International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Operation for Non-Technical Staff: Mineral Rights, Upstream Oil and Gas Mineral Lease Contracts, Exploration, Drilling, Production and Sale

Programme Outline:


Oil and Gas Operation for Non-Technical Staff – Incorporating Oil and Gas Safety

Oil and Gas Conceptual and Contextual Exploration

Introducing the Oil Subsectors

• Horizontal, Vertical and Full Integration activities
• Downstream Activities
• Exploring Vertical Integration in Relation to the Following Potentially Advantages:
• Addressing Vertical Integration, with respect to the following potential disadvantages
• Factors favouring horizontal integration
• Other factors relevant to Oil and Gas Production

Oil and Gas Safety

• HSE Offshore Statistics
• Oil and Gas Industry Safety Regimes/ Institutions and Their Safety Regulation and Monitoring System
• Safety Relief Valves and Rupture Discs
• Pressure Safety Valves (PSV), Operation and Testing
• Gaswell blowouts
• Hydrogen Sulfide
• Hydrogen Sulfide Principles
• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Safety for Oil and Gas
• Rig Accidents
• Actinia Oil Rig Blowout
• Blow-Out preventers – (BOP)
• New Generation of BOPs
• Malfunctioning of BOPs
• Dealing with Blowouts
• Analysing the BP Oil Disaster

Deepwater Drilling and Well Control

Contents, Concepts and

DEEPWATER

• Exploring the Deepwater
• Identifying the Prospect
• Drilling a Wildcat
• Deepwater Plays in Context
• Geology the Shelf vs; the Deepwater
• Drilling and Completing Wells
• The Well Plan
• Rig Selection
• Drilling
• Completing the Well
• Special Problems
• Development Systems
• Development Systems Choices
• Choosing Development Systems
• Fixed Structures
• The Concrete Flatform
• The Compliant Tower
• Installing Platforms
• Installing Concrete Gravity Platform
• Setting the Pipeline Riser
• Floating Production Systems
• Tension Leg Platforms TLP
• Monocolumn TLP
• Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit(FPSO)
• Floating, Drilling, Production, Storage Offloading Unit (FDPSO)
• Floating Production Storage Vessel (FPS)
• Spars
• Mooring Spreads
• Subsea Systems
• Wells
• Manifold And Sleds
• Flowline Jumpers and Gathering
• Umbilicals and Flying Leads
• Control Systems
• Flow Assurance
• System Architecture and Installation
• ROVS
• Topsides
• Oil Treatment
• Water Treatment
• Gas Treatment
• Safety Systems
• Auxiliary Systems
• Pipelines Flowlines and Risers
• The Boon and Bane of Buoyancy
• Laying Pipe
• Bottom Conditions
• Risers
• Pipeline System Operations
• Technology and Third Wave

WELL CONTROL

Equipment in Well Control Operations

• Pressure, Erosion, Corrosion and Vibration
• Threaded Connections
• The Stack
• The Choke Line
• The Choke Manifold
• The Panic Line
• The Separator
• The Kill Line
• The Stabbing Valve

Classic Pressure Control Procedures While Drilling

• Causes of Well Kicks and Blowouts
• Indications of a Well Kick
• Shut-In Procedure
• Circulating Out The Influx

Pressure Control Procedures While Tripping

• Causes of Kicks While Tripping
• Shut-In Procedure

Special Conditions, Problems and Procedures in Well Control

• Significance of Surface Pressures
• Safety Factors in Classical Pressure Control Procedures
• Circulating a Kick Off Bottom
• Classical Procedures - Plugged Nozzle Effect
• Classical Procedures – Drill String Washout Effect
• Determination of Shut-In Drill Pipe Pressures
• Determination of the Type of Fluid That Entered the Wellbore
• Frictional Pressure Losses
• Annulus Pressure Profiles With Classical Procedures
• Constant Casing Pressure, Constant Drill Pipe Pressure and Modification of the Wait and Weight Method
• The Low Choke Pressure Method
• Reverse the Bubble Out Through the Drill Pipe
• The Overkill Wait and Weight Method
• Slim Hole Drilling - Continuous Coring Considerations
• Stripping With Influx Migration
• Oil-Base Mud in Pressure and Well Control Operations
• Floating Drilling and Subsea Operation Considerations

Fluid Dynamics in Well Control

• Kill-Fluid Bullheading
• Kill-Fluid Lubrication - Volumetric Kill Procedure
• Dynamic Kill Operations
• The Momentum Kill

DEEPWATER DRILLING EQUIPMENT AND OPERATIONS

Selection of Drilling Practices

• Introduction
• Surface Equipment
• When And How To Close The Well
• Gas-Cut Mud
• The Closed Well
• Kick Control Procedures
• Maximum Casting Pressure
• Maximum Borehole Pressure

