Event Announcement: Managing Project Scope Successfully Through to Closure

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

MANAGING PROJECT SCOPE SUCCESSFULLY 

THROUGH TO CLOSURE

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA | 18 TO 20 APRIL 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA | 24 TO 26 APRIL 2012

Project Managers are expected to manage their projects within the triple constraints of scope, cost, and schedule. Keeping this balance is the key to maintaining project control. Many Project Managers find the majority of their time is focused on tracking progress against the schedule, solving project issues and managing stakeholder expectations. How does the professional Project Manager ensure his project is running within an agreed scope and more importantly, what means are available to manage the outcome if the project stakeholders want things to change? What does that Project Manager need to do to manage expectations? This course explores the answers to project scope management issues and provides Project Managers with credible, quantifiable answers.

21 Professional Development Units (PDUs) Awarded!

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of good project scope planning and control for successful project outcomes
• Use best practice to minimise scope creep and resulting negative impacts
• Describe a typical project scope management lifecycle
• Explain the action required at each phase of the project scope management lifecycle and understand the significance of each phase
• List the key attributes of scope management necessary to understand and manage scope effectively
• Explain the key steps required to improve project estimates, scope baselining and performance analysis, monitoring and control during project execution and interpreting and reporting project performance throughout a technical project lifecycle
• Apply this scope management process to an industry aligned case study

Presented by Internationally Renowned Expert

The Expert has 35 years of project delivery and over 22 years of training experience. He is using tried and tested good practice based on the PMI PMBOK® Guide Global standard, PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management and common sense using standard project management tools, techniques and methods.

Registration is still open for the upcoming "Managing Project Scope Successfully Through to Closure" taking place in 2 locations:

a) Johannesburg, South Africa from 18 to 20 April 2012

b) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 24 to 26 April 2012

Kindly contact Rilla Eas at telephone +65 6557 9183 or via email: rilla.eas@neo-edge.com.

Event Announcement: Business Continuity Management Master Class

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT MASTER CLASS

SINGAPORE, 24 TO 26 APRIL 2012

In 2011, we saw major disasters in countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand. These earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hazardous incidents and other events caused widespread loss of life, devastating damage to property and facilities, severely impacted peoples livelihoods and resulted in significant financial losses to the countries involved. The many businesses, their key suppliers and their other stakeholders that were impacted by these disasters also suffered loss of personnel, damage to facilities and disruption to productivity. Such incidents severely affect an organizations economic stability and continued viability. Many businesses impacted by these disasters did not and will not survive.

This intensive & hands-on three day course, led by a regional expert will show you knowledge obtained first hand, on site business continuity instances. From natural disaster, man made, corporate outage and many more.

This workshop will utilise cases of recent natural disasters, and examine its implication to organisations business continuity management and preparedness.

What YOU will take away from this opportunity

• Learn how to initiate and control the Business Continuity program
• Understand options for Business Continuity and Contingency Strategies
• Understand how an Incident can develop into a Crisis; And why many plans fail
• Gain the latest techniques to make business recovery planning easier – use and take away checklists, questionnaires, models and templates of Business Continuity Plans
• Discover how to develop effective methods for Plan Review, Audit, Exercise and maintenance
• Benefit from hands-on exercises and examine real-life case studies - and their lessons
• Learn about current standards including BS 25999, ANSI/ASIS SPC 1-2009, BS PD 25666, ISO 31000  and others
• Discover how to implement global best practices in Enterprise Risk Management
• Make structured progress through all stages of the BCM lifecycle with current and realistic scenario-based group exercises
• Learn proven techniques to assess and reduce risk and impact

Business Continuity Management is vital to your businesses survivability in adverse situations. Protect your organization. Through good BCM practice you can protect your business your suppliers, customers and other stakeholders. Be ready. Be Prepared. Be protected.

