Introduction
Local Content is the development of local skills, oil and gas technology transfer, and use of local manpower and local manufacturing. This Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry training course will discuss the business benefits of developing the primary components of a local content strategy, including building local workforce and supplier capacity, integrating local content with business plans and successfully monitoring the programs. Whether you are developing your policy now or want to scale up your local content models, you will get practical insight into what works best for your region.
This training course will equip you with the understanding and delivering local content in relation to oil and gas projects. It aims at assisting you to build local workforce and supplier capacity, and implementing and sustaining successful local content strategic plans. Furthermore, the training will offer oil and gas business practical advice on how they can realise the potential value of local content; and to offer all stakeholders suggestions on ways to help create shared value through local content development.
This Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry training course will highlight:
- Key-factors in the local content provisions
- Exploring a number of themes, including skills development programs and local content performance management
- Identify and assess the impact of local content provisions over the execution of an oil field development project
- Participate in the elaboration of a local content management plan
- Negotiation of local content provisions applicable to a given contractual context
Course Objectives:
This training course will enhance your ability to identify, determine and manage local content strategies in the oil and gas business. It will boost your skills in mastering the implications of local content provisions over the execution of an oil field development project, mainly in terms of procurement and personnel management.
At the end of this Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry training course, you will learn to:
- Identify the key-factors in the local content provisions applicable to a given contractual context, and assess their impact over the execution of an oil field development project
- Participate in the development and implementing of local content strategy and execution of a local content management plan, take part in a procurement contract tendering, negotiation and follow-up, take into account the impacts of local provisions on workforce management
- Manage local content regulations and requirements in key oil and gas producing nations around the world
- Understand the latest updates to local content calculation methodology and its impact to your projects and planning
- Participate in the elaboration of a local content management plan
- Learn how to significantly improve your management of local content internally and across your supplier base
Who Should Attend?
This training course is aimed at managers from the Oil & Gas sector (National Oil Companies {NOCs}, regulation authorities, ministries) or from International Oil Companies (IOCs) having to deal or operate under a local content environment and contractual provisions.
This Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Professionals, Technologists, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers engaged in the refinery operation and oil production/exploration activities, who have a considerable experience and who are required to understand and discuss issues related to their processes.
- Process and Process Control Engineering, Technologists, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Human Resource Management: Controllers, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers
- Oil Account Management: Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Operational Planning, Refinery Scheduling Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Corrosion and Inspection Engineering: Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Oil and Gas Operation (Upstream/Downstream): Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Mechanical, Rotating and Maintenance Planning: Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Health, Safety and Environment (HSE): Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Instrument Maintenance: Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Project Management: Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Commercial, Financial, Insurance and Legal Management: Controllers, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers engaged in the refinery operation and oil production/exploration activities.
- IT, Data and Document Management: Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Business, sales, technical, and scientific personnel with limited or no broad refinery operating and oil production/exploration experience, along with technical sales personnel.
- Those involved in selling equipment or supplies to the refinery operations and oil production/ exploration industry.
- Those involved with economic evaluations of refinery operations and oil production/ exploration will benefit from this training course.
- Those involved in marketing, selling refined, final export products will benefit from this training course.
Course Outline
Introduction to Local Content in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Oil and Gas Industry: Setting The Scene
- What is Local Content?
- Understanding the Context and Current Overview of Major Themes in Local Content Laws and Regulation
- Company Perspectives
- The Role of International Oil Companies
- The Role of National Oil Companies
Local Content In Procurements And Contracts
- Understanding the Underlying Concepts Local Content Policy Provisions Applicable in the Oil & Gas Business
- How to Make Quick Wins In: Procurement of Goods and Services from Local Suppliers, Employment and Development of Local Workforce, Knowledge and Technology Transfer
- Building and Developing Human Capacity
- Developing Oil and Gas Industry Capacity
- Building A Globally Competitive Supplier Base: Focusing On Community Participation In The Supply Chain
- Procurement And Contract Strategy
Developing A Local Content Plan
- How to Approach A National Content Plan
- Content Implementation
- Implementation, Measurement And Monitoring Of Local Content
- Group Session: Local Content Strategy From A Company Perspective
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Local Content Agenda, Targets, Measures and Mechanisms to Meet Local Content Requirements, Monitor and Implement Targets Performance of Local Content
Local Content Management Plan (LCMP)
- Opportunities Driving Forces, Issues, Obstacles in Nationalizing Host Countries Workforce, Challenges and their Effective Solutions of Localization of Workforce and Suppliers for the Satisfaction of Local Content Requirements
- Maximization of the Commercial Success of Projects with Local Content Quick Wins
- Quick Wins in Supplier Development and Training of National Suppliers and Workforce
- Challenges and Opportunities
- Managing Expectations
- Key Factors in Developing and Implementing a Local Content Strategy
- Developing Local Content Management Plan (LCMP)
- Incorporating Local Content in a Contractual Strategy
- Key-factor and Associated Risks
- Setting-up and Management of a LCMP
Negotiation and Drafting of Local Content Provisions
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Ways to Measure Local Content
- The Balanced Scorecard and other Tools in Local Content
- Consequences of Local Content Provisions on the Execution of a Procurement Contract
- Contractual Strategy including Impact on Oil and Gas Contracts
- Tendering Process
- Recommendation and Awarding
- Execution – Control
- Impact of Local Content Provisions on Workforce Management
- Employment, Training and Education