Overview
The oil and gas management programme, offered by GABM is ideal for people with no prior experience of energy management, as well those already working in the industry.
We teach you about oil and gas production, infrastructure and use, so you’ll be equipped to work in senior roles in any area of oil and gas management. You’ll be introduced to current themes and trends in the oil and gas industry, gaining valuable insight into the management of oil and gas from upstream to downstream.
Everything you learn will be rooted in the contemporary business landscape, drawing in real practical examples and case studies so you’ll be able to enter the industry upon graduation with a solid understanding of issues, challenges and opportunities that the sector faces.
Program Aims
Emerging superpowers, India and China, are competing on the world stage for a larger share of the world’s energy resources. As a result, more countries around the world are developing their natural resources, and as competition increases so do the energy prices. This fast growing sector of the world’s economy therefore represents a big opportunity for employment for highly skilled professionals and managers.
This programme aims to provide specialist professional development and qualifications for a wide range of potential employers including national and multinational energy companies, consultancies, energy ministries and international agencies. Students are expected to be exposed to the complexities of management within the industry helping to have a strong understanding of the interconnections between the different value chains of the oil and gas industry.
The programme is designed to meet the increasing demand for practical management skills for students and professionals working in the energy industry and provide students with skills and mindsets that will allow them to operate within and lead in the energy industry of the 21st century. In addition, it will provide an educational experience in which students can achieve an integrated understanding of the science and management strategy within the context of the energy and hydrocarbon industry, while also developing appropriate intellectual and personal skills.
The Oil and Gas Management has the following aims.
- Encourage students to approach their academic and subsequent professional careers as creative and innovative managers and engineers.
- Prepare students with the necessary scientific, engineering and technological principles and tools to resolve complex design problems in oil and gas management applications individually and as part of a team.
- Ensure that successful graduate will have the potential to contribute to significant advances in engineering and technology and social issues associated with oil and gas management.
- Extend knowledge of technologies and related sciences in the resolution of oil and gas management problems.
- Develop the critical and analytical skills involving the principles, practices and techniques of oil and gas management.
- Develop the student’s research methods and application.
- Develop an in-depth understanding and application of management skills, including team working leadership and organization to implement strategies to resolve management problems and projects.
Awards Graduate Qualification
- Graduate Certificate in Oil and Gas Management
- Graduate Diploma in Oil and Gas Management
Awards Designation Qualification
- Certified Oil and Gas Professional (COGP)
- Certified Oil and Gas Manager (COGM)
- Certified Oil and Gas Director (COGD)
Awards are conferred in accordance with the GABM General and Academic Regulations for Students and the GABM Postgraduate Programme Assessment, Progression and Award Regulations.
Graduate Certificate in
Oil and Gas Management
Indian Rupees
Indian Nationals
18,999/-
US Dollars
International
Students
300$
Complete Learning Pack
4-6 Months Access
Graduate Diploma in
Oil and Gas Management
Indian Rupees
Indian Nationals
24,999/-
US Dollars
International
Students
350$
Complete Learning Pack
4-6 Months Access
Certified Professional in
Oil and Gas Management
Indian Rupees
Indian Nationals
24,999/-
US Dollars
International
Students
350$
Complete Learning Pack
4-6 Months Access
Certified Manager in
Oil and Gas Management
Indian Rupees
Indian Nationals
29,999/-
US Dollars
International
Students
400$
Complete Learning Pack
4-6 Months Access
Certified Director in
Oil and Gas Management
Indian Rupees
Indian Nationals
39,999/-
US Dollars
International
Students
500$
Complete Learning Pack
4-6 Months Access
Entry Requirements
Entrants to this programme are normally required to have attained the following.
- Applicants should either have at least Secondary school or entry to bachelor degree for
Graduate certificate - Students who have completed bachelor degree / fresher or final year students can apply for
Graduate diploma. - Students who have completed bachelor degree / fresher or final year students can apply for
professional certificate. - Bachelor degree with 2 years’ experience for Managerial certificate.
- Bachelor degree with 2 years’ experience for Managerial certificate.
- Bachelor degree with 5 years’ experience for Director Certificate.
- A good honors degree or equivalent in a relevant subject or and work experience in relevant
management or other related field.
Career Prospect
Career opportunities include,
- Oil and gas exploration.
- Research modeling.
- Engineering and management.
- Drilling and production.
- Product marketing.
- Management and finance.
When you graduate you’ll have the skills and knowledge for a successful career in the expanding oil and gas industry.
Who Should Attend
This programme has been specifically designed to give you the skills, knowledge and connections to work in senior positions throughout the oil and gas industry, as well as in other energy-related positions nationally and internationally. As well as working directly in management positions in the industry, you’ll also be equipped to work in related areas like strategic consulting, analytics, research, teaching and more.