This course will be led by an expert with 36 years of extensive government and private sector experience at senior levels in areas of Emergency / Disaster Management, Contingency Planning, Training, Resilience and Media Interaction. He has the expertise in areas of emergency management and disaster risk reduction with a large number of organizations in both the public and private sectors (ports and airports, hospitals and medical agencies, banks and financial institutions, government departments/agencies, NGOs, schools, universities and training establishments, sporting venues, hotels, public transport providers and commercial companies). In recent years consulted on the HK Disney and the CLP/Exxon Mobile LNG terminal projects.

Registration is still open for the upcoming "Business Continuity Management Master Class" taking place in Singapore from 24 to 26 April 2012.

Kindly contact Rilla Eas at telephone +65 6557 9183 or via email: rilla.eas@neo-edge.com. 

PR Neoedge announces its 2012 lineup of Summits and Workshop Trainings

Singapore, Singapore 1^st March 2012 -- Neoedge Pte. Ltd, a global leader in the events services industry, announces its remarkable line-up of Summits and Master Classes in the first half of 2012:

• Managing Project Scope Successfully Through to Closure, Johannesburg, South Africa / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18 – 20 April 2012 and 24 – 26 April 2012
• Mastering International Oil & Gas Accounting, Mövenpick Hotel Deira, Dubai, UAE, 5-8 March 2012
• Formation Damage Prevention & Treatment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 05 – 08 March 2012
• Asset Integrity Management & Risk-Based Inspection Masterclass, Radisson Blu (SAS) Gautrain Hotel, Sandton Johannesburg, 12 - 14 March 2012
• Power Purchase Agreement Management Master Class, Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay, Singapore, 13 - 15 March 2012
• 5th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2012, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, 20-22 March 2012
• Practical Mineral Processing and Extraction Workshop, Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel, Sandton Johannesburg, 16-20 April 2012
• Procurement Fraud Master Class, Grand Millennium Al Wahda Hotel Abu Dhabi. UAE, 23 – 25 April 2012
• 2nd Annual Global Gas & LNG Summit 2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 23-26 April 2012
• Business Continuity Management Master Class, Singapore, 24 – 26 April 2012
• Best Practices in Demand Planning & Forecasting, Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore,, 25th – 26th April 2012
• Mastering Advanced Financial Analysis for Financial Institutions, Accra, Ghana, 07 – 10 May 2012
• Offshore Floating Production Systems Workshop, Holiday Inn Accra Airport, Accra, Ghana, 08 - 11 May 2012
• LNG Operations & Management Master Class, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago,, 14 – 17 May 2012
• Corporate Information Security Master Class, Singapore, 21 - 24 May 2012

Neoedge Telecoms & Research organisers of with Mobile Commerce Summit Asia will again hold the annual event in Singapore this coming 20^th-22^nd March at The Fullerton Hotel. Dubbed as one of the most important telecom events in ASIA, and the spearhead event in Mobile Commerce Innovation and Growth, it will be the best rollout ever since it started in New Delhi in 2009.

“This year, we are joined by the pioneer in secure mobile transactions technology, C-SAM as the event's Official Lanyard Sponsor. C-SAM General Manager for Asia-Pacific, Shubhrendu Khoche will present on: "The Additional Revenue Stream Argument: A Cost & Benefit Analysis" while Asia Pacific Head of Sales, Elizabeth Duke will lead a Post-Conference Workshop on "Creating and Optimizing the Mobile Wallet: Current Issues, Latest Developments and Effective Solutions.”, said Jhorden Niño, Group Business Development Manager at Neoedge.

With a pool of speakers from 28 different countries, and a mixture of both academic and industrial presentations, delegates will have a unique foundation to learn of the latest developments to achieve growth targets in 2012 and the coming years.

Neoedge Energy & Utilities Edge rolls out the 2^nd Annual Global Gas & LNG Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 23-26 April 2012. The upcoming summit, produced by Rekha Kaur, Experienced Conference Producer who conceptualised Neoedge’s Africa Gas and Shale Gas & Unconventional Gas Summits, will be exploring in-depth insights on current issues and will likewise address on the best strategies, approaches, techniques, innovations as well as the current and future state of the Gas and LNG in a global perspective.

