• Overview
• Schedule of Programs
• BOSTON Oil and Gas Management Programs
  • Introduction
  • International Petroleum Business Program
  • International Gas Business Management Certificate Program
  • HR Processes and Change Management Program
  • Managing Major E&P Projects: Comparing Deepwater Petroleum with Unconventional Gas Development Opportunities
  • Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors
  • Financial Modeling and Petroleum Project Economics
  • International Petroleum Management Certificate Program
• PUBLIC Petroleum Business Workshops
  • Introduction
  • International Gas Business Workshop
  • Human Resources and Competency Management Workshop
• PRIVATE Petroleum Business Workshops
  • Introduction
  • International Gas Business Workshop
  • International Power Business Workshop
  • LNG Business Workshop
  • Gas Contracts Workshop
  • Negotiating Successful LNG Sales and Purchase Agreements
  • International Petroleum Business Workshop
  • Overview International Petroleum Business
  • Upstream Petroleum Agreements: Integration of Legal and Commercial Issues
  • Negotiating Successful Upstream Petroleum Agreements
  • Offshore E&P Project Development Workshop
  • Petrochemicals, Refining Gas Processing Workshop
  • Petroleum Project Economics and Risk Analysis
  • Human Resources and Competency Management Workshop
  • Effective Negotiating Skills Workshop
  • Senior Management Leadership Workshop
• Technical Programs
  • Introduction
  • Deepwater E&P Project Development Workshop
  • Blended Learning
• Instructional Programs Catalog PDF
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This challenging digital workshop allows participants to learn the commercial, technical, economic, and project management processes (ie. the Industry’s stage-gate process) required to explore for and develop a modern, deepwater offshore field. It covers all aspects of a classical upstream project management process, including seismic program design and analysis, exploration and appraisal drilling decisions, field development planning including resources estimation, well and reservoir performance predictions, uncertainty management, and project economics.

Except for a few modest lectures, all workshop communications and analysis tools (including well logs, reservoir simulation, risk analysis and financial models, and decision analysis) are made available to the learner in a digital framework. This unique instructional format includes engaging mentors who guide teams of participants step-by-step through the exploration and development of a deepwater offshore prospect in West Africa. Teams are asked to make sequential decisions to move an attractive exploration opportunity along a simulated stage-gate timeline, from the execution of the exploration agreement to the field development decision. Each team’s development decisions are captured, and the financial outcome of those decisions are presented over a 20-year production period.

NOTE: IHRDC recommends that those attending this program have some background in upstream petroleum technology.