Short Course Information

24–25 January

Asset Management - Tools, Process, and Practice

By Alok Jain, Asset Management Solutions, Incorporation.

1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) awarded for this 2-day course.

Description

Defining an asset as an exploration license, a discovery, or a producing oil or gas field including all the infrastructure, facilities, equipment, and services, asset management begins with acquisition of the exploration license and continues through exploration, appraisal, development, production, and abandonment. Successfully managing the asset with a view to maximising its value requires developing a plan, extraordinary attention to discipline quality and integration, a careful management of handovers in lifecycle phases, and a rigorous discipline to continuously improve by conducting well planned post audits.

Topics Covered

• Defining the contents of an “Asset Management Plan”
• Providing an asset management context by examining external factors such as fiscal terms, host government policies, regulatory requirements, partner’s and other stakeholders concerns, macroeconomic factors including prices of products and goods and services. Internal factors such as company policies, external commitments, resources, decision process and criteria, roles and responsibilities, authority guidelines, rewards, budgeting process and budget constraints will also be addressed.
• Describing asset management process, key decisions, decision criteria, and deliverables required for the decisions
• Multi-disciplinary team members roles, and information needed from each discipline in various stages of the asset life cycle
• Managing and monitoring discipline quality
• Overview of asset management tools – decision mapping, front end loading, decision and risk analysis, value of information, and value improving practices
• Explaining asset management process and tools with a field example
• Role of benchmarking, post auditing and continuous improvement
• Examples of mistakes that are frequently made in managing assets
  

Intended Audience

Reservoir engineers, drilling engineers, facilities engineers, project engineers, project managers, petroleum engineers, production operations engineers and managers, geologists, geophysicists, negotiators, commercial managers, asset managers, multi-disciplinary team leaders, and management.

About the Instructor

Alok Jain is a director of Asset Management Solutions, Incorporation which he formed recently after taking retirement from ConocoPhillips in late 2003. His company is involved in training and consulting services related to management of upstream assets. He served Conoco for over 22 years in technical and leadership roles with specific focus on asset management, project management, and reservoir engineering, in the U.S. and international locations like Nigeria, Norway, and Dubai and has a long history of creating extra-ordinary value for the company. Prior to Conoco he worked for 11 years in the industry in Canada, U.S., and Libya in economic evaluation, reservoir engineering and development, and as a reservoir simulation engineer with Gulf Oil Company offering training and expertise to the company’s international operations in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Canada.

He holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Panjab University, India, a post graduate diploma in Petroleum Refining and Petro-chemicals from Indian Institute of Petroleum, India, and a M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from University of Alberta in Canada.

With over 30 years of extensive domestic and international experience in many aspects of asset development and management, the instructor offers his life time experiences by describing the tools and process used in the development of an asset management plan using a real life example and concludes by highlighting mistakes that are frequently made and often lead to significant erosion in value and a vicious cycle of re-learning the same lessons over and over again.

Cost and Residency Information

This is non-residential Short Course. The Short Course registration fees include short course materials, coffee breaks and luncheons. The registration fees are as follows:

SPE Member: USD 720
Non-Member: USD 820

To register for the short course, please fill in the registration form and fax it to +971.4.366.4648 or email the form to formsdubai@spe.org. or alternatively register online.

 

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Short Course Venue:

Park Rotana Hotel
Abu Dhabi, UAE