Project Management

Business Context

The effort to develop a complex commercial opportunity in the oil and gas industry is typically organized as a project that needs to be skillfully managed to achieve the objectives agreed with the sponsor. This course will help participants develop this skill and prepare them for a role as project manager.

Who Should Attend

E&P staff with 3-5 years experience as project engineer with the ambition to becoming a project manager. 

What You Will Learn

Course Content

~~ Project management basics

• Project complexity and challenge
• Phases of a project
• Determinant of project success
• The importance of project management

~~ Project scope management

• Project planning
• Statement of work (SOW)
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)

        Leadership and project manager

• Project team building
• Project schedule management
• Project cost estimation and budgeting
• Project execution, control and evaluation
• Best practice and lessons learned
• Why do some projects fail?
• Project closeout and termination

What You Will Know After Attending 

Learning Objectives & Methods:

This course will use a blend of lectures, dialogue and experience sharing, handout material and references to further reading or self study as well as exercises in which participants will have the opportunity to practice aspects of the project management role in a classroom situation. At the end of the event, the participants will be able to develop a Project Execution Plan with their team and have the confidence to start implementing the plan

Course Venue

Grand, yet inviting, The Ritz-Carlton, Doha is an exceptional Qatar hotel that combines extravagant elegance with the warmth of a traditional Arabian welcome.

The very definition of an opulent Middle Eastern paradise, and an idyllic setting for business or leisure travelers alike, The Ritz-Carlton, Doha hotel's accommodations feature:

• 374 well-appointed guestrooms, each with sea or golf course views

• 61 suites and 42 club rooms with free internet connection

• Eight exceptional restaurants and bars featuring fine local and international cuisine

• A world-class Spa and modern fitness center

• Indoor and outdoor swimming pools

• Two ballrooms, seven meeting rooms and a fully equipped business center

• A 235-slip marina with club house for boats and 8 slip marina for jet-ski

About the Presenter

EMMANUEL S. ENEYO is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA.  He has over 20 years of combined industrial work and consulting experiences with such companies as Bechtel Power Corporation, Rockwell International, Rohr Industries, Roho International, American Steel Foundries, Sierra International, The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria Limited, to name a few.  

As an international engineering management consultant, his areas of expertise include design of integrated production systems, supply chain management, project management, lean six-sigma production, methods engineering and work measurement, engineering economic analysis, development of knowledge-based expert systems, intelligent modeling of data mining applications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a member of Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering Honor Society of America), Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society of America), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Professor Eneyo is also a licensed professional engineer in the State of Illinois, USA and a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (MNSE). 

About Oil & Gas Academy

Our vision is to make world-class continuing education available to all petroleum professionals at an affordable price.

Our Petroleum Schools held in different parts of the world cover a wide variety of technical and management courses in E&P taught by a truly international faculty consisting of highly qualified and experienced Learning Consultants.