The University of Aberdeen can tailor the Energy Industries Overview specific to your company's requirements. We offer a comprehensive Events Management service offering:
- event facilitation
- programme development
- sourcing appropriate speakers
- arranging company visits
- qualification recognition (credit/non-credit bearing)
- budgeting
- administration
Clients who have recently taken advantage of our tailor-made provision include:
- Concert
- Expro Group Integrated Services
- Scottish Enterprise Grampian
- Aberdeen City Council
- Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS Trust
- KPMG
- Scottish Development International
- Aberdeenshire Council
If you would like to discuss further, please contact cpdservices@abdn.ac.uk.
Some examples of previous sessions include:
Exploration and Production
Presenters from both the University of Aberdeen and within the industry
Following the acquisition of a licence to explore for oil and gas, oil companies undertake specific activities from seismic surveys, reservoir evaluation, exploration drilling and field appraisal prior to making further decisions to undertake development to produce these resouruces. If such investments are made, other activities may be undertaken from facilities construction and operation, reservoir management through to decommissioning. This session is designed to enable non-technical personnel to gain an understanding of these activites and therefore relate them back to their own roles in the industry.
Safety Regulations
Presented by speakers from the Health and Safety Executive
Folling the Piper Alpha disaster in 1987, the UK oil and gas industry embarked on a majoy initiative to improve the safety of offshore installations. These have been enforced by the development o fht eplatform Safety Case and associated regulations. This has resulted in world class standards of offshore safety, and continuing co-operation and standards, and the lessons learnt which will be of interest to any offshore operator seeking to improve safety standards.
Oil Economics
Presented by Professor Alex Kemp, University of Aberdeen
There is a range of Oil Economics topics which can be provided:
World Oil Market Trends
· Why has the price risen so much recently?
· The relative effects of changes in consumption and production.
· The respective roles of OPEC and non-OPEC supplies on world market.
· Is the present high oil price likely to be temporary?
· What are long run prospects? Will OPEC become more dominant?
· Explanations of recent world oil price behaviour.
Trends in Contractual Terms between Host Governments and International Oil Companies
· Recent trends in main terms particularly with respect to Production Sharing Contracts.
· Current thinking on Cost Recovery and Profit Oil Sharing terms.
· How does China compare with other countries?
· What are respective influences of (i) level of oil prices and (ii) geological prospectivity in determining how tough or lenient terms can be set.
· What differences should there be between terms for onshore and offshore?
· What differences should there be between terms for oil compared to gas?
· How should field decommissioning be treated in a Production Sharing Contract?
Natural Gas Contracts and Related Issues
· Main forms of contracts:
- Field depletion take-or-pay contract. Extent of take-or-pay?
- Volume contract. Length of contract? Range of daily production (Load factor).
· Price formulae in contract.
- Base price and indexation.
- Indexation in relation to cost trends, inflation, prices of competing fuels.
· Respective positions of gas producer and gas purchaser. Their different risk positions.
· Gas infrastructure (pipelines)
- Negotiated or regulated tariffs?
- If regulated what rate of return?
- Use or pay clause?
Modelling the Future of a Petroleum Province – the UK Continental Shelf
· Historical trends in success rates, size of discoveries, and developments.
· Modelling future levels of production, investment using historic data and financial modelling.
· The value to management of reliable projections.
Project Management Essentials
Traditional project management foccusses on the tools and techniques that are utilised in order to deliver projects on time, to the appropriate quality and within budget. However, this approach, is under challenge from a number of directions which argue that the traditional measures of project success are not applicable in today's business environment. This presentation will explore these challenges to traditional project management and will outline new and emergent techniques including; lean project management, goal directed project management and stakeholder focussed project management.