Assess the current state of multi-year exploration programmes against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Managing Multi-Year Exploration Programmes and Measuring Success Rates
A senior-level treatment of multi-year exploration programmes, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in multi-year exploration programmes; it has added to it. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations both accrue interest. The most reliable predictor of sound the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what multi-year exploration programmes has actually achieved. Participants who influence the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The version of the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of multi-year exploration programmes rather than to abstract argument. The course sets out a working method for the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline that participants can apply the week they return. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Diagnose whether a problem in multi-year exploration programmes is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around multi-year exploration programmes.
Verify that contractors working on multi-year exploration programmes meet the same standard as direct staff.
Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in multi-year exploration programmes.
Apply recognised integrity and inspection practice to multi-year exploration programmes.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving multi-year exploration programmes.
Who Should Attend
Department heads accountable for the results of multi-year exploration programmes.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes multi-year exploration programmes.
Facility and plant managers accountable for multi-year exploration programmes.
Operations and production engineers responsible for multi-year exploration programmes.
Project engineers delivering capital work involving multi-year exploration programmes.
Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering multi-year exploration programmes.
Course Modules
Multi-year exploration programmes: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the instrumentation on multi-year exploration programmes is and is not telling you
- Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for multi-year exploration programmes.
- Rank the weaknesses in multi-year exploration programmes by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of multi-year exploration programmes.
- Model the economics of multi-year exploration programmes at low, base and high price cases.
Session 2What the last incident involving multi-year exploration programmes should have taught us
- Verify isolation points for multi-year exploration programmes are proven and documented.
- Name a single owner for each element of multi-year exploration programmes.
- Define the safe operating envelope for multi-year exploration programmes and how deviations are detected.
- Identify single points of dependency in multi-year exploration programmes and reduce them.
Multi-year exploration programmes: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The environmental exposure created by multi-year exploration programmes
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to multi-year exploration programmes and remove nuisance alarms.
- Reduce the variation in how multi-year exploration programmes is carried out between teams.
- Estimate the resource multi-year exploration programmes requires to run as designed.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving multi-year exploration programmes.
Session 2The operating limits on multi-year exploration programmes and what happens beyond them
- Set escalation thresholds for multi-year exploration programmes that work out of hours.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for multi-year exploration programmes.
- Identify the failure modes of multi-year exploration programmes with the highest consequence.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to multi-year exploration programmes will be introduced.
Multi-year exploration programmes: competence, certification and handover
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing multi-year exploration programmes with recognised practice
- Agree the smallest change to multi-year exploration programmes that would be visibly useful.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on multi-year exploration programmes.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on multi-year exploration programmes.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to multi-year exploration programmes.
Session 2Building the investment case for multi-year exploration programmes that finance will accept
- Close out actions on multi-year exploration programmes rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on multi-year exploration programmes.
- Rehearse the briefing on multi-year exploration programmes that would follow an incident.
- Confirm that lessons from multi-year exploration programmes are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Multi-year exploration programmes: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of multi-year exploration programmes honestly
- Check that the permit regime covering multi-year exploration programmes matches the actual hazard.
- Confirm handover documentation for multi-year exploration programmes is complete and current.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about multi-year exploration programmes.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to multi-year exploration programmes.
Session 2Making multi-year exploration programmes work when resources are constrained
- Remove steps in multi-year exploration programmes that add effort without adding assurance.
- Review the instrumentation on multi-year exploration programmes for coverage gaps.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios multi-year exploration programmes can create.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to multi-year exploration programmes.
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