Fishing Operations and Equipment

• Causes and Prevention
• Pipe Recovery And Free Point
• Parting The Pipe
• Jars, Bumper Subs And Intensifiers
• Attachment Devices
• Fishing For Junk
• Abandonment
• Wirelines

Casing and Casing String Design

• Types of Casing
• Casing Data
• Combination Casing Strings
• Running and Pulling Casing

Well Cementing

• Introduction
• Chemistry of Cements
• Cementing Principles
• Standardization and Properties of Cements
• Properties of Cement Slurry and Set Cement
• Cement Additives
• Primary Cementing
• Secondary Cementing

Tubing and Tubing String Design

• API Physical Property Specifications
• Running and Pulling Tubing
• Preparation and Inspection Before Running
• Packers

WELL CONTROL

Special Services in Well Control

• Snubbing
• Fire Fighting and Capping
• Freezing
• Hot Tapping
• Jet Cutting

Relief Well Design and Operations

• History
• Reliability of Proximity Logging
• Reliability of Commercial Wellbore Survey Instruments
• Subsurface Distance Between Relief Well and Blowout
• Surface Distance Between Relief Well and Blowout
• Summary
• Relief Well Plan Overview

The Underground Blowout

• Casing Less Than 4000 Feet
• Pipe Below 4000 Feet
• Charged Intervals - Close Order Seismic - Vent Wells
• Shear Rams
• Cement and Barite Plugs

Case Study: The E.N. Ross No.2

• Analysis of the Blowout
• Observations and Conclusions

Contingency Planning

The Al-Awda Project: The Oil Fires of Kuwait

Overview of the Project

The Problems

Control Procedures

Extinguishing the Fires

Cutting

Statistics

• Safety

International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Investment: Joint Ventures, Mergers, Acquisitions, Strategic and Financial Asset Management

Contents, Concepts and Issues

The Oil and Gas Industry

• Oil and Gas Industry: An Overview
• Understanding Oil and Gas Reserves
• Analysing Oil and Gas in the Global Economy
• Tracking the Oil and Gas Industry Value Chain
• Midstream: Trading and Transportation
• Downstream: Oil Refining and Marketing
• Business Strategy Fundamentals
• Evolution of the Industry
• Innovation and Technology
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Industry Substitutes and Alternative Fuels
• The Future of the Global Oil and Gas Industry

Concepts of Nationalism, National Oil Companies and the Curse of Oil

• The Role and Value of Oil and Gas
• Government and Corporate Interest
• Evolution of the National Oil Companies (NOCs)
• The NOC/IOC Relationship
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• The Curse of Oil
• Domestic Politics of Oil and Gas

Developing Oil and Gas Projects

• Development Project Opportunities
• Joint Development
• Project Financial Analysis
• Steps in Project Execution
• Handling Contractor Relationships
• Dealing with Problems in Project Development

Importance of Cost Management in the Production of Oil and Gas

• Defining Costs in the Upstream
• Performance and Competitive Advantage
• Oil Economics
• Strategic Cost Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Field Reinvestment and Renewal
• Managing Contractor Supply Chain
• Partnership Management
• Managing Political Risk
• Innovation and Technology

Creating Fiscal Regimes

• Development Agreements
• Petroleum Fiscal Regimes
• Added Contractual Features
• Top-Line Risks
• PSA Evolution
• Fiscal Regime
• Government and Policy Change

Financing and Financial Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry

• Business Financing
• Capital Sourcing For the Oil and Gas Industry
• E&P Firms and Downstream Oil and Gas
• Ruminations on Valuation

Natural Gas

• Chemistry and Form of Natural Gas
• Natural Gas Reserves, Fields and Production
• Natural Gas Use and Markets
• Prices, Trading and Markets

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

• The Integrated LNG Project
• LNG Markets and Pricing
• LNG Case Study
• Gas to Liquids (GTL)

Analysing the Market for the Crude Oil

• The Basics of Crude Oil
• Crude Oil Price
• Crude Oil Prices and Transactions

Transportation in the Oil and Gas Industry

• Fundamentals of Transportation
• Pipelines
• Oil Tankers
• Downstream Transportation

The Petroleum Refinery Process

• Global Refining
• The Refining Process
• The Refinery Product Mix
• Refining Margins and Profitability

Undertaking the Sales and Marketing of Petroleum Products

• Motor Fuel
• Aviation Fuel
• Lubricants
• Fuel Oils for Heating and Power Generation
• Asphalt and Propane

Petrochemicals

• Chemical Industry Overview
• Petrochemical Production
• Commodity and Specialty Chemicals
• Industry Structure
• Industry Profitability

The Future of the Global Oil and Gas Industry

• The Products
• The Markets
• The Players and Their Strategies
• The Future of Oil and Gas Firms
• Power of National Companies

