AGR Petroleum Services

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1 AGR Petroleum Services AGR Petroleum Services is part of AGR Group, which is a leading provider of essential services and technologies to the international oil and gas industry, AGR Group has three operating divisions: Petroleum Services Drilling Services Field Operations Mark Bentley Director, AGR TRACS Training [email protected] AGR TRACS Training Ltd Union Plaza, 1 Union Wynd Aberdeen AB10 1SL Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) Karenslyst allé Oslo Norway Tel: Fax:

2 Oil & Gas Training Services Training for growth

3 By tailoring content to specific client needs, AGR TRACS Training delivers courses and programmes that are superior to the standard offered in the marketplace. TRACS training style, which embraces experiential learning and interactive delivery, combined with a history of teaching in 45 countries, enables us to offer distinct learning and development programmes globally. Mark Bentley Director AGR TRACS Training

4 History Training on every continent except Antarctica. TRACS Training was established in 1992 and quickly developed a training portfolio with a global reach. Tailored courses and programmes have now been run in 45 countries and more than 20,000 people have taken part in TRACS Training courses. Courses have been organised from offices in Aberdeen, London, Perth and Moscow, and have also been translated into Russian. In 2008 TRACS became part of AGR Petroleum Services and has been rebranded as AGR TRACS Training, offering additional course coverage in Scandinavia, the Americas and Asia through our offices in Oslo, Houston, Dubai and Almaty. The training portfolio now extends to 50 courses, with more than 100 courses being run annually by a team of over 40 tutors. Cross-disciplinary programmes are often run by two tutors with complementary technical expertise, and some courses are run in a workshop style for groups of up to 100.

5 Ethos Our training courses are distinguished from the industry standard by being tailored to the specific needs of a client audience. Using the AGR TRACS Training library as a starting point, the content of the courses together with their timing and location is specified in discussion with the training specialists from the client company. Courses can also be arranged for multiple clients if required. Our ethos is therefore to dedicate our effort to the design of a tailored product. We believe the success of a course is ultimately determined not only by good delivery but also by appropriate targeting to the audience. We can achieve this because, unlike many other training providers, most of the course material is developed and owned by us. Moreover, many of the staff and associates who make up the tutor group are colleagues and have built up experience as a tutor group, developing a shared style and making the AGR TRACS Training brand unique. To ensure our material stays up-to-date, our tutors are also practising E&P consultants in their own right, and the tutor group includes technical authors and industry-recognised Distinguished Lecturers. We believe the success of a course is ultimately determined not only by good delivery but also by tailored design

6 Tailored training

7 Training Series Our material is divided into several Training Series, with each Series having a distinct character and typical course groupings. New courses, tailored to clients requests, can be offered within any of these Series. Early Development The Early Development Series is designed for groups of new entrants to the industry such as graduate intake. The courses are typically multi-disciplinary in content and audience, and may extend to complete course programmes. The courses typically include a team-building component. Reservoir The Reservoir Series includes the technical subsurface courses from geophysics through to geology, petrophysics and reservoir engineering. These can be given as courses for other disciplines as well as introductory-level courses within-discipline. Exploration and Production Overview The E&P Overview Series is aimed at audiences, often non-technical, looking for a succinct summary of the E&P business. The courses are typically short (one-to-three days) but can range in duration from one week down to one hour. Wells The Wells Series includes the wells-based technical courses from completion design through to introductory drilling and well planning. These are offered for non-wells disciplines in addition to drilling and completions staff.

8 Business and Risk The Business and Risk Series embraces the non-technical business courses such as petroleum economics and risk analysis, strategy and planning. These have been run both as traditional classroom courses and as workshop-style programmes, often for large groups (50+). Coaching The Coaching Series was designed to address the needs of individuals or teams for direct coaching involving material from any of the Series described above. These are truly tailored events and have been run as one-off courses or as a set of short sessions. Open Air The Open Air Series takes training events to outdoor locations, combining classroom teaching with sessions on rock outcrops which serve as reservoir analogues. The teaching is pitched at multi-disciplinary audiences as well as geoscience groups. Most courses from the other Series can be offered in this format. Master Class The Master Class Series gathers together a set of specialist courses for experienced staff. The courses are industry-leading and tutored by individuals who are at the forefront of their respective disciplines. These are offered both as lecture-based or workshop-style training courses.

