Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from exploration block licensing.
Exploration Block Licensing Strategies and Negotiating with Governments
Build a working method for exploration block licensing that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
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5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on exploration block licensing both accrue interest. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations — it punishes it. Across sectors, teams that rehearse the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda outperform teams that only plan it. Progress on exploration block licensing is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The course covers this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on exploration block licensing are used deliberately. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda in an order their organisation can absorb. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Adapt recognised practice on exploration block licensing to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Build a register of the risks attaching to exploration block licensing and keep it current.
Model the economics of exploration block licensing under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in exploration block licensing.
Define the scope and boundaries of exploration block licensing so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Structure contracts and service agreements covering exploration block licensing.
Who Should Attend
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for exploration block licensing.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with exploration block licensing in real time.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around exploration block licensing.
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on exploration block licensing.
Anyone whose accountability for exploration block licensing exceeds their current formal training in it.
Facility and plant managers accountable for exploration block licensing.
Course Modules
Exploration block licensing: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the last incident involving exploration block licensing should have taught us
- Review the instrumentation on exploration block licensing for coverage gaps.
- Verify isolation points for exploration block licensing are proven and documented.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around exploration block licensing are understood.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to exploration block licensing.
Session 2Competence and handover on exploration block licensing when experienced staff leave
- Rank the weaknesses in exploration block licensing by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Rehearse the briefing on exploration block licensing that would follow an incident.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to exploration block licensing.
- Identify the failure modes of exploration block licensing with the highest consequence.
Exploration block licensing: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing exploration block licensing with recognised practice
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on exploration block licensing.
- Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for exploration block licensing.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to exploration block licensing and remove nuisance alarms.
- Define the safe operating envelope for exploration block licensing and how deviations are detected.
Session 2Deciding between life extension and replacement for exploration block licensing
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios exploration block licensing can create.
- Confirm that lessons from exploration block licensing are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Close out actions on exploration block licensing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Set out how exceptions to exploration block licensing are requested and approved.
Exploration block licensing: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The environmental exposure created by exploration block licensing
- Model the economics of exploration block licensing at low, base and high price cases.
- Check that records of exploration block licensing answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Agree what will be standardised in exploration block licensing and what will not.
- Agree the smallest change to exploration block licensing that would be visibly useful.
Session 2Reading condition data on exploration block licensing before failure, not after
- Identify the data already collected that bears on exploration block licensing.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on exploration block licensing.
- Arrange the handover of exploration block licensing so capability survives staff changes.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving exploration block licensing.
Exploration block licensing: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in exploration block licensing and how to reason about them
- Check that the permit regime covering exploration block licensing matches the actual hazard.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of exploration block licensing.
- Set escalation thresholds for exploration block licensing that work out of hours.
- Compare the cost of exploration block licensing with the cost of its absence.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in exploration block licensing
- Build the competence framework that supports exploration block licensing.
- Define acceptance criteria for exploration block licensing in advance.
- Confirm handover documentation for exploration block licensing is complete and current.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to exploration block licensing.
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