CATEGORY: Finance Courses

Strategic Governance For Joint Ventures, Cost Management For Upstream International Oil and Gas Development

Course Access: Lifetime
Course Overview

Course Length: 5 Days 

Course
Dates:TBA

Course Venue:TBA

Course
Description:

The investors in the oil and gas
industry are now, more than ever, in direct need to address all those issues
that tend to becloud timely realization of petroleum projects (Greenfields or
Brownfields) to ensure a return on their investments. A central part of this is
to understand how an oil and gas joint venture works, in an environment of
constrained funding, year-on- year. The course will cover traditional business
arrangements and also Incorporated JV (IJV) arrangement, other partnership
types and strategic alliances.

There is no gainsaying the fact that
major oil and gas projects generally require certain skill sets, large scale
coordination, business acumen and the right experience in similar or larger
projects. Often, parties interested in each project will come together to form
a joint project team with the requisite skills and technical expertise, and
share costs, risks and financial capabilities, which they may not otherwise be
able to offer separately. The questions then arise: what are your joint venture
structure options and what are the important considerations for parties
entering a joint venture?

This course analyzes and exposes
participants to some critical issues which feature in joint ventures and
production sharing agreements, including funding, decision making, monetization of the resource, cash calls and dispute management. It also defines
IJV and UJV, what needs to be understood while transitioning from a UJV
to an IJV: options, performance requirements, challenges, risks, opportunities
and some real life key learnings.

It will be an ideal forum where
investors, business leadership, portfolio/program and project leadership,
analysts, strategists, scientists and other decision makers review, explore and 
comprehend the fundamentals, the mechanics, the risks and benefits
of the various business arrangements.

Who Should Attend:

Whether you are an operations manager, strategist, planner, project
engineer/manager, discipline engineer, scientists, finance analyst, or an
economist, this program will strengthen and sharpen your joint venturing
knowledge, contract development and control and petroleum investment management
services skills.

 Course Outline

Day
1: Joint Venturing in General

·        
Pre-course assessment

·        
The What, The How, The Why

·        
JV comparison learnings

·        
Production Sharing
Agreement

·        
Case Studies

 Day 2:
Structuring JV and PSC Arrangements

·        
Formation and governance

·        
Liability issues per JV type

·        
The Significance of
flexibility

·        
Joint costs and profits sharing

·        
Tax implications,
and

·        
Key ramifications

·        
Case Studies

Day 3: Key Characteristics of an
IJV

·        
General   &    Transition    elements (UJV-IJV)

·        
Formation

·        
Liability

·        
Flexibility

·        
Profits & Costs

·        
Tax

·        
Case Studies

Day 4: Key Characteristics of an
IJV

·        
Compliance

·        
Practical issues: law, disputes, etc.

·        
JV Risks Management

·        
Subcommittees:

o   
Technical, Financial

o   
Lifting, Logistics

·        
Accounting Procedure