KEYFACT Energy
Online short courses for energy careers
Access Masters-level teaching and build postgraduate qualifications with our short online energy courses.
- Earn qualifications while you work.
- Build respected qualifications one short course at a time.
- Upskill or retrain with experts in energy engineering, law, economics and more.
Co-operative Contracts in the Oil and Gas Industry
Learning mode: Online
Study level: Postgraduate SCQF Level 11
Credits: 15
Duration: 12 weeks
Time commitment: 10 - 15 hours per week
Start date: 23 September 2024
Develop the specialist skills you need to compete globally within oil and gas law. Earn credits towards an LLM with this flexible online contract law course.
This course provides a detailed overview of the contracts that govern the commercial relationship between oil and gas companies when they form consortia to bid for and develop oil and gas assets.
The energy industry is a very competitive one – but it’s also highly collaborative. Oil and gas companies increasingly seek collaborative routes to exploration and production. When the costs of failure are so high, companies in this sector tend to spread their risk exposure across projects with a variety of partners.
You’ll learn what it takes to build the contracts necessary for these co-venturing partners to collaborate.
Data Science: From Data to Insight
Learning mode: Online
Study level: Postgraduate SCQF Level 11
Credits: 15
Duration: 15 weeks (including 3-week spring holiday)
Time commitment: 10 - 15 hours per week
Start date: 27 January 2025
Data science spans information and computational science, mathematics, and statistics.
It seeks to identify and understand phenomena as captured in structured or unstructured data.
Train in the data science techniques that are revolutionising the way we use data.
- Learn how to handle large datasets and extract meaningful insights from data.
- Explore the benefits these techniques can bring to businesses across all sectors.
- Generate data-driven predictions and recommendations to optimise processes, workflows, and equipment use.
Join this online data science course and train in the latest data science techniques. Learn to use big data to make better business decisions with this flexible short course.
Decommissioning of Offshore Installations: Commercial Issues
Learning mode: Online
Study level: Postgraduate SCQF Level 11
Credits: 15
Duration: 15 weeks (including 3-week spring holiday)
Time commitment: 10 - 15 hours per week
Start date: 27 January 2025
This distance-learning decommissioning course will give you a comprehensive overview of the contractual and commercial issues that arise when decommissioning offshore installations.
You’ll use the UK as an example to consider the commercial context for decommissioning, in light of the MER UK strategy – Maximising the Economic Recovery of hydrocarbons. You’ll consider the supply chain and the perspectives of the operator and contractors.
Focusing on contracts, you’ll cover key contractual clauses and how risk is allocated. You’ll examine innovative and alternative contracting models, including turnkey and campaign contracting strategies.
You’ll also look at decommissioning costs, including:
- the tax implications of decommissioning
- tax stability
- portability of tax history
- decommissioning cost deeds
- the interaction between decommissioning and the law of insolvency.
KeyFacts Energy Industry Directory: University of Aberdeen l KeyFacts Energy news: University
UNIVERSITY SPONSORSHIP
Full access to 'Energy Country Review' for staff and students at University of Aberdeen, Department of Geology and Geophysics has been sponsored by Amplus Energy.