The Mini-MBA for the Oil & Gas Industry

The Mini-MBA for the Oil & Gas Industry

Course overview

The global Oil and Gas industry presents a constant stream of challenges for all organisations working within it. The markets are undergoing major structural change, there is continual uncertainty and volatility of prices, indecision over integration and the role of the NOCs and the environmental issues brought to the forefront by the recent BP crisis. These are just some of the critical strategic issues facing managers in this transforming industry. If you don’t have the commercial awareness, solid understanding of the business drivers and the decision-making skills necessary to traverse the commercial maze successfully then neither yourself nor your business will survive.

This global Mini-MBA has been designed to deliver the core curriculum from an academic business school programme intertwined with solid, practical and current Oil and Gas Industry know-how. It will provide you with an invaluable understanding of the essentials of working within the industry, while developing your knowledge and capability as a key manager for your organisation.

The industry faces a challenging and competitive time for resources, opportunities, customers, qualified employees and for capital. In order to operate at the top of the field you need to have current industry know-how combined with exceptional business and management skills. This 5-day practical and intensive programme offers just that in a environment away from your organisation that will allow you the space and time to think strategically, and act commercially.

What this programme will do for you

By attending this programme you will:

SHARPEN your appreciation of the economics of oil and gas to understand the driving forces behind the industry

REINFORCE your decision-making capabilities through understanding the strategic, commercial and financial aspects of the industry

UNDERSTAND the financial impact that you can have on your organization and its profitability

DEVELOP an understanding of the importance of contracts in oil and gas projects

UNDERSTAND the key questions and areas you should be addressing as a manager who needs to be more commercially aware

ENHANCE your strategic leadership and people management techniques to allow you to leverage the most out of you, your team and your business partners

DEVELOP your understanding of the strategic issues for NOC’s and IOC’s

Is this programme for you?

This programme is suitable for all managers who wish to raise their commercial awareness of the global oil and gas industry

All managers in the industry who need to see how the whole ‘picture’ of upstream fits together.

Specialists; geologists, geophysicists, economists, finance, engineering – all those who have managerial roles and need to focus on the commercial success of their projects

Executives who have worked in other industries that need a good overview of the Oil and Gas industry

Managers who have worked in Downstream and are now working in Upstream

Bankers and financiers

Government representatives in Oil and Gas

Executives working in NOCs and IOCs

Oil and Gas industry context

This programme has been specifically designed for managers and executives working within the oil and gas industry who want to improve their general management capability and explore what the high achieving executives of the industry are thinking and doing.

Business cases, examples and exercises based on and built around real-life scenarios have been specifically developed for this programme. Participants will work in groups throughout the course applying key techniques learnt in Oil and Gas and, on occasion, comparing the results to real-life outcomes in companies using a unique case study developed solely for this programme.