Delivering Successful Projects
within the Oil & Gas Industry

Projects within the Oil & Gas sector face many prominent issues and the challenge of delivering projects has become more and more difficult. The challenges are increasingly complex; delivering innovative and technological solutions where schedules are compressed, budgets looking for cost efficiencies, safety is crucial and a network of stakeholders concerned about its impact on the environment and communities.

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

This exciting and highly interactive 5-day training course provides participants with the key skills required to plan, execute, control and successfully deliver projects in the most challenging of environments.  In order to assist delegates to achieve this, we make good use of industry best practice project management tools backed-up with practical instruction. This PetroKnowledge training course will also help the delegates to identify and develop solutions that will stand them in good stead in the future and to help improve the effectiveness of their project-delivery.

Key areas covered include:

• Understand the importance of clear requirements for project delivery within the Oil & Gas industry
• Understand structural and systematic aspects of project planning and execution that can be used
• Relate to best practice project management philosophies
• Comprehend how project success is measured with emphasis on time, cost, quality and scope
• Perform analytical techniques of project management using best-practice techniques
• Understand the need for the project manager to be leading and managing project teams

This training course will highlight:

• How to establish the key requirements in an Oil & Gas project
• The route to successful project integration and delivery
• The importance of leading and managing a successful project team

This training course intends to guide successful project selection and delivery.

Criteria to be observed in generating the objectives:

• Identify with and manage stakeholders via relevant communication strategies
• Maintain continuous project performance and delivery control
• Accurately estimate and allocate project costs and resources
• Compress or accelerate the schedule when required
• Develop a project close-out plan in line with expected success criteria

By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

• Understand the importance of integrating scope, time, resources and costs into a dynamic, manageable project management plan
• Systematically define, design, and integrate end-user requirements in the project
• Identify risk sources and learn how to mitigate potential risks and deal with uncertainty
• Develop project network diagrams for CPM and PERT to identify schedule and cost risks
• Develop a project recovery plan for budget and schedule overruns
• Produce clear, concise project progress reports based on actual measurements and forecasts

This PetroKnowledge course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Programme and Project managers
• Project Support Managers
• Senior Project Control Professionals with responsibility for managing project schedules and costs
• Project Lead Engineers who manage packages of work

Participants will receive a thorough training with the Tutor utilising a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. Training methodology includes an insight into industry best practice project management delivery tools and processes. This PetroKnowledge course uses an applicable case study, and includes group discussion and critical analysis of actual projects. Prior knowledge of the fundamentals of projects is assumed, but will be covered briefly to ensure general understanding. New concepts and tools are introduced to enable delegates to progress from fundamental to more advanced project concepts.