1. To Provide material and discussion on the emerging fourth generation of management. This fourth generation is different in kind. Rather than focusing on things management and time management, fourth generation expectation focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results and maintaining the Production and Production Capability balance (P/PC balance). Fourth generation management is ready for the new millenium.
2. To provide basic management history, management concepts of team work, decision making tools, modern internet, and intranet resources for production management, acquire or review planning techniques, review of Production Optimization Techniques and the state-of-the-art Production Technology, acquire or review management control and quality control.
3. To discuss and practice " The 7 Strong Habits for Effective and Successful Managers."
4. To discuss Steam Project Management, Heavy Oil Production Management and Paraffin and Asphaltene Management.
1 - A Profile for Today and a Vision for Tomorrow
1.1. - Review production technology and state-of-the-art of oil and gas production.
1.2. - Y2K Compliance as a production management matter ( Y2K compliance is the best insurance against year 2000 potential problem)
2 - The Management Process
2.1 - Management functions
2.2 - Roles of a Manager
2.3 - Manage Skills
2.4 - Productivity Definition
2.4.1 - Factors influencing Productivity Analysis of productivity factors and management impact on productivity
3 - Objectives, Strategies and Polices in Management
3.1 - Definition, examples and analysis of concepts
4 - Planning, The Fundamental Function of Management
4.1 - Why Planning
4.2 - Informal and formal Planning
4.3 - Operation Planning ( Day to day operation planning)
4.4 - Planning techniques
4.5 - Gantt Charts for Planning and allocation techniques
4.6 - CPM/PERT Methods for planning
4.7 - Microsoft Computer Software " Project" for project planning
4.8 - An example of application of "project"
5 - Management Control
5.1 The Management Control process
5.2 Requirement for Control
5.3 Control of Tolerance
5.4 How much Control
5.5 Control Methods and Systems
5.6 Operation Control
5.6.1 Quality Control (QC)
5.6.2 Types of Quality Control
6 - Managers as Decision Makers
6.1 - Priority, Weight, Limit technique to make decisions
6.2 - Decision Tree Techniques
6.2.1 - Purpose serve by Decision Trees
6.2.2 - Probability Tree for Production Development
6.2.3 - Rollback Evaluation Probability tree
6.2.4 - An statistical Risk Evaluation
7 - World Wide Web Resources for Production Management
7.1 - World Production Statistics Trends.
7.2 - Access to technical and managerial publications
7.3 - Analysis of Petroleum Indexes and impact on Production Management decisions
7.4 - Historical oil and gas price analysis/ Global Economic impact on Prices
8 - The Seven Strong Habits for Effective and Successful Managers
8.1 - Description, Discussion, Application of the 7 habits and Exercises
9 - Team Work
9.1 - Dynamic of Groups and Team Management
10 - Production Optimization Techniques as a Management Decision Tool
10.1 - Principle of Total Well Optimization
10.2 - The Optimization Process
10.3 - Computer resources Analysis
10.4 - Application and Exercises
11 - Planning and Organizational Techniques for Production
11.1 - Development plan for Oil and Gas Reservoir ( Reservoir Declining Studies)
11.2 - The Planning Methods
11.3 - Project Planning
11.3.1 - Special Project Planning: Steam Injection Process
11.3.2 - Preliminary Evaluation of the Project
11.3.3 - Comprehensive Performance evaluation
11.3.4 - Comparison with Conventional Practices
11.3.5 - Pilot Test, Discussion and Summary
11.3.6 - Major Initial Expenses to be included in the Steam Injection Economic Evaluation
11.3.7 - Steam Injection Prospect Evaluation Process Injection and Field Implementation
12 - Management of High Viscosity Crude Oil Production
12.1 - High Viscosity Production Field Optimization
12.2 - Concepts Techniques and examples
12.3 - Diluent Selection and Inventory management
12.4 - Field Distribution Systems
12.5 - Designed Strategic For Diluent Distribution Systems
12.6 - Planning for System Implementation
13 - Management of Paraffin and Asphaltene Problems
13.1 - State of the Art laboratory and field technologies/ Definition and Concepts
13.2 - Emulsion Problems associated to Paraffin and /or Asphaltene
13.3 - Managing Planning for Solving and Controlling Paraffin/Asphaltene Problems
13.4 - Impact of Paraffin and Asphaltene on field productivity
14 - Surface Production facilities Automatic Monitoring/Control
14.1 - Automatic Well Test (AWT) unit
14.2 - Field Automatic Custody Transfer Unit
14.3 - Supervisory Control and data acquisition ( SCADA)
15 - Source of Pollution in Production Operation
15.1 - Water Quality and Wastewater treatment principles and technology
15.2 - Air quality
15.3 - Waste Management and state of the art technology
15.4 - Summary and Discussion
16 - Workshop to discuss problems and cases brought by participants
