Welcome to the Full-Time M.Sc. and Diploma in Energy Studies with Specialisation in Oil and Gas Management
The M.Sc. programme is designed for economists and non-economists who wish to gain and understanding of the economics of the international petroleum and energy industries. It is suitable for those aspiring to be analysts and advisers in the economic, commercial and financial aspects of the petroleum and energy industries.
Structure
The M.Sc. is made up of 200 credits as follows:
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The associated Diploma is made up of the Induction Programme plus an additional 120 module credits.
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Compulsory Modules
Energy Economics the Issues (20 credits)
The main aim is to equip the students with an understanding of how economic analysis can help inform and understand energy issues. This requires the students to be familiar both with the relevant economic analysis and technical dimensions of energy. In addition the course enables the student to become familiar with current issues in the industry.
Energy Economics the Tools (20 credits)
The main aim is to equip the students with an understanding of how economic analysis can help inform and understand energy issues. This requires the students to be familiar both with the relevant economic analysis and technical dimensions of energy. In addition the course enables the student to become familiar with current issues in the industry.
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 Modules
Candidates should choose a minimum of 60 modules from the list below:
Human Resources Management (20 credits)
This course aims to provide students with a strategic understanding and key skills in managing people in organizations. It focuses on the core human resource problems faced by all organizations, including culture change, the contribution of human resources to organizational performance and change, and the developing role of information and communication technologies (ICT), recruitment, selection and retention, human resource development and managing knowledge, motivation and performance management, compensation and rewards, the design of work, and employee relations.
Marketing (20 credits)
Acquire knowledge of current theories in marketing and understand their application to corporations in the public and private sectors in a global context.
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.
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.
Recommended Elective Modules
Candidates are advised to choose additional modules from what is available on the academic timetable subject to any restrictions that may apply.
Together with the core and compulsory modules above, excluding the Induction Programme they should add up to 140 for the M.Sc. or 120 credits for the Diploma.
M.Sc. Candidates
In addition to the Induction Programme plus the core and elective modules, M.Sc. candidates are required to complete an additional 40 credits as follows:
The Dissertation: Candidates are required to write a Dissertation of up to 15,000 words on a topic approved by an academic supervisor.
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An Internship: Candidates are required to source an organisation willing to offer a 3-month work placement, approved by an academic supervisor. The Internship includes the submission of a written report as part of the assessment.
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An extended PhD Proposal: Candidates who propose to follow up the M.Sc. with a PhD may, with the approval of an academic supervisor, submit a 10,000 word PhD proposal in lieu of the Dissertation.
