POSTPONED | Night School – Project Management and Effective Technical Writing

This four week training course is being delivered by John H Martin.

The course has been split into four parts.

Part 1 l Project Management I Defining the project; Planning:
Thursday 12 March 2020
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Part 2 l Project Management I Project scheduling and control; Applying PM techniques:
Tuesday 17 March 2020
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Part 3 l Effective Technical Writing I How to write; Analysing objectives and developing messages:
Tuesday 24 March 2020
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Part 4 l Effective Technical Writing I Tips to improve writing skills; Managing the reporting process:
Tuesday 7 April 2020
6:00pm – 8:00pm

The following now is written to apply to the entire workshop:

What you’ll learn: E&P and consultancy enterprises rely on close integration of technical disciplines. This creates significant challenges; but tried and tested Project Management techniques can be applied and/or adapted. The sessions will have a practical focus and you will be able to adopt the techniques the next morning!

No project is complete if not documented effectively. The second two sessions will assist efficient reporting of geoscience and petroleum engineering work. The easily applied but effective techniques will be new to many!

Who should attend: This workshop will address skill sets that will be useful to staff of all disciplines who may work as part of an integrated study team. The first two sessions will be particularly appropriate if you serve as a Project Leader but have had little previous exposure to PM methods.  The second two sessions will be of benefit to any technical specialist, whether a native English speaker or a non-native speaker who nevertheless uses this language in technical work.

The workshop leader has over 30 years’ experience of managing and reviewing multidisciplinary studies and compiling proposals, reports, development plans, M&A documents, unitisation submissions, expert rulings and petroleum agreements (www.jhma-reservoir.com).

This course will go ahead regardless of the number of attendees.

John H Martin graduated with a first class honours degree in Geology from Oxford University in 1977, and obtained a PhD in Sedimentology and Economic Geology at the University of Edinburgh (1981). He worked as a Reservoir Geologist in the Production Geology Department of Shell Research Laboratories in The Hague, specialising in the study of complex clastic reservoirs in Oman, including support for EOR projects. From 1985–1989, as Senior, later Principal Geologist with International Petroleum Engineering Consultants Ltd in London, his responsibilities included reservoir geological evaluation, input to integrated field studies and, latterly, the management of engineering projects.

He has authored, edited and reviewed several papers concerning integrated geological and engineering evaluation of complex reservoirs. Till 1992 he held the post of Senior Lecturer in Development Geology at Imperial College, London, where he taught reservoir geology at MSc level.

Since 1989 he has been an independent reservoir development consultant/advisor; Director of John H Martin Associates Ltd since 1996. Roles include responsibility for technical management, presentation and reporting of major integrated field studies and assists clients with asset acquisition and divestment/farm-outs. He is regularly involved in North Sea and international unitisation and equity redeterminations, both in Expert and advisory roles.

His worldwide project experience includes more than 30 countries and he has presented around 100 public and in-house training workshops and courses in over two dozen locations.

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