INTRODUCTION

If you are working in the Oil and Gas Industry and have Safety in your job description then this is the training session you must attend. The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) has specifically set out this programme in order to provide an internationally recognised certificate for the Oil and Gas Industry. This recognised qualification provides an excellent basic grounding in the essentials of health and safety for the Oil and Gas Industry. You will learn about, Health, Safety and Environmental management, Hydrocarbon Process Safety, Fire Protection and Emergency Response Logistics and Transport Operations. This programme is not a basic Health and Safety programme but is a ‘sector specific’ programme. Although NEBOSH does not specify any prior qualifications for this programme it does recommend that delegates should have a sound appreciation of Health and Safety e.g. having attended the NEBOSH International General Certificate programme.

PROGRAMME DURATION

The duration of the programme is 6 days – 5 days lectures and 1 day for exams.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• The International Technical Certificate in Oil gas Operational Safety is aimed at professionals, who are involved in the Oil and Gas Industry have responsibilities for health and safety and require an internationally recognised measure of competence in this field.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• The understanding of Health Safety and Environment management
• Appreciate Hydrocarbon process safety including safe maintenance
• Fire safety and fire protection
• How to react in case of emergencies
• Logistics and transport operations control

ELEMENT 1: Health, Safety and environmental management in context

• Learning from Incidents
• Hazards inherent in oil and gas
• Risk Management Techniques used in the oil and gas industries
• Safety Reports

ELEMENT 2: Hydrocarbon process safety 1

• Management of Contractor
• Process Safety Management
• Permit-to-work system
• Shift handover the key principles
• Plant maintenance and operations

ELEMENT 3: Hydrocarbon process safety 2

• Failure modes
• Safety critical equipment controls
• Safe storage of hydrocarbons
• Furnace and boiler operations

ELEMENT 4: Fire protection and emergency response

• Fire and explosion risk in the oil and gas industries
• Emergency Response

ELEMENT 5: Logistics and Transport operations 

• Marine Transport
• Land Transport

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Simply being as good at Oil & gas procurement as your competition, is not acceptable being ahead of the game must be the desire and aim, in what can be a demanding and specialised vertical. The skill of your programme leader is to raise uncomfortable challenges for procurement and supply chain specialists and persuade them that they must seek continuous improvement and innovation. It is the Art of Buying.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Leaders of Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Contracts, Projects, Sourcing professionals from Oil and Gas Operating companies and related stakeholders (contractors, suppliers, service providers, industry governance roles)

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• Challenge traditional Oil & Gas Procurement behaviour
• Inculcate a desire to lead and implement change
• Demonstrate, by example, that change is possible, despite many obstacles
• Examine relevant Oil & Gas Procurement knowledge and skills to enable change
• Encourage active debate on salient points – learning and sharing from your peers

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This highly interactive programme will include presentations, detailed case studies, group exercises and discussion to enable delegates to appreciate the full value that can be derived from best in class procurement. Developing innovative Oil & Gas procurement and supply chain strategies will enable and equip you to stay ahead in an ever changing and competitive market.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

This programme explores essential facets of the Art of Buying in Oil & Gas Procurement to ensure competitive advantage for you and your organisation. The programme begins with consideration of ‘world class’ expertise. It then moves to consider tools for managing risk in procurement and critical supply chains and the key questions of your contractors’ Contractual obligations and challenging their pricing decisions.

From there it proceeds to negotiation techniques, essential to take the lead in Oil Gas procurement – as well as managing (and resolving) disputes.  The programme further explores innovative actions that you can take immediately after the programme to drive change management behaviour.

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Budgeting lies at the heart of business management, yet businesses often encounter financial difficulties as a result of either inadequate planning or errors within the compilation of the budgets.

This programme takes a practical approach to financial planning for the organisation and considers the following:

• The planning process and how to improve it
• The compilation of budgets – who needs to be involved and why;
• How to identify potential problems arising and suggests actions which can be taken
• Ways of improving financial control using effective management reporting

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Professionals responsible for budget preparation and management reporting
• Process owners who require a more in-depth understanding of integrated planning and budgeting techniques, along with Financial planners and cost analysts
• Anyone with direct planning and budgeting responsibility, as well as advisors, accountants and business consultants

PROGRAMM OBJECTIVES

• Implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process
• Integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company’s long-term strategic vision
• Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
• Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
• Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
• Increase profitability and performance through stream lined planning and reporting

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines presentations, discussions, team exercises and case studies. Delegates will gain both a theoretical and a practical knowledge of all the topics covered. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result delegates will return to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned.

