Close oil and gas project management properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Managing Oil and Gas Sector Projects and Their Operational Challenges
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run oil and gas project management properly.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Scope on oil and gas project management expands through small agreements made in isolation. The estimate for project management that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Practitioner evidence points the same way: the practice within project and portfolio delivery improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. Participants gain a realistic view of what oil and gas project management costs and what it returns. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for this area of project and portfolio delivery, not for observers of it. The programme is built to be used, and every section of project management it covers ends in something applicable. Every module pairs a short input on oil and gas project management with structured practice on the participant's own material. Moving project management from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this part of project and portfolio delivery ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Track progress on project management by earned value rather than by activity completed.
Integrate oil and gas project management into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Build the reporting on project management that gives early warning rather than reassurance.
Estimate what oil and gas project management costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Manage stakeholders of project management according to influence and interest.
Assign clear ownership for each element of oil and gas project management across the functions involved.
Who Should Attend
Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of oil and gas project management.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring project management.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of oil and gas project management directly.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on project management.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on oil and gas project management.
Technical leads delivering work packages within project management.
Course Modules
Oil and gas project management: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in oil and gas project management and what to ignore
- Hold a lessons session on oil and gas project management while memory is accurate.
- Estimate project management using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Check that records of oil and gas project management answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Close out actions on project management rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Estimating project management without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Measure progress on oil and gas project management by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of project management current.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to oil and gas project management.
- Register the risks to project management with owner, probability and impact.
Project management: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing project management with recognised practice
- Define the decision gates for oil and gas project management and what evidence each requires.
- Prepare the recovery plan for project management before it is needed.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about oil and gas project management.
- Review whether project management is aligned with the objectives of the project.
Session 2Pricing every change to project management
- Agree the indicators that will show whether oil and gas project management is improving.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of project management.
- Confirm that those complying with oil and gas project management understand why it exists.
- Build reporting on project management that surfaces problems while they are small.
Project management: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing the scope of project management including what is excluded
- Define how the benefit from oil and gas project management will be measured after closure.
- Set the change control process for project management and require cost and time impact.
- Manage supplier performance on oil and gas project management against contract, not goodwill.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to project management will be introduced.
Session 2Building a schedule for oil and gas project management with a real critical path
- Agree what will be standardised in oil and gas project management and what will not.
- Confirm that reporting on project management reaches the people who can act.
- Plan handover of oil and gas project management to the team that will operate it.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for project management.
Project management: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Decision gates on project management that can actually stop it
- Identify the critical path through oil and gas project management and the float elsewhere.
- Name a single owner for each element of project management.
- Compare resource demand from oil and gas project management against other commitments.
- Test the procedure for project management against a realistic scenario.
Session 2Testing project management before relying on it
- Set out how exceptions to oil and gas project management are requested and approved.
- Build the competence framework that supports project management.
- Write the scope statement for oil and gas project management including explicit exclusions.
- Map stakeholders of project management by influence and current level of support.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- 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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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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