum economics, risk analysis, and petroleum project evaluation
• Demonstration of Upstream business critical factors with “Oil Field Simulator”, and Downstream business critical factors with “Refinery Simulator”, and Market Trading tools used at the World’s Commodity Exchange Centers
• It seamlessly covers the wide-array of critical business functions, processes, and appropriately deals with the business practices and tactics to build the necessary business acumen in the Upstream and Downstream segments of the Petroleum Industry.

This PetroKnowledge training course is split into two modules:

MODULE I - Certificate in Global Upstream Oil & Gas Operations

MODULE II - Certificate in Global Downstream Oil & Gas Operations

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week training course.

By the end of this PetroKnowledge certification training course on Certificate in Global Oil and Gas Management: Upstream through Downstream, participants will learn to:

• Gain broadest perspective of the entire oil, gas and LNG business, from exploration, drilling, production, refining, petrochemicals, sales, marketing and trading
• Achieve maximum understanding of the industry to reach the highest position on the corporate ladder 
• Boost your understanding of the technical and economic efficiencies gained in the Upstream and Downstream applied through new technologies
• Master the petroleum economics, investment analysis, risk analysis and petroleum project evaluation
• Evaluate Fiscal terms and conditions, and compare the World Fiscal systems to grasp deep business knowledge
• Gain understanding of Concessionary, Production Sharing, Service and Joint Venture Contracts in Upstream; and Sales, Marketing and Trading Contracts in Downstream
• Boost your understanding of the fundamentals of downstream business: refined product quality, blending & valuation of oil for trade, freight and netback calculation & refinery margins calculations, vessel chartering, pipelines & terminals, etc.
• Master the Total barrel economics, Oil market futures, hedging and futures, and price management considerations
• Evaluate the technical, commercial, legal, safety and environmental aspects of oil business
• Confidently discuss the technical terms, concepts and buzzwords with your peers and clients

This PetroKnowledge certification training course on Certificate in Global Oil and Gas Management: Upstream through Downstream is designed to train and improve the business knowledge of a wide range of professionals as follows: 

• Business Development managers
• Corporate Planning professionals
• Geoscience & Engineering professionals
• Refinery professionals
• Supply Planners & Scheduling professionals
• Government regulators
• Law professionals
• Tax & Finance advisors
• Auditing personnel  
• Compliance officers
• Equity analyst and Bankers
• Joint Venture officers
• Negotiators and Contracting professionals
• Trading professionals

This accelerated PetroKnowledge 2-week certification program on Certificate in Global Oil and Gas Management: Upstream through Downstream is designed to capture essential Petroleum Industry management skills and core competencies in a comprehensive training.  This will inspire delegate participation through a combination of group discussion, practical exercises, case studies, and quizzes. It includes an extensive use of technical videos highlighting a wide array of Upstream & Downstream Hydrocarbon value chain additions from the initial exploration, drilling, production, refining to the sales & marketing and trading of crude, natural gas, LNG, and refined products.

Wide spectrum of this training includes Fiscal regimes in Concessionary, Production Sharing and Joint Venture Contracts; as wells as Sales and Trading Contracts, and HSE considerations to reinforce new knowledge and skills.  There will be discussion of practical issues in participants organizations.

Supplementary Training Material, Tools and Techniques include the following:

• Upstream Oil & Gas Maps – Global and Regional Oil & Gas Fields, World Gas Map, Conventional & Shale Oil Fields, World LNG Map, & World Pipelines
• World Downstream Maps – Global and Regional, Oil Refineries, Oil Export Terminals, LNG Export & Import Plants, and Renewable Energy Installed Capacity
• Hands-on Review of Actual Upstream Concessionary, Production Sharing, & JV Contracts and other Documents
• Hands-on Review of Downstream Sales Contracts, Sales Documents – FOB, CIF, DES Contracts, Futures Contract, Forward Contract, SWAP, Options for Oil, Gas & Refined Products
• Price-Risk Management review through Futures Contract, Forward Contract, SWAP, Options for Oil, Gas & Refined Products
• Comparison of World Fiscal Systems – Major producers in North America, Africa, Middle East, Europe
• Technical Videos – Horizontal Drilling, Cementing & Completion, Hydraulic Fracturing, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Steam Injection, Micellar Flooding, CO2 Injection, Deep Sea Robotics, FLNG, VLCC’s etc.
• Glossary & Abbreviations in Oil & Gas Industry
• Oil & Gas Reservoir Simulator – US Department of Energy Tool to demonstrate Oil & Gas Production from a oil & gas well – Production decline time
• Refinery Simulator – Production of Naphtha, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuels, Kerosene, Fuel Oil, and Asphalt. Blending to meet specifications
• Oil & Gas Market Data Trading Simulator – New York, London, Dubai & Singapore Commodity Exchanges
• Case Studies & Exercises in Upstream operations

By sending their employees to this PetroKnowledge certification training course, the organization will gain a wider range of skills that participants gain and henceforth apply in their workspace that will directly benefits their respective companies:

• Offers a wider management perspective of global Upstream and Downstream businesses and highlights the success factors in each category of the several business models
• Defines how innovations in Upstream and Downstream oil & gas energy and renewables are helping to drive the global economic growth and improving the living standards around the world
• Clarifies how we can achieve these high efficiencies goals while delivering enhanced value to shareholders
• Inculcates the corporate culture of effectively dealing with the core issues, tactics and essential concepts of successfully running the global petroleum business

Each participant will be able to enhance technical knowledge and business skills of Petroleum Industry that will directly benefit his/her career growth:

• Master the core competencies of Upstream and Downstream of oil, natural gas, LNG, refined products, petrochemicals, Transportation and Pipeline operations 
• Sharpen the business skills by learning those technique that improve capital productivity and operational excellence
• Understand the value chain optimization in Hydrocarbon Industry and apply at the workplace to improve stockholders value
• Be fully cognizant of success factors in oil, gas, LNG, refined products, petrochemicals operations, and how to effectively deal with price risk uncertainties and manage price risk effectively  
• Hedging the risk at corporate level, business segment level and at individual transaction level