MBA (International Oil & Gas Management) 12 months full-time
This programme consists of a deliberate blend of business and management studies which has been created to run alongside a range of practical, skills-based activities and an assortment of student-centred extracurricular opportunities. The programme uniquely contextualises the study within the petroleum industry from beginning to end, ensuring that graduates of the programme can "hit the ground running" in management roles in the industry. Guest speaker programmes and inputs from practitioners also enhance the student experience. A practical Health and Safety module will ensure that students attain a level of skill in an area of growing importance within the industry.
Who is it for?
This programme is designed for qualified graduates with work experience and with aspirations to work in or further develop skills already obtained in the oil and gas or related industries. The programme is designed to enhance sector related business, management and leadership skills and knowledge to prepare graduates for a challenging career in this high profile, fast changing and dynamic industry.
Structure of the Programme
All modules will be delivered on the campus of the University of Dundee in face-to-face mode. Self-study makes up a considerable proportion of the student’s learning experience. Formal and informal group work occurs in some modules.
The programme comprises:
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Induction Programme (20 credits)
The Induction Programme provides students with vital knowledge and skills before they embark of the main components of CEPMLP's taught Masters and Diploma programmes. CEPMLP students have a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds and the Induction Programme provides each student with a basic introduction to all the main disciplines included in the degrees programmes, namely law, economics, finance and geology. It also provides training in research methods.
Core Business and Management Modules
Economics for Business Managers (20 credits)
The module is aimed at presenting and developing practical applications of economic theory and analytical tools to business decisions. The emphasis is on the study of the production decisions, the interaction of firms in different market structures, and the international financial market. Real world examples from the energy industries will be utilized to demonstrate the theoretical models developed in the class.
Foundation Financial Accounting (10 credits)
The principal aim of this course is to give an appropriate understanding of the published accounts of a company and their underlying principles, so that an effective contribution may be given to the senior financial management of an organisation. Particular emphasis is given to accounts of the extractive industries.
International Law of Natural Resources and Energy (20 credits)
The main objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts and specific legal and jurisdictional issues in the field of international and transboundary natural resources. The emphasis is on ensuring a proper understanding of the existing legal mechanisms and international regimes applicable to various types of natural resources located beyond States’ jurisdiction or control.
Introduction to Finance (10 credits)
This module will introduce students to the complexities of business finance and aim to give them an understanding of the basic financial issues business managers in the energy and extractive industries are required to consider in the decision-making process. All managers, in all types of organisations, have to be constantly aware of the financial implications of decisions being made, including sources and cost of finance, return on investment and the effective management of working capital requirements. The module is designed to give students an appreciation of issues of this nature they will confront as managers and to give them the confidence in the understanding of finance to be able to ensure the correct financial information is available to them to allow for well informed decision making.
Management in Knowledge Intensive Industries (20 credits)
This module will develop the student's critical understanding and application of models, approaches and tools for the management of complex knowledge in an organisational context. On completion of the module, the successful student will be able to demonstrate critical understanding of the business context, approaches and effective organisational behaviours underpinning the practice of management in knowledge intensive organisations.
Strategic Management & Organisational Analysis (20 credits)
This module will encourage a critical and reflexive orientation to the understanding of successful approaches to strategic management and organisational analysis and develop understanding of the requirements for effective executive and organisational analyses and decision making in an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. The module will develop an appreciation of basic concepts and essential strategic and organisational management tools for understanding data and analysing decisions. Students will learn the analytic skills needed to accomplish, defend and critique a business analysis.
Specialist Option Modules- a minimum of 20 credits from:
Business Strategy in the Extractive Industries (20 credits)
The main objective of the course is to provide an inter-disciplinary framework for the strategic analysis of firms and markets in the extractive industries. Drawing on core topics in the MBA curriculum, in particular on the Strategic Planning module, this module uses the field of corporate strategy to provide a series of opportunities for integrated analysis of strategies applied in the extractive industries.
Environmental Law and Policy for Natural Resources and Energy (20 credits)
The course deals with selected issues central to understanding international and national environmental policy and law related to production and consumption of natural resources and power generation. It addresses, in particular, environmental problems arising in connection with production and transportation of petroleum (both on-land and offshore), mining activities, use of nuclear energy, including production of uranium and disposal of radioactive wastes, and use of fossil fuels, including transboundary air pollution and global climate effects. A special emphasis is placed on the solutions for environmental problems provided by various national regulatory systems, in particular British and North American.
Financial and Project Analysis of Natural Resources and Energy Ventures (20 credits)
The main aim of this course is to introduce students into current methods of financial and project appraisal techniques that relate to natural resources and energy organisations. This is a practical course in which evaluation techniques and concepts are taught, such as discounted cash flow, internal rate of return and pay back period, which are applied to realistic scenarios, leading to the preparation of spreadsheets, their analysis and interpretation of results. The student should be able to recommend the appropriate appraisal techniques to a given business investment along with an appreciation of social and other non-financial features. Taxation and sources of finance are also introduced in this module, but any in-depth analyses of them can only be provided in other courses.
Project Management Process (20 credits)
This module is designed to bring to students a critical awareness of the tools and techniques of project management reflecting both the project nature of the energy, petroleum and mineral industries as well as the general trend for organisations to manage-by-project in an attempt to keep their work small and manageable. The module will give students both an appreciation of the distinct nature of project work as well as an appreciation of project management tools and techniques available to project managers at the different stages of projects. The module also provides students with an appreciation of the need for a 'project leadership' versus' general management / leadership' approach.
Public Policy for Sustainable Development in Natural Resource Rich Countries (20 credits)
This module provides students with an understanding of the typical policy challenges faced by countries endowed with natural resources and a critical awareness of the proposed causal mechanisms explaining variation in outcomes across these countries. The course covers the resource curse debate, theoretical approaches to public policy analysis and the practical policy challenges of turning resource wealth into positive development outcomes.
Integrative Modules - choice of 40 credits from:
Critical Business Analysis & Report (40 credits)
The Critical Business Analysis & Report builds on the academic skills developed in the CEPMLP MBA programmes and will provide the opportunity for students to link these with previous experience to develop and integrate critical skills of research and analysis in the practical context of a business related project.
Dissertation (40 credits)
The dissertation contributes to the achievement of the aims of the Masters degree namely:- to promote a deeper and critical understanding of selected areas relating to the specialisation of the student; to develop originality of thought and skills of research, analysis, argumentation and expression; to build upon, develop and integrate the knowledge and skills acquired in the taught modules.
Internship (40 credits)
The internship provides the student with the opportunity to apply in the workplace the knowledge and skills learnt at CEPMLP and to learn how professionals in the field perform their tasks.
Additional Modules to make up total requirement may be selected from PGSMP M Level Modules with Advisor of Studies approval .... view full list of module specifications.