9 Instructional Design

10 Training Consultancy We assist in the design of training programmes for both national and independent oil companies. Consultancy can take the form of advice on programme content and delivery style through to the development of the course material itself. In these cases the material can be owned by the client company with technical content specific to that company. It can thus be reserved for their internal use. The material can be packaged for the client company with guidelines on instruction, and train-the-trainer programmes may be run for client staff to familiarise themselves with the new material. The programmes may also subsequently be delivered by our tutors, or with our tutors working alongside client company staff. We also recognise that learning programmes create a forum for networking and technical exchange. We therefore organise training programmes on behalf of clients to support them in developing new markets and in building business relationships with new clients. Training consultancy has been delivered since 1992 to national oil companies in the Middle East and SE Asia, and in major Western-based multinationals.

11 People The tutor group of over 40 experienced staff members and close associates work from AGR offices in Aberdeen, Oslo, London, Houston, Moscow, Almaty, Dubai and Perth. The profiles below introduce a selection of the group currently involved in the development and delivery of new course material and in the organisation and maintenance of the course portfolio. Key course tutors are presented in the course-specific outlines. Mark Graham BSc Master Class 31 years, petroleum engineering and economics Schlumberger, Shell and TRACS Author, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, AGR Director Mark Bramwell PhD Reservoir, Early Development, E&P Overview, Open Air 24 years, geoscience Shell, KUFPEC and TRACS Programme manager for the Early Development Series Runar Gundesø MSc Reservoir 25 years, geoscience Norsk Hydro, PGS, RES and AGR New business development, Scandinavia Mark Cook BSc, MBA Early Development, Business & Risk 27 years, reservoir engineering Shell and TRACS Author, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, AGR VP Mark Bentley PhD Reservoir, E&P Overview, Open Air and Master Class 23 years, geoscience Shell and TRACS SPE and EAGE Distinguished Lecturer, AGR TRACS Training Director Eivind Damsleth MSc Main series tutoring: Business & Risk, Master Class 35 years, statistics, risk and project management Norwegian Computing Centre, Norsk Hydro, Saga and AGR Statistics advisor

12 Gudmund Olsen MSc Main series tutoring: Reservoir, E&P Overview 25 years, reservoir engineer Norsk Hydro, AGR Project and section manager Mahmood Akbar MSc Reservoir, Wells, Master Class 21 years, reservoir engineering Phillips Petroleum, Total, Saga Petroleum and AGR SPE-Oslo board director Frank Jahn BSc Main series tutoring: E&P Overview, Early Development, Reservoir 29 years, geoscience Shell, TRACS, WorleyParsons, Woodside Author, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, new business development, Middle East Jon Suller BSc Early Development, Business & Risk 28 years, commercial, petroleum engineering BP, Gas Strategies and TRACS Course development and new business development, SE Asia Jonathan Bellarby MSc Wells, Early Development 23 years, well technology BP, ICE and TRACS Author, Well Completion Design John Gallivan PhD Reservoir, Business & Risk, Master Class 30 years, reservoir and petroleum engineering, economics BNOC, Britoil, BP, Heriot-Watt and TRACS AGR Director, Moscow

13 What our clients say Thank you for one of the most thought-provoking geomodelling courses I have attended in recent years. I have taken an enormous amount away from this session and thank you also for your time and energy. Geoscientist ConocoPhillips I would like to thank you for producing a tremendous two weeks of geoscience training for our geoscientists. It was great to hear how positive the group were on the course and for the significant impact it had on individuals, in their understanding of themselves and geoscience. Team leader BP As usual, the scores on the evaluation forms are very good. This is also my impression from speaking to some of the participants. They all say that you are gifted when it comes to presenting the material in an intuitive, interesting and useful manner. Training co-ordinator Statoil I greatly appreciated your contribution to our programme for new graduates and mature hires it was a very dynamic programme of work-place learning which we adapted as we went along. You did a great job of identifying needs, and creating and then pulling together the elements of the programme. This went well beyond my expectations. Team leader Shell

14 In total harmony with client needs and interests

15 Reach AGR TRACS Training has a global reach You specify the location, we deliver the course or programme AGR offices Training course locations Fiona Swapp Graphic Design Design and development of course materials across all Series Lesley Parkinson Training Co-ordinator Course scheduling, client contact, materials and logistics, across all Series

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