Around three-quarters of international oil and gas projects today run through some form of joint venture between local and foreign companies — which makes the ability to structure, negotiate and govern a partnership just as important as any technical skill in the industry. This Arab British Fellowship Training Academy training course equips participants with the tools and knowledge needed to build successful alliances and joint projects, whether they are operating locally or internationally.

Joint ventures let companies combine complementary skill sets while giving a foreign partner a genuine geographic presence, but they also raise strategic, commercial, organisational and behavioural questions that need careful handling. The course works through these issues in detail, along with the partnership strategies and models most commonly used across the oil sector.

Who Should Attend

• Professionals working in the oil sector, including directors, executives and petroleum engineers.
• Staff responsible for facility security, environmental control and quality control in oil installations.
• Anyone who needs practical tools for planning, guiding and managing joint projects and partnerships.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Value the working relationships that make joint projects succeed, and develop the personal communication skills needed to manage them.
• Build an action plan for improving how joint-project offices operate inside their institution, and achieve exceptional results.
• Respond to different training scenarios in a way that reinforces learning.
• Explain how oil leaks occur, where they come from, and the obstacles that limit the effectiveness of environmental security methods.
• Apply the methods used to protect the environment, and by extension the wider community, from the effects of oil leaks.

Module 1: The Strategic Case for Joint Projects

• The role of joint projects in the gas and oil industry, and how new industry trends are shaping them.
• Different participation strategies, kinds of participation, and alliances versus joint projects.
• The value and importance of partnership relationships.

Module 2: Structuring and Negotiating the Deal

• The gas series for joint projects and the golden rules for making them succeed.
• Negotiating and preparing the main agreements and issues involved.
• Moving from signed contracts into day-to-day processes.

Module 3: Managing and Governing the Partnership

• Management, information and knowledge sharing across joint projects.
• Governance of joint projects and how partner and management cultural differences affect them.
• Integrating joint-project processes with performance management, and controlling projects, individuals and their behaviours.

Module 4: Environmental Security and Oil Leak Prevention

• The concept of environmental security, and the causes and resources of oil contamination.
• The potentials and foundations for the success of protection methods, illustrated with examples of real accidents.