COURSE DURATION: 4 days

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LEVEL: Skill (Intermediate)

 

COURSE OVERVIEW / INTRODUCTION

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• The changing landscape of the procurement function

• Best Practice  Procurement Attributes

• Overview of the Procurement process.

• Award Procedures

• Open Competitive Bidding

• Special and restricted methos of procurement

• Request for quotation and direct procurement

• Emergency procurement

• What are the rules on evaluation of tenders?

• Rules on conflict of interest

• New models of public procurement

• Eliminating bribery and corruption

• Open Data as a tool to tackle corruption

• Case study: Slovakia

• Main Challenges facing public procurement

• Case study: Chile

• Example of new model of public procurement

• Case study : Mexico

• Post Covid-19 Strategies

• Case Study : course tracker

• Procurement and the Procurement Cycle

• Strategic pillars of procurement

• Key stages of procurement

• The procurement process

• Direct, Indirect and Services procurement

• The petroleum logistic chain

• The oil & gas production chain

• Supply chain management

• Open contracting data standard ( OCDS)

• Available types of award procedures

• Rules on evaluation of tenders.

• Criteria used in supplier definition

• Qualification audits.

• Risk analysis

• The 3D negotiation concept

• The 5 pillars of strategic negotiation

• Multi propose behaviour exercise

• Guidelines to auditing oil & gas revenues

• Mitigating the risk of fraud and corruption

• Typical lifetime of an Oil & Gas extraction project

• Selecting audit criteria

• Staffing and training

• Planning phase of the audit

• Evidence sources and audit tests

• IT auditing

• Site visits

• Cybersecurity: how hackers can steal oil

• Upstream: critical process and systems

• Midstream

• Downstream

• What can happen?

• Three aspects of oil & gas cyber-security

• Burner management system and separation

• Metering

• Oil storage and tank inventory system

• Applications security in oil and gas

• Asset management and operational integrity

• Laboratory Information management

• Production accounting

• Security of connections between IT and OT

• Convergence of IT and OT

• Hacking SAP plant connectivity

• Oil & Gas attack vectors

• Metering Systems / IT Vulnerability

• The metering system

• Meter calibration

• Measurement guidelines for upstream

• Meter proving requirements

• The alarm log

• LNG meter

• Storage tanks and tank farms

• Marine loading and pipeline terminal

• The Scada system

• Information management system (IMS)

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INSTRUCTOR:

Antonio Abreu is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Antonio has over 40 years’ experience in oilfield production technology.

He performed extensive work in the areas cementing, stimulation, well integrity, CT operations, well testing, slickline operations, wireline operations, reservoir monitoring and optimization, gas lift operations, production logging, perforation operations, sand control, water and gas shut off, etc.

Started his career in April 1979 with Dowell Schlumberger in France. Further assignments included positions as Assistant to Technical and Marketing Manager (DS/Singapore), Offshore Manager / Cementing Services (DS/Libya), General Services Supervisor (DS/Algeria), Assistant Operations Manager/Aktau/Kazakhstan (Partex), Senior Petroleum Engineer (ADCO/Bu-Hasa Field) and Senior Petroleum Engineer (Dragon Oil Dubai and Turkmenistan).

Antonio is an experienced lecturer of many industry training courses in the areas of Petroleum and Production Engineering and was also assigned during several years as instructor at BTC (Dowell Schlumberger Training Centre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra/Bolivia). The last four years he was working as

Training Consultant in UAE. He is a Partner Founder of OGExperts.

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