Why Attend This Training Course?

This training course is a comprehensive guide for project managers in the process and petrochemical industries, from planning through to execution. The course content and case studies have been selected to broaden your horizons and make significant improvements to your next project. While the case studies presented will focus on brownfield projects, the course is useful for project managers working on greenfield projects and turnarounds. The course is equally suited to contractors as well as operators.

What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This course is intended for all Project Managers, Project Engineers, Operations Staff, and all disciplines that work on integrated project teams for Brownfield or onshore and offshore projects that are installed in existing facilities.

What Are The Training Course Objectives?

• Identify critical risks that could stop the project

• Set project accountability straight

• Deal with scope changes and avoid scope creep

• Manage site logistics and avoid unnecessary delays

• Achieve a smooth and leak free start-up

• Prepare for a smooth hand-over

What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Introduction

• What are Brownfield projects and what makes them unique

• Examples of various complex projects and success factors

• Overview of PM software and systems such as Microsoft Project, Kepner-Tregoe, PMI etc.

• Overview of the PMI process and knowledge areas

• The project structures

Project Initiation Process

• Defining and scoping the project

• Identifying Project sponsors & Stakeholders

• Identifying and clarifying objectives, constraints and assumptions

• Identifying resource requirements

• Outlining the basic Project plan

• Establishing scoping controls

• Preliminary, high level risk assessment

• Developing the Change management system

• Developing the Project initiation Document (PID)/Project Charter

Planning the Project

• Assigning Team responsibilities and establishing work stream teams

• Establishing communications framework – internal and external

• Developing the Work Breakdown Structure

• Identifying and quantifying deliverables

• Sequencing & scheduling deliverables

• Establishing milestones

• Scheduling resources

• Completing the Master or Baseline Project Plan

• Signing off on Master Project Plan

• Protecting the Project plan

Risk Management

• Identifying & detailing risks to the project and their triggers

• Developing the Risk management plan

• Incorporating into the Project Plan

• Managing the risks

• Onshore and offshore brownfield specific risks and variables and managing them

Project Implementation/Execution

• Launching the project

• Meeting management – frequency, format, minutes, actions, reporting

• Progress, cost and resource reviews and methods & use of traffic light systems

• Developing and using the Issues List

• Reporting structures and frequency

• Project team communications

• Developing & implementing a quality control plan

Quality Management

• Pre-planning surveys and validation and confirmation of existing status

• Establish clear understanding of the different process and utility systems within the project

• Clearly understand and set out the integration requirements and interconnections within the project