Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in environmental impact assessment — it punishes it. The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations; it has added to it. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations and prepares them for it. The professional literature on environmental impact assessment converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations before they become incidents. The programme takes participants through this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. What blocks progress on environmental impact assessment is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. It is designed for mixed groups, so that the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda is examined from more than one functional angle. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in environmental impact assessment.
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Integrate environmental impact assessment with the wider process safety management system.
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Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to environmental impact assessment across the asset life cycle.
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Compare the organisation's handling of environmental impact assessment with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
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Test the organisation's response to environmental impact assessment under conditions that are less than ideal.
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Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from environmental impact assessment.
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Set acceptance criteria for environmental impact assessment before work begins rather than after.
Who Should Attend
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Department heads accountable for the results of environmental impact assessment.
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Inspection and integrity engineers assessing environmental impact assessment.
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Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering environmental impact assessment.
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Operations staff who encounter the consequences of environmental impact assessment directly.
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Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing environmental impact assessment.
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Operations and production engineers responsible for environmental impact assessment.
Course Modules
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01
Environmental impact assessment: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Competence and handover on environmental impact assessment when experienced staff leave
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about environmental impact assessment.
Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to environmental impact assessment.
Identify the data already collected that bears on environmental impact assessment.
Review the instrumentation on environmental impact assessment for coverage gaps.
Session 2Building the investment case for environmental impact assessment that finance will accept
Model the economics of environmental impact assessment at low, base and high price cases.
Confirm that lessons from environmental impact assessment are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to environmental impact assessment.
Check that records of environmental impact assessment answer the questions likely to be asked.
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Environmental impact assessment: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Getting other functions to support environmental impact assessment
Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on environmental impact assessment.
Establish the alarm philosophy applying to environmental impact assessment and remove nuisance alarms.
Estimate the resource environmental impact assessment requires to run as designed.
Verify isolation points for environmental impact assessment are proven and documented.
Session 2What the instrumentation on environmental impact assessment is and is not telling you
Confirm handover documentation for environmental impact assessment is complete and current.
Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios environmental impact assessment can create.
Close out actions on environmental impact assessment rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Check that the permit regime covering environmental impact assessment matches the actual hazard.
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Environmental impact assessment: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Escalation and decision rights in environmental impact assessment
Set the review interval for environmental impact assessment and who attends.
Review incident and near-miss history involving environmental impact assessment.
Benchmark the organisation's environmental impact assessment against comparable operations.
Build the internal briefing that explains environmental impact assessment to those affected.
Session 2The operating limits on environmental impact assessment and what happens beyond them
Identify the failure modes of environmental impact assessment with the highest consequence.
Agree the smallest change to environmental impact assessment that would be visibly useful.
Collect evidence on the present handling of environmental impact assessment before proposing changes.
Define the safe operating envelope for environmental impact assessment and how deviations are detected.
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Environmental impact assessment: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The permit and isolation regime that environmental impact assessment actually requires
Check that management of change is applied to every modification of environmental impact assessment.
Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on environmental impact assessment.
Distinguish symptoms from causes when environmental impact assessment underperforms.
Check that environmental impact assessment still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2What to measure in environmental impact assessment and what to ignore
Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in environmental impact assessment.
Remove steps in environmental impact assessment that add effort without adding assurance.
Prepare the response for the most likely failure in environmental impact assessment.
Define acceptance criteria for environmental impact assessment in advance.
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USD1,250
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Airport Transfers
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
Workshop or Program Participation
Airport Transfers
Customized Badge
Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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