Course Overview

Poor measurement and allocation process accounts for the major losses in the oil and gas industry. According to Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) audit reports 2014-2023, Nigeria lost over 362Million barrels of crude oil due to poor metering and allocation with additional 110Million barrels from production deferment. The urgency to address this impact is key.
Accurate production data for effective monitoring and allocation has always been a challenge to efficient well, reservoir and facilities management in the oil and gas industry. Oil and Gas Hydrocarbon Accounting principally involves, allocation of volumes, storage of data, effective production deferment administration and data reporting. In almost all assets globally, metering and production allocation process has always been a challenge, and this course is designed to address and manage such limitations. There are several factors that influence metering but majorly the linearity, the turndown ratio and the repeatability are key. This course will equally highlight some of these challenges with mitigations and come up with how it fits into the overall HCA process in order to facilitate improved definition, selection, design, operation and troubleshooting of production numbers or data.
Training and retraining of domain experts have been identified as crucial in fully understanding the concept and process of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering. Hence, this course will elicit the fundamentals of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering across assets, while also highlighting the common challenges encountered during this process and how to mitigate them in future HCA processes.

Course Outline

Principles of Hydrocarbon Accounting

• Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering Highlights
• What’s Hydrocarbon Accounting Framework?
• Implementing Hydrocarbon Accounting Processes
• Data Management
• Well Test Processes
• Strategic Management of Hydrocarbon Accounting Processes

Crude-Oil Terminal Cargo Administration

• Requirements for Export (Class-One) Metering Systems
• Managing Crude-oil Stock Demurrage & Tank-top Situations
• Principles of Stock Nomination & Export Cargo Management
• Commercial (Sales) Curtailments Meetings Strategies
• Strategies for effective deferment management
• Managing Crude-Oil Stocks through the 90days Production Plan
• Production Forecasting (Nominations)

Hydrocarbon Accounting Export Operations

• (Pre)Export Readiness Operations
• Barging (Shipping) Operations
• Managing Bill of Laden & Outturn Reports
• Crude Oil Export Operations
• Export Operations Participating Parties
• Export Document Instructions (DI)
• Case Studies

Impact of Petroleum Industry Act 2021 in Metering Systems

• Hydrocarbon Measurement Standards, Provisions & Requirements
• Hydrocarbon Accounting Challenges Under PIA 2021
• Requirements of Metering Service Providers
• Dealing with Faulty or Damaged Measurement Systems
• Metering Agreements Between Parties
• Commercial Implication of HCA

Performance Review

• General Course Review
• Assessment of Participants
• Feedback
• Closing Remarks

Course Objectives

By the end of this Course, participants will be able to:

• Managing the concept of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Fiscal Metering.
• Know the key elements for effective Hydrocarbon Accounting Management Profile.
• Provide solutions on identified Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering challenges.
• Fully engage relevant stakeholders and partners in the HCA process.
• Formulate sustainable model in the Hydrocarbon Accounting Environment.

Relevant Audience

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Senior Engineers
• Commercial & Legal Teams
• Asset Support Managers
• Project Managers
• WRFM Managers
• Investors & Auditors
• Production Operations Manager
• Senior Process Engineers
• Field Production Supervisors / Superintendents
• Production Engineers
• Asset Managers
• Hydrocarbon Accounting Managers
• Snr. Reservoir Engineers
• Planning Managers
• Production Curtailment Managers
• Snr Production Accountants
• Production Schedulers & Curtailment Teams
• Snr Production Chemist

Delivery Method

This is a Masterclass delivered in a workshop format with strong emphasis on industry best practice alongside an interactive approach from all participants.

The training tutors are highly seasoned industry experts and have designed this course to help participants fully understand the concept of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering in the present-day Energy Industry.
To get more details on the course outline and curriculum, please kindly contact us at training@suneses-energy.com or call +234 (0) 909 999 3650.

Other Details

Location: Uyo, Nigeria
Cost: ₦2,500,000.00 (US$1,650) per participant (Large-Pool Registration attracts discount)
Date: 15th - 19th June, 2026 (0900-1600hrs daily)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Cost: ₦2,500,000.00 (US$1,650) per participant (Large-Pool Registration attracts discount)
Date: 16th - 20th November, 2026 (0900-1600hrs daily)

THE COURSE FEE COVERS:
Experts Facilitation, Buffet Lunch, Tea breaks, Course Manual, Branded Writing Materials, Certificate, Optional Tour (only in Uyo), Branded Souvenir, and Worldclass Conducive Learning Environment.

Training Team:
Suneses Energy Limited
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: +234 (0) 909 999 3650

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