AGR TRACS Training LtdUnion Plaza, 1 Union WyndAberdeen AB10 1SLScotland, UKTel: +44 (0)1224 629000Fax: +44 (0)1224 629001

Karenslyst allé 40278 OsloNorwayTel: +47 24 06 11 11Fax: +47 24 06 10 99

www.agr-ps.com

Mark BentleyDirector, AGR TRACS Training

mark.bentley@agr-ps.com

AGR Petroleum ServicesAGR Petroleum Services is part of AGR Group,

which is a leading provider of essential services and

technologies to the international oil and gas industry,

AGR Group has three operating divisions:

Petroleum Services

Drilling Services

Field Operations

Training for growth

Oil & Gas Training Services

“By tailoring content to specific client needs, AGR TRACS Training delivers courses and programmes that are superior to the standard offered in the marketplace. TRACS training style, which embraces experiential learning and interactive delivery, combined with a history of teaching in 45 countries, enables us to offer distinct learning and development programmes globally.”

Mark Bentley Director

AGR TRACS Training

Training on every continent… …except Antarctica.

TRACS Training was established in 1992 and quickly developed a training portfolio with

a global reach. Tailored courses and programmes have now been run in 45 countries and

more than 20,000 people have taken part in TRACS Training courses. Courses have

been organised from offices in Aberdeen, London, Perth and Moscow, and have also

been translated into Russian.

In 2008 TRACS became part of AGR Petroleum Services and has been rebranded as

AGR TRACS Training, offering additional course coverage in Scandinavia, the Americas

and Asia through our offices in Oslo, Houston, Dubai and Almaty.

The training portfolio now extends to 50 courses, with more than 100 courses being

run annually by a team of over 40 tutors. Cross-disciplinary programmes are often run

by two tutors with complementary technical expertise, and some courses are run in a

workshop style for groups of up to 100.

History

Our training courses are distinguished from the industry standard by being tailored to the specific needs of a client audience.

Ethos

Using the AGR TRACS Training library as a

starting point, the content of the courses

together with their timing and location is

specified in discussion with the training

specialists from the client company.

Courses can also be arranged for multiple

clients if required.

Our ethos is therefore to dedicate our

effort to the design of a tailored product.

We believe the success of a course is

ultimately determined not only by good

delivery but also by appropriate targeting

to the audience.

We can achieve this because, unlike many

other training providers, most of the

course material is developed and owned

by us. Moreover, many of the staff and

associates who make up the tutor group

are colleagues and have built up experience

as a tutor group, developing a shared

style and making the AGR TRACS Training

brand unique.

To ensure our material stays up-to-date,

our tutors are also practising E&P

consultants in their own right,

and the tutor group includes technical

authors and industry-recognised

Distinguished Lecturers.

We believe the success of a course is ultimately determined not only by good delivery but also by tailored design

Tailored training

Training Series

Early Development

The Early Development Series is designed for groups of new entrants to the industry such as graduate intake. The courses are typically multi-disciplinary in content and audience, and may extend to complete course programmes. The courses typically include a team-building component.

Exploration and Production Overview

The E&P Overview Series is aimed at audiences, often non-technical, looking for a succinct summary of the E&P business. The courses are typically short (one-to-three days) but can range in duration from one week down to one hour.

Our material is divided into several Training Series, with each Series having a distinct character and typical course groupings. New courses, tailored to clients’ requests, can be offered within any of these Series.

Reservoir

The Reservoir Series includes the technical subsurface courses from geophysics through to geology, petrophysics and reservoir engineering. These can be given as courses for ‘other disciplines’ as well as introductory-level courses within-discipline.

Wells

The Wells Series includes the wells-based technical courses from completion design through to introductory drilling and well planning. These are offered for non-wells disciplines in addition to drilling and completions staff.

Business and Risk

The Business and Risk Series embraces the non-technical business courses such as petroleum economics and risk analysis, strategy and planning. These have been run both as traditional classroom courses and as workshop-style programmes, often for large groups (50+).

Open Air

The Open Air Series takes training events to outdoor locations, combining classroom teaching with sessions on rock outcrops which serve as reservoir analogues. The teaching is pitched at multi-disciplinary audiences as well as geoscience groups. Most courses from the other Series can be offered in this format.

Coaching

The Coaching Series was designed to address the needs of individuals or teams for direct coaching involving material from any of the Series described above. These are truly tailored events and have been run as one-off courses or as a set of short sessions.

Master Class

The Master Class Series gathers together a set of specialist courses for experienced staff. The courses are industry-leading and tutored by individuals who are at the forefront of their respective disciplines. These are offered both as lecture-based or workshop-style training courses.

Instructional Design

We assist in the design of training programmes for both national and independent oil companies.

Training Consultancy

Consultancy can take the form of advice

on programme content and delivery style

through to the development of the course

material itself. In these cases the material

can be owned by the client company with

technical content specific to that company.

It can thus be reserved for their internal use.