Learning and Training Methods
The Oil and Gas management programme uses a number of different assessment techniques that will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of concepts and issues covered. These may be broadly categorized as ‘coursework’ which may be in the form of individual or group assignments, practical problem-solving exercises and presentations.
It should be emphasized that the purpose of assessment is not only grade you, and provide information to facilitate management of the course, but also to provide feedback to you. In this manage it accordingly. You should keep all the returned assessment work in a file as you may have to submit this at the end of the programme for the academy to assess.
Individual model leaders will distribute information on the methods of assessment used, and their weighing at the start of each module.
Programme Curriculam MAP
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Module / Description |
Graduate Certificate |
Graduate Diploma |
Certified Financial Professional |
Certified Financial Manager |
Certified Financial Director |
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| The Global Oil and Gas Industry |  |
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| Nationalism, National Oil Companies and the curse of Oil |  |
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| Developing oils and gas projects | |
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| Production of Oil and Gas | |
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| Fiscal Regimes | |
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| Financing and financial performance | |
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| Capital sourcing for the oil and gas industry | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG ) | |
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| The market for crude oil | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Refining | |
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| Sales and Marketing of petroleum products | |
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| Petrochemicals | |
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| The future of the global oil and gas industry | |
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| Project Report – 100 Points | |
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360 |
420 |
420 |
Modules
- Introduction
- Oil and Gas industry background
- Oil and gas reserves
- Oil and gas in global economy
- The players
- The oil and gas industry value chain
- Upstream: Exploration, development and production
- Reservoir management
- Upstream profitability
- Midstream : trading and transportation
- Downstream : oil refining and marketing
- Gasoline retailing
- Natural Gas
- Petrochemicals
- Fundamentals of business : what is strategy
- Evolution of the Industry
- Innovation and technology
- Mergers and acquisitions
- China and India
- Industry substitutes and alternate fuels
- What next for the global oil and gas Industry
- Introduction
- The role and value of oil and gas
- National security
- National Wealth
- Government and corporate Interests
- The corporation
- Corporate stakeholders
- Financial stakeholders
- Business stakeholders
- Internal stakeholders
- Social stakeholders
- The state and civil society
- Oil and gas and environment
- Evolution of national oil companies
- Birth of national oil company
- Evolution of resource-rich Noc’s
- Access to capital
- The NOC/IOC relationship
- The strategic interests of IOCs and Noc’s
- Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)
- Founding principles
- Market share
- Emerging strategy
- The curse of Oil
- Countries afflicted by the curse
- The economics of the curse of oil
- Can the curse of the oil can be avoided
- Oil and gas and domestic politics
- The future
- Introduction
- The oil project life cycle
- Oil and gas formation
- Finding oil
- Access and development rights
- Historical precedent : the natural zone conclusions
- Oil leases
- Reserves
- Defining reserves
- Lease auctions
- Exploration strategy and technology
- Partnership and farm-ins
- Introduction
- Project development case example: Frade chevron
- Development project opportunities
- Joint development / unitization
- Project financial analysis
- Project execution
- Contractor relationships
- Problems in project development
- Introduction
- Defining costs in the upstream
- Performance and competitive advantage
- Oil economics
- Cost management
- Innovation and technology
- Field reinvestment
- Partnership management
- Managing political risk
- Introduction
- Development Agreements
- Petroleum fiscal regimes
- Added contractual features
- Top line risks
- A hypothetical sub Saharan PSA
- Fiscal regimes today
- Government and policy change
- The future
- Introduction
- Business financing A primer
- Basic balance sheet
- Managerial balance sheet
- Cash
- Net working capital
- Net fixed assets
- Invested capital
- Funding the firm: debt and equity
- Equity
- Debt
- Revenue and earnings
- Financial performance
- Return on sales
- Gross profit margin
- Return on assets
- Return on equity
- Return on invested capital
- Return on capital employed
- Performance and credit worthiness
- Windfall profit
- Industry profitability
- Industry response to higher prices
- Industry reinvestment
- Deserving of profits
- Introduction
- Corporate finance
- Public equity
- Private equity
- Venture capital
- Debt
- Project finance
- Multilateral lending
- State interests
- Oil loans
- Petroleum finance today
- Ruminations on valuation
- Introduction
- Natural gas : chemistry and form
- Raw natural gas production
- Liquefied natural gas( LNG)
- Unconventional Gas
- Natural gas reserves, fields and production
- Natural gas reserves
- Natural gas use and markets
- Price trading and markets
- Introduction
- The integrated LNG project
- Upstream
- Transportation to liquefaction
- Liquefaction
- Shipping
- Regasification
- Competitive cost analysis
- LNG contracting
- LNG market and pricing
- Gas to Liquids ( GTL)
- The future
- Introduction
- Crude oil fundamentals
- The demand for oil
- The supply of oil
- Transportation costs
- The price of crude
- The two crude price eras
- Is crude oil a commodity?