This summit gathering will also serve as venue for the local and international players, independent companies, engineering & service companies to network, share growth opportunities, best practices and latest industry trends.

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Neoedge Pte. Ltd

Neoedge is a business media company that aims to serve the corporate world with integrity and excellence by providing cutting edge business intelligences and creating high value networking opportunities. Neoedge identifies pressing issues that the corporate world is facing. Neoedge events are developed based on careful and original research including extensive and direct interactions with potential participants in the market. Neoedge events are distinguished by delivering premier value to customers in a sustainable means. Neoedge is your long term corporate business partner. For more information about Neoedge www.neo-edge.com

Neoedge is headquartered in Singapore. We have been organising premier events all around the world including in Port of Spain, San Juan, Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Dubai, Kabul, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Perth, Manila, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai.

For more information contact:

Eugene Azucena

Marketing Manager – Telecoms, Energy and Strategic Management

Neoedge Pte. Ltd

DID: +65 6557 9185 FAX: +65 6557 9188

eugene@neo-edge.com

Event Announcement: 2nd Annual Global Gas & LNG Summit 2012

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

2ND ANNUAL GLOBAL GAS & LNG SUMMIT 2012

Keeping pace with the upcoming and changing dynamics of buyers and sellers as well as demand and supply trade movements in the global gas and LNG market, an up-to-date analysis

Main Conference 24 to 25 April 2012

Pre-Conference Workshop 23 April 2012

Post-Conference Workshop 26 April 2012

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Overview

Neoedge is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Global Gas & LNG Summit 2012. This summit comes after a successful roll out of its premier event in 2011 and has been one of Neoedge’s most sought after events. This year will feature key gas & LNG expert speakers from the global arena, sharing expert insights, views, perspectives and analysis of the best practices, strategies, techniques, technologies, and innovations in this ever changing energy market.

What you can expect from the Global Gas & LNG Summit 2012:

• Stand alone case presentations by top notch speakers from various emerging and established gas & LNG players in the global arena
• Interactive Panel Discussions of key themes
• Open Questions & Answer with delegates
• Pre and Post Conference Workshops on April 23 & 26
• Great networking platform for regional and international Gas & LNG players
• Exhibition area
• Cocktail Reception
• Lucky Draw at the end of Main Conference
• Awards for Best Speaker, Best Delegate & Chairperson

Past Attendees to Neoedge’s Global Gas & LNG Summit includes:

• Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co Ltd (ADGAS)
• CMX Caspian and Gulf Consultants Ltd
• ConocoPhillips International
• EconGas
• ECOWAS Commission
• Gas Exporting Countries Forum
• Gas Natural Fenosa
• Genser Power Ghana Limited
• GLNG Operations Pty Ltd
• World Bank / Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR)
• Global Strategy Consulting Pte Ltd
• Kot Addu Power Company Ltd
• Lamprell Energy
• LXL LLP
• Ministry of Oil & Gas Oman
• National Grid UK
• Nigeria LNG Limited
• Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
• National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS)
• National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
• O.T. Otis Engineering
• OLT Offshore LNG Toscana S.p.A.
• Petrofac International
• Platts
• PT Nusantara Regas
• PT Pertamina (Persero)
• Qatargas Operating Company Limited
• Saif Power Limited
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)
• Shaw Consultants International
• Shell Markets (Middle East) Ltd
• Simmons & Simmons
• The Energy Contract Company
• Volta River Authority
• Woodside Energy Ltd
• Zorlu Dogal Gaz

Key Benefits

Learn from expert practitioners and high profile delegates in the global gas & LNG market today!

