Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors Training Course

  • Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors Training Course
  • Spain - Madrid

Essential Skills for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors Training Course

Course Category : Oil & Gas Management

This course focuses on developing the operational, leadership, and risk management competencies of middle management and supervisors in the oil and gas sector, supporting effective decision-making and sustainable operational performance.
Duration: 10 Training Days
Level: Advanced.

Starts On

2 - November - 2026

Ends On

6 - November - 2026

Location

Spain - Madrid

Language

English

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Targeted Audience

  • Oil and gas managers
  • Supervisors in oil and gas operations
  • Upstream, midstream, and downstream team leaders
  • Project managers in oil and gas
  • HSE managers and supervisors
  • Operations managers
  • Engineers transitioning into managerial roles
  • Professionals in oil and gas supply chain management
  • Energy sector risk managers
  • Oil and gas contract administrators

Targeted Skills

  • Strategic decision-making in a volatile environment
  • Leadership, team management, and performance accountability
  • Risk assessment and management linked to opportunities
  • Operational efficiency and reliability optimisation
  • Financial acumen in oil and gas economics and energy finance
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Safety culture development and safe leadership behaviours
  • Fundamentals of contract and project management within the sector
  • Environmental and regulatory compliance with stakeholder engagement

Expected Outcomes

  • Explain the global oil and gas value chain from discovery to consumption and link it to management decisions.
  • Analyse geopolitical drivers shaping markets, pipelines, supply security, and pricing.
  • Understand refining fundamentals, product specifications, and how refinery complexity impacts profitability.
  • Apply energy economics and finance principles (DCF/NPV/IRR) to managerial evaluation.
  • Differentiate contract types and fiscal regimes (PSC/TSC/JV) and their commercial/managerial implications.
  • Build a practical framework for energy risk management under uncertainty.
  • Lead safety culture practices and develop a positive culture based on trust and operational discipline.

Training Topics Index

  • Nature and formation of fossil fuels and oil reserves
  • Petroleum chemistry and operational characteristics
  • Assay, properties, measurement, and characterisation
  • Resource occurrence and discovery context
  • Uses and industrial applications across sectors

  • Petroleum generation, migration, accumulation, and exploration logic
  • Common rocks/minerals, ocean environment, and plate tectonics
  • Traps, trapping mechanisms, and geophysical/geochemical surveys
  • Drilling and completion essentials casing, cementing, and testing
  • Field development, reserves estimation, surface treatment, and an EOR overview

  • Distribution, transmission, and global transportation networks
  • Energy geopolitics and its effect on operational decisions
  • Pipelines as strategic corridors risks and opportunities
  • OPEC, supply/demand dynamics, and price drivers
  • Sustainability realities versus misconceptions in the energy transition

• Transportation methods

pipelines and tankers

  • Case study Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline
  • Storage facilities and tank farms
  • Tank farm operations with quality and safety controls
  • Commercial relationships between producers, refiners, marketers, and logistics

  • Crude markets, pricing mechanisms, and drivers
  • Operational overview of refining and conversion routes
  • Product specifications, refinery complexity, and margin impact
  • Refining margins, profitability, and performance indicators
  • Sales/marketing dynamics and a petrochemicals overview

  • Global consumption, supply, and price outlooks
  • Energy trading, commodities, and hedging (futures/options)
  • Financing oil and gas projects and petroleum accounting basics
  • DCF and time value of money applying NPV and IRR
  • Inflation, hurdle rates, and investment decision-making

  • Collaboration models between NOCs and IOCs
  • Oil and gas contracts and agreement types
  • Concessions, PSCs, TSCs, and joint ventures governance and accountability
  • Fiscal systems state participation, bonuses, and key terms
  • Lease bidding and foundational negotiation perspectives

  • Energy risk management fundamentals in operations and trading
  • Risk types market, operational, regulatory, and geopolitical
  • Risk and opportunity analysis under uncertainty
  • Nonlinearity and complexity impacts on managerial decisions
  • Carbon and environmental considerations shaping the industry’s future

  • Safety culture concepts and workplace application
  • Building an effective safety management system and leadership role
  • Understanding risk behaviours and influencing safety performance
  • Assessing organisational safety maturity and leading indicators
  • Active listening, non-verbal communication, and presentation skills

  • Negotiation steps and preparation of positions and options
  • Managing fear, pressure, and informed choices
  • Creative thinking, criticism handling, and conflict resolution
  • BATNA, power dynamics, and relational influence
  • Negotiating with integrity and global negotiation strategies