Joint ventures, strategic alliances, and technical partnerships have a profound impact on value creation in the oil and gas sector by being important drivers in stimulating growth, attracting capital, mitigating operational risk, and discovering new market opportunities. The Navigating Joint Ventures and Collaborations in the Oil and Gas Industry Training Course, offered by Imperial Corporate Training Institute, provides professionals with the high-level strategic, commercial, and governance capabilities required to manage complex multi-party arrangements. This course is specifically designed for senior corporate executives, legal professionals, commercial teams, and operational managers and provides the opportunity to practically explore avenues to structure partnerships that translate into measurable value while still attending to organizational protections.
Delegates navigate through the life-cycle of joint ventures; from viability assessment, to negotiation of shareholder agreements, to operational management, regulatory compliance, conflict resolution, and exit strategies. Taking into account the realities of the energy landscape today, the course combines corporate decision making frameworks with industry specific considerations, including, but not limited to, asset monetization, capital allocation, cross-border contracts, and evolving geopolitical risks. By the end of this course, professionals have left with the corporate solutions and comforts from leading multi-party negotiations in high stakes ventures. By empowering and equipping participants with a corporate framework and systems, leaders are ensuring their organizations are equipped to handle today’s competitive global climate, while remaining resilient, compliant, and strategically aligned.
Objectives
At the end of this course attendees will be able to:
- Provide participants with a thorough corporate-level understanding of the joint venture models used in the upstream, midstream, and downstream of the oil and gas sector.
- Provide the strategic context necessary to assess potential partnership candidates, commercial governance, and risk frameworks in a way that encourages long-term success between parties.
- Develop participants’ confidence and competency in negotiating term sheets, shareholders agreements, operating agreements and cross-border contractual arrangements.
- Build participants’ confidence in dealing with complex governance matters, board structures, voting rights and management control frameworks involved in joint venture ‘ownership’.
- Enable participants to understand fiscal components related to joint venture arrangements, including capital contributions, profit sharing agreements, cost recovery provisions and operational budgets.
- Enhance participants’ decision making around regulatory compliance, environmental obligations and sector-based legal provisions that may be relevant to collaborative projects.
- Assist leaders in identifying early indicators for misalignment, dispute or operational risk and taking the necessary steps to engage existing conflict resolution methods where necessary.
- Introduce best practices in performance monitoring, joint venture auditing and ongoing awareness of key operational procedures, joint venture management and relationship management.
- Provide a corporate path for restructuring, renegotiating or exiting a joint venture agreement or partnership in conjunction with strategic priorities changing.
- Prepare professionals to manage cross-functional teams engaged in the collaboration planning phase, joint venture negotiations, implementing the collaboration and supervising each phase of the agreement’s long-term governance & optimisation.
Target Audience
This course is ideal for:
- Senior executives and decision makers from oil and gas companies that are developing strategic partnerships.
- Corporate development teams that work with mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and investment evaluation.
- Commercial managers, project directors, and business development professionals who manage joint venture relationships.
- Legal counsel and contract managers that create and negotiate their partnership agreements.
- Financial analysts, investment professionals, and corporate planners evaluating the economics of joint ventures.
- Operations managers, technical professionals, and engineers working on shared assets or multi-company projects.
- Government relations and regulatory affairs professionals working with approvals and compliance models.
- Risk management professionals monitoring operational, financial and governance exposures in their joint ventures.
- Energy consultants and advisory professionals supporting joint venture structuring and market-entry planning.
- Any professional in the oil and gas ecosystem looking to understand their work in partnership with other entities that govern multi-party collaboration.