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Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Professionals Management Course

Dates Venues Register
06/09/2026 - 10/09/2026 DUBAI

Introduction

Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Professionals Management Course

 

Course Objectives:

At the end of this essential oil and gas management skills course, the participants will be able to:

  • Build knowledge as to the nature and challenges facing the oil and gas industry.
  • Understand the key players and commercial drivers.
  • Examine the industry structure with specific emphasis on the complete value chain.
  • Understand framing agreements, including joint ventures and production-sharing contracts.
  • Examine the importance of effective project planning and execution, including risk management and earned value management analysis.

 

Targeted:

  • Oil and Gas Professionals.
  • Senior and Middle Managers.
  • Accountants and Finance Professionals are responsible for financial accounting, treasury, internal audit, budget preparation, and management reporting.
  • HR, Contracting and Procurement, and IT Professionals.
  • Line managers with strategic planning and operational budgeting responsibility.
  • New entrants are seeking the oil and gas industry.
  • Professional Advisers and Business Consultants.

 

Course Content:

Unit 1: The Oil and Gas Industry Commercial Drivers - Overview:

  • Understand the nature of the oil and gas industry.
  • Upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
  • Learn about exploration, evaluation production, and reserve estimates.
  • Structures and business models - Lifting and production costs.
  • Understand strategic challenges and opportunities facing the industry's key players.

Unit 2: Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Arrangements:

  • IOC's and NOC's fiscal agreements and contracting strategies for the oil and gas industries.
  • Reward structures and options.
  • Understand the critical role of oil and gas project management training in enhancing industry efficiency.
  • Front-end loading - Hot spots and challenges.
  • Capital project planning and execution.
  • Implement a practical project control framework.

Unit 3: Oil and Gas Project Economics, Cost and Estimation:

  • Evaluate project opportunities.
  • Understand the cash-flow analysis and time value of money.
  • Learn about crucial profitability indicators NPV, IRR, UTC, and Payback.
  • Calculate a discounted cash flow.
  • What is a cost estimate, and what factors influence an estimate?
  • Earn value management analysis for measuring project performance and reporting.

Unit 4: Risk Management Application:

  • What is risk management, and why is it essential?
  • Risk management as applied to capital projects.
  • Specify objectives and identify project uncertainties.
  • Technical and non-technical risks.
  • Risk register review and analysis.
  • Stakeholder identification and mapping.

Unit 5: Oil and Gas Capstone:

  • Case study to understand The shale gas revolution in the United States.
  • Impact of shale gas on the world oil and gas stage.
  • Understand the geopolitics of oil and gas pricing.

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