Terry G. Rathwell 5 days

Who Should Attend
Oilfield or associated service personnel interested in improving their companies' health and safety performance and competitive position.

Contents
Developing Safety and Loss Management Systems: Development of an implementation strategy. Cause and Effects: Establishing the sequence of events and interrelationship between contributing factors; cause and effects of downgrading incidents; incident ratio study; costs of loss; incident versus accident perspective; Incident Investigation: Techniques, theory and process, incident analysis, near miss reporting and incident recall; risk assessment. Job Hazard Analysis: A systematic approach to ensuring that all associated risks are identified and controlled prior to commencing work. Communications: Indoctrination, pre-job safety meetings, group/committee meetings and individual performance reviews; Inspections: Eliminating hazardous conditions, and demonstrating management's commitment to safety. Workshops are included.

A.B. Lorenzoni 5 days

Who Should Attend
Individuals interested in developing new approaches, concepts and methods in this important area, and those interested in developing or expanding this area in their company.

Contents
Introduction to Cost Engineering; Estimate Types and Methods; Basics of Cost Control; Cost Engineer as Part of Project Management; Predicting Productivity/ Escalation/Contingency; Revamp Estimating; Data Collec-tion/Coding/Documentation; Computerized Estimating; Cost Monitoring During Conceptual Engineering; Cost Control During Detailed Design; Subcontract Administration and Control; Cost Control During Construction; Setting Up a Cost Engineering Organization; Qualifications of a Cost Engineer; Summary and General Discussion. Workshops and case studies included.

Don Boyd 2 - 5 days

Who Should Attend
Recent graduates and others in the industry unfamiliar with the accounting concepts peculiar to oil and gas exploration and production.

Contents
Definitions and explanations are based on required disclosures. The course explains the evaluation of exploration as "risk taking" accounting; addresses the nature of costs incurred from oil and gas to sales; discusses exploration and development costs dispositions under various scenarios; demonstrates appropriate allocation methods for shared costs and calculates depreciation, depletion and amortization under differing circumstances; provides explanations of currently required disclosure; discusses recent developments and pending regulations.

John J. Connor 5 days

Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for supervisors and specialists in personnel, training, human resources professionals, or anyone responsible for designing or implementing a manpower planning and development program.

Contents
Strategic Planning: elements of the strategic plan; five-phase planning exercise; obstacles. Organizational Design: types of organizations; objectives and process of organizational design. Manpower Planning System: objectives; structural elements; prerequisites; formats and examples. Job Descrip-tions: definition and format; qualification profile; sources of information. Task-and-Skill Analysis: uses; format and interview; training objectives. Training: training versus education; industrial training/ times to train; adult learning concepts; task certification; a "one-on-one" system. Recruit-ment and Selection: role in the manpower plan; considerations. Performance Apprai-sal: developmental appraisal; organizational rewards. Succession Planning: policy decisions; "comprehensive" systems versus "self-directed" systems; job ladders and career paths; individual development plans. Compre-hensive exercise. Participants will work on interrelated exercises and problems which require them to use real information from their own work situations.

Dr. Hugh Hay-Roe 3 days

Who Should Attend
Those who want to improve their business and technical writing skills.

Contents
Session I: Introduction to the Engineered Writing System. Examples, exercises, class practice, and homework cover: How to analyze varying interests to define an indisputable main point; How to use that main point to organize a message of any length; How to outline major documents; How to dictate easily and confidently -- in plain English; How to edit efficiently, applying clear writing techniques; How to minimize supervisory editing and rewriting.

Session II: (Note: this workshop is conducted on Day 2 and can be divided into morning and afternoon sessions of participants each to minimize time away from the job). Analysis (Step 1 of the Engineered Report Writing System) and an Essential Message (Step 2), prepared as homework on Day 1, are presented by each participant for a critique and class discussion of organization.

Session III: Participants display their completed documents for editing and discussion of organization, tone, grammar, punctuation, usage, sentence structure, layout, tables, etc. Participants also analyze poorly organized documents they have selected from the files.