SMi Group's Oil & Gas Joint Ventures Masterclass Training in association with Malcolm Wells of Malwell Corporate Projects comes to London this December

1. About this masterclass
Effective partnership has long been identified by the oil and gas industry as a critical value proposition.
Paradoxically, within the industry, poor corporate communications and stakeholder/partner relations
are the greatest but least recognised threat to any successful joint venture or multiple stakeholder
project.
This workshop will explain how relationships can be managed effectively to turn potential wedges into
a value-generating, project-enabling common purpose.
Why should you attend
• Identify the key communication threats to your project and what can be done to mitigate them
• See how to turn a serious threat into a major project enabling asset
• Understand how to integrate a corporate communications and stakeholder/partner relations
management track into your overall project plan and run it cost-effectively
• Explore strategies to restore flawed relationships and recognise when something’s going wrong
• Appreciate how to reduce on-going risk in the initial negotiation and manage powerful corporate
cultures
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MC344
2013CENTRAL LONDON, UK
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Oil and Gas Joint Ventures
- Building enduring partnerships
10th
DEC
SMi Presents their 2013 masterclass on

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9.00 Welcome
9.05 Introduction
9.15 Corporate Affairs best practice in the energy
sector
9.45 The communications challenges of JVs and
multi-partner projects
10.30 Coffee
10.50 Adapting best practice to meet those
challenges – structures and processes
11.15 Why and how things go wrong
11.45 How to put them right
12.15 Question and answer/session summary
12.30 Close
About your masterclass leader:
Malcolm Wells has successfully managed and co-ordinated some of the most complex and diverse
alliances in the history of the oil and gas industry. These alliances have involved various combinations of
governments, NGO’s, trade unions and the corporate world. He has direct experience of the development
and management of multi-billion dollar energy projects on four continents and has considerable
experience of working for a range of multi-national organisations, including the United Nations and
NATO.
A winner of the Petroleum Economist’s ‘Communications Team of the Year Award’ in 2008, having been
Runner-Up in 2007, Malcolm now manages his own consultancy, Malwell Corporate Projects, supporting
a range of clients in the energy, defence, tourism and environmental sectors. The primary focus of
Malwell Corporate Projects is ‘enabling project success through Corporate Affairs excellence’ or, more
practically, ‘doing whatever needs to be done when you can see that it needs doing’.
Malcolm has worked for most of the major and super-majors, reporting to at least country CEO level, and
has managed the only two successful fiscal campaigns mounted by the UK oil and gas industry, including
the Climate Change Levy, which, among a wide range of challenges, required brokering an acceptable
position on climate change between Lord Browne’s BP and Lee Raymond’s Exxon.
Overview
Despite its potential to wreak havoc in expensive capital projects, management and project teams still tend to focus on
execution, technology and finance while the need to get aligned and stay aligned with partners and stakeholders is
often the neglected orphan who takes a terrible revenge. With an over-reliance placed on the strength of the original
idea and the agreements underpinning it to hold relationships together, all too often, critical communications
interfaces are neglected, messages are distorted and corporate cultures clash. The result is always delay and
increased cost and, often, litigation or even total venture collapse.
Paradoxically, this great threat, properly addressed, can be used to forge effective teams and organisations and drive
a project towards success. Critically, it doesn’t require expensive or resource intensive solutions.
Good project relations will take up some of your time. Bad project relations will take up all of your time. This workshop
is about getting it right.
Oil and Gas Joint Ventures
- Building enduring partnerships
HALF DAY PROGRAMME

3. Oil and Gas Joint Ventures - Ensuring an effective partnership
10th December 2013, Central London
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