NEOEDGE is proud to announce its 2^ND ANNUAL GLOBAL GAS & LNG SUMMIT 2012 on the 24 & 25 April 2012 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. We will be exploring in-depth insights of major domestic and international markets addressing the best strategies, approaches, techniques, innovations as well as the current and future market of gas & LNG in the recent economic, social, environmental and political conditions. This summit will also serve as a platform for all national, international and independent companies to network and share business ideas and experiences.

Recognizing such emerging business potentials and pressing challenges, the Global Gas & LNG Summit 2012, carefully researched and organized by Neoedge in Singapore, will provide all international and local companies an in-time and efficient platform of learning, networking and partnership building for your corporate advantage in the increasingly vibrant and fierce market. 

Who Should Attend          

President, Managing Director, Director, General Manager, Manager, Chief Financial Officers and Head of 

• Government Officials
• Operations
• Business Development
• Strategic Planning & Business Unit
• Projects Development & Engineering
• Buyers, Sellers & Distributors
• Finance & Investment Officers
• Technology Officers
• Partners & Investors
• Legal Department
• Price Analyst
• Research & Development Department
• Risk Analyst
• Commercial Department
• Production / Plant / Equipment
• Arbitrators
• Contractors
• Safety & Security
• Traders and Trade Organizations
• Service Companies

From various industries and sectors including 

·         Government Bodies & Regulatory Bodies

·         National Oil Corporation

·         International Oil Corporation

·         Independent Exploration & Production Companies

·         Energy Consulting Firms

·         Power Generations Company / Utilities Companies

·         Consultants, Research Firms, Law Firms and Academics

·         Logistic, Transportation & Infrastructure Companies

·         Service Companies

For Enquiries on the Agenda and Registration, please contact: Rilla Eas, Marketing Manager

Phone: +65 6557 9183

Email: rilla.eas@neo-edge.com

Event Announcement: Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) Master Class

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

PRODUCTION SHARING CONTRACTS (PSC) MASTER CLASS

A most comprehensive & up-to-date course on successful Production Sharing Contracts Management in the oil & gas industry

05 to 08 March 2012

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Overview

Effective training in today’s fast developing petroleum market is essential if relevant executives in both the public and private sectors are to create and implement the optimum regulatory and commercial environment for revenue and profit maximisation. Nowhere is this more important than in the development and negotiation of Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs), a critical part of global petroleum exploration, production and commercialization.

The purpose of a PSC is to facilitate the finding and commercialisation of deposits of oil and gas. However, production sharing is not the only regime used for that purpose, nor, within a production sharing regime, is the PSC the only instrument used; and, as with all such regimes, production sharing, and each individual PSC, exists within a historical, geopolitical and legal framework, and a global market, that informs its principles and its detailed implementation. It is imperative for relevant executives in both government and private sectors to understand the ever-changing impact of these forces on the PSC, and the PSC’s position and role among the many key factors needed for successful oil and gas commercialisation.

Key Benefits

Key issues to be addressed in depth:

• Being updated of the latest development in Oil & Gas commercialization
• Examining the relationship of PSC, concession, and other regimes in the right to explore and produce
• Analysing the relationship of PSC to industry exploration & production agreement
• Unitisation and its alternatives, and the peculiar problems of different fiscal, regulatory and administrative regimes, and their solutions
• Analysing the relationship of PSC to construction and field service contracts – who really bears the risk of a wild well?
• Analysing the relationship of PSC to industry transportation & sales agreement
• Examining the PSC, IPPs and other downstream investments
• Exploring the role of PSC in financing of commercialization
• Investigating PSC, Resource Rent & Petroleum Economics
• Underlying PSC as an administrative tools
• Constructing PSC as an investment tool
• Examining a PSC through case study

Who Should Attend          

All those involved in the Production Sharing Contract implementation:

