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Petroleum Project and Program Management Essentials - P3ME

Discipline: Project Management
Level: Foundation
Instructors who teach this course:


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  • Designed For
  • You will learn
  • Course Content
Petroleum companies often use projects to develop the skills of early career project professionals. This course covers the essential skills of petroleum project and program management and provides an opportunity to apply those skills to your project. You will be able to utilize fit-for-purpose prioritization techniques and control tools to facilitate successful outcomes. The specific training received in planning, scheduling and risk management will help the early career professional make the best decisions possible. Participants will learn how the project management, HSE, engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement/supply chain, and transportation disciplines relate to one another and what tools are available to ensure interfaces among key stakeholders are managed. The course is taught using a combination of instruction, facilitated discussion, and team exercises using real-world examples related to facilities, drilling and maintenance. The exercises will include both individual and group activities that will provide each participant with a hands-on application of the principles and practices discussed throughout the course.
Project managers and engineers, facility engineers, operations and maintenance representatives, schedulers, cost controllers, and purchasing personnel who plan, manage, or participate on multi-discipline teams. This course also addresses the essential requirements associated with managing programs whose timely completion is essential to the success of regional operations.
How To:
  • Apply essential work management techniques to a variety of tasks
  • Identify key constraints and interfaces and develop action plans to address them
  • Develop charters, scopes of work, schedules and cost estimates
  • Prioritize the work to best meet evolving operations needs
  • Prepare petroleum project execution plans and procedures
  • Utilize progress measurement and control techniques
  • Use dashboards to track progress of larger programs and identify areas that need attention
  • The petroleum project delivery system
  • Organization and resources
  • Project coordination
  • The execution plan
  • HSE and risk management
  • Procurement and contracting
  • Cost management
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Progress measurement
  • Program management essentials
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Petroleum Project and Program Management Essentials - P3ME
Discipline: Project Management
Level: Foundation
Duration: 3 days
Instructor(s): Ken Lunsford
Petroleum companies often use projects to develop the skills of early career project professionals. This course covers the essential skills of petroleum project and program management and provides an opportunity to apply those skills to your project. You will be able to utilize fit-for-purpose prioritization techniques and control tools to facilitate successful outcomes. The specific training received in planning, scheduling and risk management will help the early career professional make the best decisions possible. Participants will learn how the project management, HSE, engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement/supply chain, and transportation disciplines relate to one another and what tools are available to ensure interfaces among key stakeholders are managed. The course is taught using a combination of instruction, facilitated discussion, and team exercises using real-world examples related to facilities, drilling and maintenance. The exercises will include both individual and group activities that will provide each participant with a hands-on application of the principles and practices discussed throughout the course.
Designed For:
Project managers and engineers, facility engineers, operations and maintenance representatives, schedulers, cost controllers, and purchasing personnel who plan, manage, or participate on multi-discipline teams. This course also addresses the essential requirements associated with managing programs whose timely completion is essential to the success of regional operations.
You Will Learn:
How To:
  • Apply essential work management techniques to a variety of tasks
  • Identify key constraints and interfaces and develop action plans to address them
  • Develop charters, scopes of work, schedules and cost estimates
  • Prioritize the work to best meet evolving operations needs
  • Prepare petroleum project execution plans and procedures
  • Utilize progress measurement and control techniques
  • Use dashboards to track progress of larger programs and identify areas that need attention
Course Content:
  • The petroleum project delivery system
  • Organization and resources
  • Project coordination
  • The execution plan
  • HSE and risk management
  • Procurement and contracting
  • Cost management
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Progress measurement
  • Program management essentials
Instructors:

MR. KEN LUNSFORD is the Project Management Discipline Manager for PetroSkills. He has more than 38 years' experience in engineering and management of oil, gas, chemicals and plastics development. During his 32 years with ConocoPhillips, he led development teams on projects in the United States, Norway, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. His diverse engineering and project management background includes sour gas plants, oil, gas and petrochemical pipelines, engineered plastics processes and materials handling, batch sulfur chemical processes, liquefied natural gas projects and pilot plants. Additionally, he was corporate project controls manager for Phillips Petroleum with responsibility for developing business processes and training for asset development, value improving practices, project controls, contracting strategy, risk management, reviews and assists and joint venture non-operated project assurance. He received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.


In-House Course Presentations
All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com

Public Course Presentations
How to contact PetroSkills:
1-800-821-5933 toll-free in North America or
Telephone 1-918-828-2500
Facsimile 1-918-828-2580
E-Mail registrations@petroskills.com
Internet www.petroskills.com
Address P.O. Box 35448, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0448, U.S.A