All delegates will receive a comprehensive manual of the programme to take back to the company, which will serve as a useful source of reference in the future. In addition, all delegates will receive a CD containing a soft copy of additional material such as Excel models used during the programme.

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This programme provides the participants with fundamental principles, evaluation and applications of Cathodic Protection, helping them recognise and then select Cathodic Protection control methods.

The main topics include, general and specific corrosion principles, types of corrosion, corrosion protection, soil resistivity surveys, potential surveys, line currents, current requirement surveys, rectifier systems for coated lines, ground bed design and installation, galvanic anodes on coated lines, hot spot protection, bond protection, stray current electrolysis, interference, operation and maintenance, and coating inspection and testing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? 

• Personnel needing a basic understanding of cathodic protection and how to eliminate or protect equipment, pipelines, storage tanks, etc
• It is also suitable for Engineers; Inspectors, Managers; Metallurgists and Technicians 

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES 

• Understand the general principles of corrosion and corrosion protection techniques
• Understand the cathodic protection systems; namely sacrificial anode and impressed current
• Appreciate the differences between sacrificial anode systems
• Understand  the principals behind impressed current CP
• Know the influence of coating properties and their influence on CP
• Learn how to makimg basic field measurements for CP applications
• Understand and use the governing equations related to CP calculations
• Corrosion test methods and interpretation of results

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The programme will be presented using highly interactive combination of lectures, videos and simulations. Discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information and knowledge transfer. Questions, comments and personal experience from every participant will have a chance to be heard and discussed.

Case studies are encouraged to be brought by the participant. These case studies will be discussed thoroughly and will be shared by all participants. Participants will be provided with comprehensive course notes and soft copies of presentation material that will be very valuable for detailed study and future reference.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY 

Corrosion is a common and a very expensive problem in most of the industry. An understanding of corrosion and its control is vital for any company hoping to avoid the high costs that can be directly or indirectly attributed to corrosion.

This programme is intended to provide the participants with principles and application of an important corrosion minimisation technique – Cathodic Protection – which can be divided into Sacrificial Anode or Impressed Voltage.

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Risk and incident analysis are closely interlinked, as it follows that in an organisation’s established occupational health, safety and process management systems – the prime purpose is to evaluate and analyse the effectiveness of both these risk-based systems, together with new and/or existing occupational health and safety and, process risk control arrangements, based on proposed and/or existing implemented Layers of Protection (LOPs) – the organisation’s risk control measures.

In addition, an essential part of risk and incident analysis is to provide management with decision making criteria for determining and subsequently establishing an organisation’s range of acceptable, tolerable and unacceptable risk category levels for the effective management of all their significant health, safety and process risks.

In this programme delegates will advance their knowledge and skills by:

• Understanding the importance and role of risk and incident analysis
• Learning the principles of risk management and assessment process
• Being able to analyse risks and incidents using 12 stage analysis approach
• Learning how to select/implement pro-active incident prevention measures
• Understanding pre and post risk and incident management 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Management and those with responsibilities for analysing risks and incidents
• Production, process, maintenance, and HSE personnel
• Line-management involved in planning and/or implementing the organisation’s risk and incident analysis programmes 

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• Risk and incident analysis techniques
• Identification of potential plant, process and work task related risks
• Developing and implementing Risk Management programmes
• Carrying out comprehensive incident analysis using evaluation tools, including root cause analysis (RCA)
• Develop skills for analysing new and existing risk control measures and improving incident analysis techniques of pre and post risk and incident management arrangements 

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Delegates will learn by active participation through inspiring presentation tools and interactive programme and role-playing activities, presented in a lively, enthusiastic and interesting style. Delegates will take part in topic exercises, case studies and the practical programme. 

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

The purpose of this programme is to provide delegates with the advanced skills and knowledge to successfully analyse new and existing risk control measures and conduct effective incident analysis. The programme will show delegates how they can evaluate, determine and implement effective risk control measures to prevent serious incident occurring and/or re-occurring

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This programme is designed to equip leaders and professionals who wish to obtain and use techniques which will help prevent and identify fraud and corruption in their workplace.

