Planning Cross-Border Pipeline Routes and Managing Agreements

Course Overview

Assets involved in cross-border pipeline planning routinely outlive the engineers who commissioned them. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability — it punishes it. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations. The course gives participants a defensible structure for cross-border pipeline planning and the judgement to adapt it. Buying a tool rarely fixes this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability and prepares them for it. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in cross-border pipeline planning that were visible long before the incident. Participants gain a realistic view of what this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations costs and what it returns. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations that participants can repeat annually.