Environmental Sustainability
in the Oil & Gas Industry

This Environmental Sustainability in the Oil & Gas Industry training course addresses the raft of issues that face companies in the hydrocarbon industries. The global focus on climate change and damaging environmental emissions has cast the oil and gas industry as a problem sector. High revenues and high performance targets have often been associated with high incident rates some of which have become high-profile disasters, oil-spills and financial irregularities that impact company performance in to the medium term and fuel public distrust and protest. 

Many Oil and Gas companies and even regulators have determined that the while the business case for Environmental Sustainability is compelling and regulations and standards have and are being put in place to underpin it, culture change is the key to effecting the changes in behaviour needed to address the operational risks to sustaining an oil and gas company’s performance over the medium term. This training course will give you: The financial and social business cases that underpin a company’s drive towards emission and human incident reduction; An overview of the regulations, standards and industry initiatives that are available to executives and managers within the industry to change operational cultures and reduce risks to sustaining performance over the medium term; An understanding of the external drivers behind global Environmental sustainability and the other medium to long term risks to the industry. 

This PetroKnowledge Environmental Sustainability in the Oil & Gas Industry training course will highlight:

• The development of a strategic approach to Environmental Sustainability and Responsible Business Conduct
• The scale of the growing external risks to the medium term performance of oil and gas companies  
• Internal operational risks to medium term company performance
• Business cases for internal emissions and human incident reduction
• Initiatives and tools that support a culture of emissions and human incident reduction

This training course will focus on the practical and theoretical aspects of developing a culture of responsible emission and incident reduction.

At the end of this Environmental Sustainability in the Oil & Gas Industry training course, you will learn to:

• Assess the external risks to medium term oil and gas company performance
• Develop a business case for responsible internal emission and incident reduction
• Appreciate the internal risk to operational performance and why culture change offers the best mitigation
• Develop a culture change initiative to deliver and sustain emission and human incident reductions that leverages existing industry and external initiatives and tools

This PetroKnowledge Environmental Sustainability in the Oil & Gas Industry training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Corporate strategists and Planners
• Environmental Sustainability Specialist
• Operational Executives and Managers
• Project and Programme Managers

This training course uses a range of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding and retention of the information presented. This includes stimulating presentations supporting each of the topics together with interactive trainer lead discussion sessions and practical activities. Case studies – many on video – will be used throughout the programme.

There will also be many practical sessions where participants have the opportunity to practice and experience course related activities. Practical and fun exercises, short video presentations, small group work and feedback will be used to facilitate learning.

Changing the operational culture to support emission and human incident reduction will enhance operational performance and lower the risks to sustaining the organisation’s performance over the medium term.

This training course will:

• Improve the development of business cases for operational emission and human incident reduction
• Increase the understanding of executives and managers as to the benefits of developing an operational culture of emission and human incident reduction
• Increase the understanding of executives and managers of the external and industry programmes and tools available to support an initiative to effect and sustain operational emission and human incident reduction

• Increase understanding of executives and managers as to the external drivers for responsible emission and incident reduction by Oil and Gas companies

By attending this training course, participants will develop:

• Practical contributions to underpin the development of emission reduction business cases
• A detailed understanding of some of the external initiatives and tools available to support emission and human incident reduction in the oil and gas industry
• Practice in developing an operational emission reduction or human incident reduction initiative
• A detailed understanding of external drivers for Environmental Sustainability and Responsible Business conduct in the Oil and Gas industry