• International & Government Negotiator

• Corporate Planner

• Contract / Agreements Managers / Specialists

• E & P Professionals / Managers

• Policy Analyst

• Legal Advisors

• Business Development Managers

• Commercial Managers

• Finance Directors & Managers / Controllers / Auditors

• Business & Accounting Analyst

• Tax & Finance Advisors

• Operation Manager

• Compliance Officers

• Projects Manager / Owners / Engineers

• Loan Officers

• Economist

• Investors

Types of organizations

• Government Bodies

• National Oil Corporation

• International Oil Corporation

• Independent Exploration & Production Companies

• Consultant firms

• Logistic, Transportation & Infrastructure Companies

• Technology/Engineering/Equipment firms/suppliers

• Investment banks / Investors / financiers / VC / Funds

• Insurance / Risk management companies

For Enquiries on the Agenda and Registration, please contact: Rilla Eas, Marketing Manager

Phone: +65 6557 9183

Email: rilla.eas@neo-edge.com

Event Announcement: Formation Damage Prevention & Treatment

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

FORMATION DAMAGE PREVENTION & TREATMENT

05 to 08 March 2012

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Overview

The purpose of this workshop/course is to gain adequate knowledge in formation damage. This workshop will take us through the types and mechanics of formation damage, their preventions and treatments.

The economics of a project development may be jeopardised by failure to obtain the production target. Economics relies on a limited number of highly productive wells.

Formation damage is an impairment of reservoir permeability around the well bore, leading to low or no well production or injection. There are two types of Formation Damage namely: Pore/pore throat size physical reduction and relative permeability reduction. Formation damage is often quantified by “Skin” factor. Skin is strictly a measure of an excess pressure in the producing formation as fluids flow into a well. This excess pressure drop can occur from one or several of a wide variety of causes such as drilling mud, cement and completion fluid filtrate invasion, solids invasion, perforating damage, fines migration, formation compaction, swelling clays, asphaltene/paraffin deposition, scale precipitation, emulsions, reservoir compaction, relative permeability effects, effects of stimulation treatments, etc. Therefore, it is evident that formation damage problems are caused by the nature of our activities during the cause of interactions with our wells.

The critical factor from a well completion and intervention standpoint is to limit, where possible, the creation of damage (especially severe plugging in the near wellbore area). This means, to avoid plugging of the perforations in a cased hole completion and to avoid plugging of the formation face in an open-hole completion. This workshop will educate us on how to avoid plugging and how to restore wells with plugging problems in the perforations or formation face.

Beyond taking steps to eliminate severe permeability reduction in the near wellbore area, the next step is to obtain the best communication of the wellbore with the virgin formation. Therefore, fluids selection is critical as damage to the reservoir can result in impaired production and substantial loss of revenue to the Operator. It has resulted in increased reliance on formation damage testing to select the appropriate fluid and/or clean-up technique. This workshop has been designed to cover different well stimulation techniques to achieve the best reservoir-wellbore communications.

Our discussions will be extended to remedial solutions to water shut-off, gas shut-off and scale problems in the oil and gas industry. 

Key Benefits

The advantage of attending this workshop/course includes:

• Understanding the effect of formation damage on revenue to the operator
• Understanding the mechanism of formation damage
• Understanding formation lab tests and interpretation
• Understanding the impact of skin on productivity for both vertical and horizontal wells
• How to select the best fluid (less damaging) at every phase of the well development: drilling and completion, cementing, perforating, stimulation, gravel packing, workover, production and injection operations
• How to diagnose formation damage problems
• How to apply the best treatment to a sandstone and carbonate reservoir
• How to stimulate to tight reservoir and high permeability reservoir

Who Should Attend          

The target audience for this course includes: 

• Completion Engineer / Superintendent
• Well Intervention Engineer / Site Leader / Site Manager
• Production Engineer / Manager / Superintendent
• Petroleum Engineer
• Reservoir Engineer
• Drilling Engineer / Superintendent / Site Manager
• Cross-Discipline Training
• Oil and Gas Project Evaluator
• Oil and Gas Industry Drilling/Completion/Intervention Service Providers

For Enquiries on the Agenda and Registration, please contact: Rilla Eas, Marketing Manager

Phone: +65 6557 9183

Email: rilla.eas@neo-edge.com