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Project Management for High-Value-Added Petroleum Industry

Updated : 2025.03.31

Status: Report
Course Number
TR-13-17
Title / Theme
Project Management for High-Value-Added Petroleum Industry
Dates
2017.11.07〜2017.11.24
Objectives
To promote understanding of project management from the point of view of the owner side, and to improve project management and leadership abilities to create a high-value-added petroleum industry in the future
Main Topics
Participants will discuss petroleum and petrochemical business integration projects as a typical example of generating high added value in the petroleum industry. 
1.	Project management activities as project owners in refineries 
2.	Project cost management
3.	Practical exercise & Group discussion 
・	Problems in project management based on experience, and countermeasures
・	The challenge of planning projects for a high-value-added petroleum industry 
4.	Visits to: 
・	A refinery and plant ‒ to study petroleum business and petrochemical business integration projects in Japan 
・	An engineering company ‒ to study EPC project schedule  management and HSE evaluation
・	An engineering company ‒ to study EPC project engineering by utilizing IT
・	A high pressure vessel manufacturer ‒ to understand recent technologies for high pressure vessel manufacturing
・	A boiler and turbine manufacturer ‒ to study recent turbine and boiler technologies 
・	A pipe manufacturer ‒ to study recent material technologies for pipelines.
* EPC: Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Application Deadline
2017.08.07
Qualification
Mid-career engineers with a university degree and at least five years’ experience in the construction, maintenance or planning in the petroleum industry, or those with equivalent qualifications
Host Country
Japan
Others
* Further course details will be announced three (3) months before the start of the course.