International Business Communication Skills

This practical leadership course will help you achieve your business goals by enhancing your existing people management skills. The course follows on from our leadership and people management skills course.

This is an intensive training programme designed to improve and enhance the skills of personnel involved in auditing upstream exploration and production activities, concentrating on aspects of auditing that are unique to this industry.

This introductory-level course provides a comprehensive overview of Auditing in the Exploration &amp, Production industry. It is suitable for anyone who wants to gain a broader understanding of Upstream Oil &amp, Gas Auditing – including joint venture, financial and contractual audits by government and regulatory authorities in the various granting regimes (Production Sharing Contracts, Risk Service Contracts, Concessionary). It is highly participative using a combination of instruction, group discussions and industry specific examples and exercises to ensure attendees absorb both the theory and the practical application of the topics.

This is an intensive training programme designed to improve and enhance the skills of personnel involved in the financial and contractual auditing of Oil &amp, Gas Exploration and Production activities. The objective of this course is to enhance your understanding of the various audit principles and practices being applied in this industry today and to equip you with the knowledge and tools to deal with complex audit cases. Extensive use is made of realistic industry-based exercises and case studies to reinforce key teaching points and to provide participants with opportunities to apply the knowledge gained in a practical and enjoyable format.

Developing effective procurement and supply chain management (scm) strategy can make valuable quantifiable contributions to a company's performance. This practical course shows how to adopt a best-practice model, and outlines the latest thinking in upstream petroleum industry procurement.

This highly interactive course aims to show how to improve value and cash flow in a low oil price environment. Using industry based case studies it will help participants to build credible budgets, identify practical cost management actions, understand the impact of decisions on operational performance and put in place tracking systems to measure success.

During the one day course vital areas such as the importance of cultural awareness, etiquette, communication, relationship building and traditions, as well as more complex topics such as religion, cross cultural attitudes, language, negotiation skills, agreement building and business practices will be covered. The aim is to provide the knowledge, know-how and confidence to communicate effectively within a multi-cultural environment.

This workshop will provide a comprehensive understanding on the nature of costs and cost drivers in the E&amp,P industry providing in-depth understanding on the budgeting process, proactive management, effective control and optimization of costs together with focused and relevant performance reporting. A combination of instruction, group discussions, practical examples and exercises are used to ensure attendees absorb both the theory and the practical application of the topics.

This hands-on course uses computer simulation to enable you to manage a sample project, gaining first-hand experience of the essential tools and techniques of successful project management.

This introductory-level course provides a comprehensive overview of international accounting and finance practices in the e&amp,p industry. It is particularly suitable for finance personnel who are new to the oil and gas industry, or want to gain a broader understanding of oil and gas financial policy, joint venture and cost-control topic areas. This course is available via live instructor led modules, contact MDT International to find out more

This intermediate-level course will enhance your knowledge of the financial accounting and reporting issues, joint-venture and production-sharing accounting issues and improves your ability to prepare departmental and company-wide e&amp,p budgets and control and analyse the costs incurred. This course is available via live instructor led modules, contact MDT International to find out more

This is an advanced, highly interactive workshop in which delegates work in small teams to explore and analyse wide-ranging financial scenarios based on the realistic, computer-based simulation of various international exploration and production activities.

This course draws widely on industry case studies and realistic examples to deliver a broad-based, practical introduction to managing oil and gas exploration, development and production contracts.

The objective of this course is to provide delegates with an introduction to all the activities involved in decommissioning from early planning preparation and execution, including strategic decisions, to delivering the final project. It is delivered by 3 well-known industry figures with a wealth of direct decommissioning experience covering strategic aspects and project execution at a senior level. Experience and examples from previous decommissioning activities are used throughout to reinforce points and issues. The principles introduced are transferable across all assets and facilities and provide an insight from an Operator’s perspective, hence delivering the most comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the decommissioning process.

The objective of this course is to provide delegates with an introduction to all the activities involved in decommissioning from early planning preparation and execution, including strategic decisions, to delivering the final project. It is delivered by 3 well-known industry figures with a wealth of direct decommissioning experience covering strategic aspects and project execution at a senior level. Experience and examples from previous decommissioning activities are used throughout to reinforce points and issues. The principles introduced are transferable across all assets and facilities and provide an insight from an Operator’s perspective, hence delivering the most comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the decommissioning process.

This wide-ranging and practical overview covers each key phase of the exploration and production industry. It offers oil and gas professionals the opportunity to gain a technical commercial understanding of the industry fundamentals. This course is available via live instructor led modules, contact MDT International to find out more.

The overall objective of this course is to provide delegates with an introduction to the basic technical aspects of well decommissioning and how this activity fits into oil and gas decommissioning projects overall. The course will focus on how and why wells are decommissioned and will highlight the risks and uncertainties faced by engineers and how this can impact on the financial performance of a decommissioning project. New and emerging technologies and techniques will also be covered to consider where improved performance in well abandonment techniques may emerge in the future. This course is intended primarily for non-technical staff and Managers.

This practical activity-based course is aimed at developing essential leadership and people management skills in people who are relatively new to this demanding role. This course is available via live instructor led modules, contact MDT International to find out more.

Allows personnel who do not have a financial background to understand the basic principles, theory and practice of financial reporting &amp, analysis as they apply to the oil and gas industry.

This highly-interactive workshop demonstrates a structured approach to effective negotiating and introduces breakthrough negotiation strategy to achieve results in difficult and complex negotiations. This course is available via live instructor led modules, contact MDT International to find out more .

This introductory course offers participants a comprehensive understanding of the key technical and commercial aspects of the oil&amp, gas industry. The use of exercises and scenarios ensures excellent audience engagement while at the same time reinforcing the key learning outcomes. Attendees will leave this course with a better grasp of the terminology of the industry and with a broader understanding of the key phases of the field life cycle.

This highly interactive and scenario-based training programme will enable you to apply a structured approach to project justification, investment appraisal and decision-making in the upstream petroleum business.

This course is to provide practicing engineers with the tools to tackle well decommissioning projects or campaigns. The course focuses on engineering best practice and you will learn how industry guidelines are implemented in both planning and execution of decommissioning projects. You will become familiar with associated risks and uncertainties and begin to feel confident about how to manage these in the planning stage as well as dealing with them as they progress to operational phase. The selection of technologies and techniques for a wide range of well scenarios will also form an important part of this comprehensive technical course along with a field abandonment case study exercise.