The focus will be on identifying characteristics and behaviour that may indicate the presence of fraud or corruption and also the managing of the risk that it brings to business.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Designed for senior managers, leaders and professionals at all levels who are responsible for protecting their company from the risks that fraud and corruption can bring to the continued success of their business
• Also be of benefit to consultants in all areas of business, giving them insight to the effect that fraud and corruption can have on their areas of expertise

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• Know what fraud and corruption means and involves
• Understand the risk it poses to business
• Identify areas and clues that indicate that fraud and corruption may be present
• Know what International arenas provide help and information in fighting these problems
• Identify common factors which create corruption opportunities
• Understand the role of money laundering
• Understand techniques to prevent fraud
• Start an Anti-Fraud programme within their business
• Understand the effect of change and how to manage it within the business as you implement new programmes to prevent fraud and corruption

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The programme is designed to be taught interactively with exercises, facilitation of group discussions, video clips, slides and discussions around real life examples. Everyone will be encouraged to participate and will realise how much they will have to contribute through their own experiences.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

Participants will be introduced to the ever changing world of Fraud and Corruption in the workplace. They will achieve the following:

• Understand what is meant by Fraud, Theft and Corruption
• Learn about Money Laundering and methods used to clean ill gotten gains
• Get an insight as to why people in organisations turn to these activities
• Understand that no one can be exempt from suspicion and why
• Learn to recognise signals indicating the possible presence of Fraud and Corruption
• Be equipped to introduce policy and an anti-fraud programme within their company
• Learn about the regulatory bodies helping the fight worldwide, that they may encounter and have regulatory dealings with
• Be able to assess the Fraud and Corporate risk existing
• Understand how to use Investigative techniques effectively and understanding the minefield that they can become.
• Be able to recognise that implementation of new or different programmes may encounter resistance within the company and from customers and competitors and methods of dealing with that resistance.
• Understand the importance of leading from the top and the consistency and support that this needs to show throughout

Be confident in reporting any suspicions through the appropriate channels to try and ensure that the company and as a consequence your own employment is compromised and put at risk.

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While the object of international contracting is to write and manage contracts so as to minimize disputes, some disagreements are inevitable. These can arise from failures by one of the parties, but also often arise from misunderstandings as to obligations under the contract.

This programme will look at how claims (and counter claims) arise; how they should be evaluated when received, or prepared when being delivered, and how to resolve disputes arising from such claims. It will also, and most importantly, look at ways of avoiding disputed claims in the first place.

Once a dispute starts, it can usually be solved most effectively by negotiation between the parties. However, if this does not prove effective, some sort of third party intervention is required.

Traditionally, this has tended to focus on either involving state courts (litigation) or the equivalent private method of getting a third party to make a decision (arbitration). However, there are now many more techniques available in the international market, including expert determination, mini-arbitration, pendulum arbitration, adjudication, and other techniques whereby a third party decides the matter for the parties. In addition, there are also mediation, conciliation, hybrid solutions such as Arb/Med, where a third party facilitates the settlement by the parties themselves, rather than imposing a decision. Many of these techniques rely on looking at the parties’ interests, rather than their strict legal rights.

All of these processes, and indeed, claims and counterclaims generally, become more complicated when placed in an international context. This is particularly the case where a foreign law and/or legal system is involved, with which you may not be familiar, and which may include rules which conflict with those of your own country.

The programme will deal with commercial disputes arising from Contracts written in the English language, but will use techniques which have wide application to the resolution of disputes.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Contracts analysis
•  Contract engineers
• Cost/planning engineers
• Individuals involved in tendering/contracting functions
• Project Managers
• Contract Administrators
• Contracting Unit Supervisors
• Claims Managers and Business Audit Officers
• Contract Strategists
• General Managers involved in contract negotiation and disputes
• Commercial Managers
• Legal Department staff looking for new techniques and an international approach
• Anyone involved in the strategy and management of disputes

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• Provide an understanding of how and why claims and counterclaims arise
• Explain the differences between claims and counterclaims
• Identify common causes of claims and disputes, and how to avoid them
• Discuss how to develop procedures to avoid disputes over claims and counterclaims, while resisting unjustified claims
• Enhance understanding of basic negotiation techniques to be used when resolving disputes
• Provide an understanding of some of the main methods of dispute resolution involving third parties
• Develop an understanding of Traditional and Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques, including different ways of resolving disputes without recourse to courts or arbitration
• Provide strategies and tactics for negotiating during disputes
• Explain how to use contract provisions to reduce the risk of claims and disputes

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Training will involve a high level of interaction and delegate participation. The intention is that the trainer will explain issues using real examples, many from the trainer’s personal experience, but will then involve the delegates in discussion, using the information provided. There will also be role play sessions on negotiating, where delegates will work as teams to seek to agree disputes in realistic scenarios.

Delegates are encouraged to bring real problem examples with them, for discussion on a confidential basis, and to share their experience of particular issues in their company or industry. Time will be allowed for general discussions, and for one-to-one discussion with the trainer.

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