EI online courses

Module 2: Upstream – Exploration and Production

This online Level 2 Oil and Gas intermediary training provides further insight into oil and gas activities. It aims to provide existing oil and gas industry employees with deeper insights to the sector and to equip new recruits with sufficient knowledge and detail of the industry to understand employers' requirements.

Module 5: Project Planning and Performance Management in the Upstream Oil and Gas Sector Sectors  

This online Level 2 Oil and Gas intermediary training provides further insight into oil and gas activities. It aims to provide existing oil and gas industry employees with deeper insights to the sector and to equip new recruits with sufficient knowledge and detail of the industry to understand employers' requirements.

Module 3: Natural Gas Production and Processing

This online Level 2 Oil and Gas intermediary training provides further insight into oil and gas activities. It aims to provide existing oil and gas industry employees with deeper insights to the sector and to equip new recruits with sufficient knowledge and detail of the industry to understand employers' requirements.

Module 6 - Portfolio perspectives for groups of oil and gas assets

This module describes how oil and gas companies typically do not invest in single assets but hold groups of assets located in different geographic regions. These portfolios of assets help the companies to better manage their risk exposures through diversification, balance and correlation between different types of asset. The benefits of strategically managing oil and gas asset portfolios are highlighted.

Module 2 - Organisations participating in the oil and gas industry and their characteristics

This module describes the different types of organization involved in and extracting value from the oil and gas industry. It identifies those organizations that are controlled by governments, those that operate and invest in oil and gas assets, and those that provide services (technical, engineering, construction, financial services, legal, trading, lobbying and professional support).

Module 4: Midstream and Downstream Oil Sectors

This online Level 2 Oil and Gas intermediary training provides further insight into oil and gas activities. It aims to provide existing oil and gas industry employees with deeper insights to the sector and to equip new recruits with sufficient knowledge and detail of the industry to understand employers' requirements.

Module 1 - Oil and gas value chains and the resources and reserves that feed them

This module describes the significance by global region of oil and gas in the context of primary energy supply and consumption. It distinguishes the significance of the upstream, midstream and downstream components of the supply chains and what constitutes reserves and resources.

Module 10 - Oil and gas acquisition and divestment activities and strategies

This module describes the significance of acquisition and divestment to the oil and gas sector, the processes involved and the trends of activity over recent years and decades. It identifies the main types of deal structures involved and why a portfolio approach is required to make appropriate decisions regarding appropriate assets to buy, hold or sell.

Module 5 - Upstream oil and gas production processes and facilities

This module describes the types of surface facilities and structures involved in upstream oil and gas production and processes. It considers the need for fluid separators, drilling equipment and subsurface pumping and distinguishes the requirements of onshore and offshore facilities. For the offshore industry it considers the different types and components of fixed platforms and floating facilities and their subsea requirements.

Module 11 - Geophysical exploration and development techniques

This module describes remote sensing technologies used for oil and gas exploration. It includes gravity, magnetic and electromagnetic mapping to define basin-scale subsurface feature and geochemical surveys to detect seeps of oil and gas at the Earth’s surface. The main focus is on seismic technologies applied onshore and offshore during the exploration and development phases to provide high-resolution information about the subsurface.