- Benchmark crude oils
- Crude benchmarks and pricing
- Crude oil prices and transactions
- Crude oil transactions
- Spot transactions
- Future contracts
- How future works
- Contracts transactions
- Oil shipment and inventories
- Introduction
- Fundamentals of transportation
- The barrel
- Upstream transportation
- Pipelines
- Gathering systems
- Pipeline construction
- Pipeline operation
- The chicken or the egg
- Gas pipeline sector
- An overview of selected pipelines
- Transalaskan pipeline
- Langeled underwater pipeline
- Chad-cameroon pipeline
- Camisea pipeline
- Druzhba pipeline
- Oil tankers
- A brief history of Oil tankers
- Evolution of tanker design
- Oil tankers shift the competitive balance
- The modern supertanker
- chartering a vessel
- Shipping contracts
- Tanker charter rates
- Tanker operators
- Environmental risk
- Downstream transportation
- Railroad transport today
- Introduction
- Global refining
- Independent and integrated refiners
- The refining process
- Distillation
- Hydro treating, cracking and reforming
- Other processes
- Safety and environmental issues
- Refineries and exit barriers
- The refinery product mix
- Refinery complexity
- Location
- Product demand
- Refining margins and profitability
- The cost of crude
- Refining value and crack spreads
- Trading crack spreads
- Other refinery cost drivers
- Technological and managerial capabilities
- Environmental mandates
- Capacity utilization
- Refinery scheduling
- Refinery complexity and efficiency
- Inventory management
- Refinery profitability : putting it all together
- Introduction
- Motor Fuel
- Channels to market
- Refiner-owned and operated retail outlets
- Franchisers and distributors
- Jobber –operated outlets
- Independent dealers
- Super convenience stores
- Super markets and hypermarkets
- Fuel standards and specifications
- The retail price of motor fuels
- Zone pricing
- What are most important factors in the retail price of motor fuels
- Price elasticity of motor fuels
- The politization of motor fuel prices
- Aviation fuel
- Airline pricing and fuel cost
- Lubricants
- Fuel oils for heating and power generation
- Asphalt and propane
- Introduction
- Chemical industry overview
- Petrochemical production
- Commodity and specialty chemicals
- Industry structure
- Industry profitability
- The future of petrochemicals
- Introduction
- The products
- Peak oil demand
- Crude oil
- A shift to gas
- Shale gas
- Substitute products and renewable/ alternative energy
- The markets
- The players and their strategies
Program Structure
| Module Code | Module | Core/Elective | Credit Points |
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| OGM-101 | The Global Oil and Gas Industry | Core | 20 |
| OGM-102 | Nationalism, National Oil Companies and the curse of Oil | Elective | 20 |
| OGM-103 | Access, Leasing and Exploration | Core | 20 |
| OGM-104 | Developing oils and gas projects | Core | 20 |
| OGM-105 | Production of Oil and Gas | Core | 20 |
| OGM-106 | Fiscal Regimes | Elective | 20 |
| OGM-107 | Financing and financial performance | Elective | 20 |
| OGM-108 | Capital sourcing for the oil and gas industry | Core | 20 |
| OGM-109 | Natural Gas | Core | 20 |
| OGM-110 | Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG ) | Core | 20 |
| OGM-111 | The market for crude oil | Core | 20 |
| OGM-112 | Transportation | Elective | 20 |
| OGM-113 | Refining | Core | 20 |
| OGM-114 | Sales and Marketing of petroleum products | Elective | 20 |
| OGM-115 | Petrochemicals | Core | 20 |
| OGM-116 | The future of the global oil and gas industry | Elective | 20 |
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Assessment Pattern
The GABM global academy consists of variety of assessment modes.
- Assessed assignments ( in essay , report, problem, case studies or short question format)
- Written examination papers.
- Project report submission.
The exact combination of assessment varies from programme to programme and from module to module.
| Programme | Assessment pattern | Credit Points |
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| Graduate certificate in oil and gas Management |
1 Assignment | 200 |
| Graduate Diploma in oil and gas Management |
2 Assignment | 260 |
| Certified Oil and Gas Professional(COGP) |
3 Assignment | 360 |
| Certified Oil and Gas Manager(COGM) |
3 Assignments with project report | 420 |
| Certified Oil and Gas Director(COGD) |
3 Assignments with project report | 420 |
Note: Assignments and patterns are subject to change without notice; candidates are required to contact office of executive education and professional certification of the academy for respective programme before start of the course.
