Day1

• About – Introductions; course objectives; course outline and course approach.

• Introduction – Typical project challenges in the Oil & Gas industry; understanding

project success and project failure; project management according to the PMBOK 5th

edition and ISO-21500;

• Managing Oil & gas projects – Oil & Gas sector issues, history and trends; stakeholders, their roles and expectations; organizational

structures and their influence on project performance; PMO„s; understanding

programs and portfolios

 rules, laws,

regulations and standards; understanding the Oil & Gas life cycle; International

Approach for Oil & Gas projects; conceptual design; preliminary design; detail design;

contractors„ plan; construction; integrated EPC; Practice of Using Project

Management Consultant (PMC);

• Initiating the project and requirement analysis– Creating the business case; project

economics; project selection; balancing risk in the portfolio; project benchmarking;

defining the project charter; identifying and analysing stakeholders; basic data

acquisition; international approach to engineering for refineries – FEL; basic data

acquisition; requirements definition; documenting and tracing requirements; refinery

configuration analysis & selection case study;

Day 2

• Managing quality – Understanding quality principles and processes; establish quality

standards and metrics; quality costs in oil and gas projects; quality assurance; quality

management tools;

• Managing procurement – Planning procurement; establishing the contract SOW;

understanding contract types; managing contract incentives; procurement

documents; contract terms and conditions; claims administration; administer

procurement; managing contract changes; managing contract performance;

• Managing human resources – Project organization; establishing responsibilities;

defining the organizational breakdown structure; managing team commitments;

conflict and motivation; management styles; managing intercultural teams;

• Managing communications– Identifying stakeholders; managing resistance;

managing stakeholders expectations; planning communication; bottom-up and topdown

communication; reporting on project and multi-project level;

Day 3

• Scope planning, scheduling and budgeting – Defining the management approach;

understanding score challenges; defining the scope; measure of scope definition;

measurement – Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI; Work Breakdown Structure;

Oil & Gas WBS best practices; defining the network diagram; estimating durations;

estimating resource consumption; critical path method; linear scheduling; critical

chain; optimizing and compressing the schedule; prioritizing time or resources;

schedule formats; estimating costs; top-down vs bottom-up estimating; estimating

under uncertainty; activity based costing; budgeting; “S” curve; budget composition;

working with reserves and undistributed budgets; working with control accounts and

planning packages; cost traceability and reconciliation; resolving issues between

project and portfolio constraints;

Day 4

• Most Popular Practices CII & IPA – Construction Industry Institute (CII) best practices;

Independent Value Analysis (IPA) Value Improving Practices – Technology Selection;

design to capacity; classes of plant quality; reliability simulation modelling; energy

optimization; waste minimization; customized standards and specifications; value

engineering; process simplification; constructability; predictive maintenance; 3D

modelling; risk management

• International Design Approach Using Building Information Modelling (BIM)- Benefits

of BIM; considerations and limitations; changes to the delivery process; key steps to

successful implementation; business implications;

• Closing the project – Contract termination; close procurement; project reviews;

present project results; review stakeholder analysis; challenges in project closure

; performing quality control;

Day 5

• Managing risk– Planning the approach; risk appetite, risk tolerance and risk

threshold; identifying risks through multiple techniques; formulating and

documenting risks; performing a qualitative risk analysis; determining individual and

overall risk scores; working with risk categorization; risk prioritization; performing a

Exam & course assessments 

• Controlling the project – Variance analysis; corrective and preventive actions;

elements of cost control; cost and schedule control systems criteria; project balance

technique; traditional control vs earned value management (EVM); EVM standard

metrics; EVM variance analysis and forecasts; measuring performance; EVM reporting;

challenges of EVM implementation; EVM and change management; EVM and

different cost elements; OTB and OTS; advanced EVM; change management; schedule

and budget reserve analysis; risk reassessment; risk audits; risk reporting; risk communication