Oil and Gas Prices and Forward Contracts: Understanding Petroleum –

Oil and Gas – Market Rates, Hedging and Risks

Contents, Concepts and Issu

Overview of the World Crude Oil

The Market Events from 2008 to 2011

• World Energy Policy
• The Financial Crisis and the Oil Market
• Fundamentals vs. Financial Speculation
• Demand/Supply of Gasoline and Gasoil
• WTI – Brent Differential

Evolution of the Price of Crude Oil from the 1960s up to 1999

• The Oil Monopoly and the Two Crises in the 1970s
• The Gradual Disappearance of OPEC
• The Price War
• From the Introduction of Brent as an International Benchmark to the Clean Air Act
• The Suicide of OPEC
• The Start of the Free Market
• The Consequences of the Environmental Turnaround

Changes in the Market for Automotive Fuels

• Evolution of Environmental Demand
• Gasoline and its Components
• Reforming
• Cracking
• Alkylation
• Isomerisation
• Refiners Walk the Tightrope
• The Fiscal Policy of the Industrialized Countries Regarding Fuels

Understanding the World Oil Flow

• Transformations in the Downstream
• World Supply Structure

The Classical Model of the International Oil Market

The Short-term Model of the International Oil Market

Analysing the Brent Market

• The Sale and Purchase Contract
• The Forward Market for Brent (15 day Brent Contract)
• The IPE Brent Market
• The Divorce between Oil Price and Oil

Principal Uses of the Forward and Futures Markets

• Tax Spinning
• Benchmarking
• Hedging the Price Risks
• Speculations on Operational Flexibilities at Loading
• Market Structure: Contango and Backwardation
• Procedures at the Loading Terminals

Dealing with the Problems of the Brent Forward Market

The European Refinery Crisis

Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Petroleum –

Oil and Gas – Industry Module 2

Contents, Concepts and Issu

Employee Flexibility and Workforce Flexibility: Alternative patterns of Work and the Increase in the Non-Standard Contracts

• The Different Forms of Worker Flexibility within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Elements of Workforce Flexibility
• Numerical Flexibility
• Functional Flexibility within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Temporal Flexibility within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Financial Flexibility within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Geographical Flexibility within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Hard and Soft HRM within the Oil and Gas Industry
• The Flexibility Debate within the Oil and Gas Industry:
• The Concept of the ‘Flexible Firm’ within the Oil and Gas Industry
• The Strategic Use of Flexible Workers within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Flexibility Strategies for Economic Development within the Oil and Gas Industry

Human Resource and Performance Management

• Assessing the Nature and Causes of Performance Problems:
• Performance Management in Oil and Gas Operation
• Managing Poor Performance within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Managing Absence within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Dealing With Harassment within the Oil and Gas Industry
• The Effective Management of Retirement, Redundancy, Dismissal and Voluntary Turnover within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Evaluating the Mechanisms Available For Preventing or Alleviating Poor Performance within the Oil and Gas Industry

Employee Resourcing: Recruitment And Selection: A Strategic Standpoint

• Staff Turnover and Negative and Positive Impact On the Organisation;
• Levels of Individual Commitment of Potential and New Recruits
• Moral Commitment
• Remunerative Commitment
• Calculative Commitment
• Recruitment and Selection as a Resourcing Activity
• Training, Education, Development as Facilities for New Recruits
• The Importance of Human Resource Forecasts
• Methods of Forecasting Human Resource Needs of the Organisation
• Strategic Operational Review’ (SOR) As Prerequisite For Human Resource Forecasting
• The Legal Bases of Recruitment and Selection
• Importance of Human Resource Audit
• Conducting Human Resource Audit
• Periodic and Exit Interviews
• Systematic Recruitment and Selection Process
• Conducting Job Analysis
• Designing Job Description
• Designing Personnel Specification
• Market Targeting
• Designing and Placing Advertisement
• Weighting and Using Candidate Assessment Form (CAF)
• Conducting Interviews
• Non-Conventional Personnel Selection
• The Value of Staff Induction
• Organising an Induction Programme
• Running an Induction Programme
• Short-Listing Candidates
• Conducting Interviews
• The Value of and Problems of E-Recruitment
• The Different Types and Levels of E-Recruitment
• Conducting Periodic Interviews
• Conducting Exit Interviews
• Job Design and the Law

Talent Management and Intellectual Capital within the Oil and Gas Industry

• Talent Management in Oil and Gas, As an ‘Expert Sector’
• Creating Most Desirable Employer Status in Oil and Gas Operation
• Training and Development Strategy in Oil and Gas Industry
• Knowledge Management in Oil and Gas Industry
• Protecting Intellectual Property in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Industrial Espionage in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Managing Knowledge Transfer in Oil and Gas Industry
• Understanding and Managing Expatriate Workforce
• Creating a Learning Organisation within the Oil and Gas Industry
• Synthesizing Knowledge in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Enhancing Worker Motivation for Continued Moral Commitment to the Organisation
• Technological Knowledge Transfer in Oil and Gas Industry
• Employee Development in the Oil and Gas Industry