The material can be packaged for the client

company with guidelines on instruction,

and ‘train-the-trainer’ programmes may

be run for client staff to familiarise

themselves with the new material.

The programmes may also subsequently be

delivered by our tutors, or with our tutors

working alongside client company staff.

We also recognise that learning

programmes create a forum for

networking and technical exchange. We

therefore organise training programmes

on behalf of clients to support them in

developing new markets and in building

business relationships with new clients.

Training consultancy has been delivered since 1992 to national oil companies in the Middle East and SE Asia, and in major Western-based multinationals.

Mark Bramwell PhD

Main Series tutoring: Reservoir, Early Development, E&P Overview, Open Air

Industry experience: 24 years, geoscience

Career background: Shell, KUFPEC and TRACS

Personal: Programme manager for the Early Development Series

Runar Gundesø MSc

Main Series tutoring: Reservoir

Industry experience: 25 years, geoscience

Career background: Norsk Hydro, PGS, RES and AGR

Personal: New business development, Scandinavia

Mark Cook BSc, MBA

Main Series tutoring: Early Development, Business & Risk

Industry experience: 27 years, reservoir engineering

Career background: Shell and TRACS

Personal: Author, ‘Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production’, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, AGR VP

Mark Bentley PhD

Main Series tutoring: Reservoir, E&P Overview, Open Air and Master Class

Industry experience: 23 years, geoscience

Career background: Shell and TRACS

Personal: SPE and EAGE Distinguished Lecturer, AGR TRACS Training Director

Eivind Damsleth MSc

Main series tutoring: Business & Risk, Master Class

Industry experience: 35 years, statistics, risk and project management

Career background: Norwegian Computing Centre, Norsk Hydro, Saga and AGR

Personal: Statistics advisor

People

Mark Graham BSc

Main Series tutoring: Master Class

Industry experience: 31 years, petroleum engineering and economics

Career background: Schlumberger, Shell and TRACS

Personal: Author, ‘Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production’, AGR Director

The tutor group of over 40 experienced staff members and close associates work from AGR offices in Aberdeen, Oslo, London, Houston, Moscow, Almaty, Dubai and Perth. The profiles below introduce a selection of the group currently involved in the development and delivery of new course material and in the organisation and maintenance of the course portfolio.

Key course tutors are presented in the course-specific outlines.

Gudmund Olsen MSc

Main series tutoring: Reservoir, E&P Overview

Industry experience: 25 years, reservoir engineer

Career background: Norsk Hydro, AGR

Personal: Project and section manager

Frank Jahn BSc

Main series tutoring: E&P Overview, Early Development, Reservoir

Industry experience: 29 years, geoscience

Career background: Shell, TRACS, WorleyParsons, Woodside

Personal: Author, ‘Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production’, new business development, Middle East

Jonathan Bellarby MSc

Main Series tutoring: Wells, Early Development

Industry experience: 23 years, well technology

Career background: BP, ICE and TRACS

Personal: Author, ‘Well Completion Design’

John Gallivan PhD

Main Series tutoring: Reservoir, Business & Risk, Master Class

Industry experience: 30 years, reservoir and petroleum engineering, economics

Career background: BNOC, Britoil, BP, Heriot-Watt and TRACS

Personal: AGR Director, Moscow

Mahmood Akbar MSc

Main Series tutoring: Reservoir, Wells, Master Class

Industry experience: 21 years, reservoir engineering

Career background: Phillips Petroleum, Total, Saga Petroleum and AGR

Personal: SPE-Oslo board director

Jon Suller BSc

Main Series tutoring: Early Development, Business & Risk

Industry experience: 28 years, commercial, petroleum engineering

Career background: BP, Gas Strategies and TRACS

Personal: Course development and new business development, SE Asia

What our clients say

“Thank you for one of the most thought-provoking geomodelling courses I have attended in recent years. I have taken an enormous amount away from this session and thank you also for your time and energy.”

GeoscientistConocoPhillips

“I would like to thank you for producing a tremendous two weeks of geoscience training for our geoscientists. It was great to hear how positive the group were on the course and for the significant impact it had on individuals, in their understanding of themselves and geoscience.”

Team leader BP

“I greatly appreciated your contribution to our programme for new graduates and mature hires… it was a very dynamic programme of work-place learning which we adapted as we went along. You did a great job of identifying needs, and creating and then pulling together the elements of the programme. This went well beyond my expectations.”

TeamleaderShell

“As usual, the scores on the evaluation forms are very good. This is also my impression from speaking to some of the participants. They all say that you are ’gifted’ when it comes to presenting the material in an intuitive, interesting and useful manner.”

Training co-ordinator Statoil

In total harmony with client needs and interests

ReachAGR TRACS Training has a global reach

You specify the location, we deliver the course or programme

AGR offices

Training course locations

Lesley Parkinson – Training Co-ordinatorCourse scheduling, client contact, materials and logistics, across all Series

Fiona Swapp – Graphic DesignDesign and development of course materials across all Series