Large oil and gas projects rarely fail at the wellhead — they fail months earlier, when readiness gaps go unnoticed until commissioning is already underway. The Readiness Governance and Assurance Reviews for Oil and Gas Projects Training Course, from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, within the Engineering, Maintenance and Operation Training Courses category and the Operations Readiness and Assurance Training Courses specialization, gives participants a governance-driven method for catching those gaps early — through structured assurance reviews across the full project lifecycle.

The programme covers how to set readiness criteria and milestones, run evidence-based assurance reviews, evaluate technical, operational, and organizational preparedness, and feed findings into governance and reporting structures that support confident startup and handover decisions. Cross-functional coordination between project, engineering, maintenance, and operations teams runs through every module.

• Understand Readiness Assurance and its governance role across the oil and gas project lifecycle.
• Build project readiness assessment strategies and set readiness criteria, milestones, and verification requirements.
• Plan and conduct structured, evidence-based assurance reviews.
• Evaluate operational, technical, organizational, and safety readiness, and identify gaps and risks.
• Strengthen commissioning, startup, and operational transition through readiness findings.
• Coordinate project, engineering, maintenance, and operations teams around assurance outcomes.
• Apply reporting and assurance governance practices to support management decisions.
• Support a safe, controlled transition from project execution to operations.

Target Audience

• Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Controls/Assurance Professionals
• Operations and Maintenance Managers
• Commissioning and Startup Personnel
• Operations Readiness Professionals
• Engineering and Technical Managers
• HSE and Process Safety Professionals
• Asset and Facility Managers
• Quality and Compliance Professionals
• Oil and Gas Operations Personnel involved in commissioning and transition

Module 1: When Readiness Gaps Surface Too Late — The Case for Assurance Governance

• Common causes of late-discovered readiness gaps in oil and gas projects
• Concepts and principles of Readiness Assurance
• Project lifecycle and readiness requirements
• Governance structures and accountability for readiness assurance

Module 2: Setting the Readiness Framework

• Developing a project readiness framework
• Readiness criteria, performance indicators, and milestones
• Organizational, operational, technical, and facility readiness dimensions
• Readiness planning and scheduling

Module 3: Assessing Readiness and Closing Gaps

• Readiness assessment methodologies
• Identifying readiness gaps and risk-based evaluation
• Gap analysis and corrective action planning
• Readiness tracking and verification

Module 4: Running Assurance Reviews

• Planning and conducting assurance reviews
• Review teams, roles, and evidence-based verification
• Review findings, recommendations, and follow-up
• Closure of assurance actions

Module 5: Readiness Across the Startup Lifecycle

• Operational readiness and transition preparation: teams, procedures, competency, maintenance and reliability, spare parts and logistics
• Commissioning, startup, and handover readiness: completion requirements, system turnover, documentation, and pre-startup verification

Module 6: Managing Risk, HSE, and Compliance Readiness

• Readiness-related risk identification
• HSE and process safety requirements
• Emergency response preparedness
• Regulatory and compliance readiness, and managing critical risks

Module 7: Reporting, Governance, and Continuous Assurance

• Readiness dashboards and reporting
• Management review and decision-making
• Tracking readiness performance and corrective actions
• Continuous improvement of assurance processes