Professional development courses: practical knowledge and skills for specialists, managers, and technical professionals
Target audience:
The courses are designed for specialists, engineers, managers, HR professionals, lawyers, financial analysts, IT experts, and other corporate employees in the oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, and related industries.
Each course can be customized in terms of duration (2 to 5 days), complexity level (basic or advanced), and delivery format (online or in-person, upon request from the client company). Participants may choose individual topics or complete the entire thematic track.
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Leadership
1. Leadership in action: enhancing personal managerial effectiveness
2. Strategic thinking for managers
3. Decision-making in uncertainty
4. Executive personal brand: influence, authority, trust
5. Results orientation: focus on goals and priorities
6. Leader and team: inspiring and developing people
7. Employee motivation: tools and practices of effective leadership
8. Delegation as a tool for team development
9. Developmental leadership: mentoring over micromanaging
10. Teambuilding as a strategic engagement tool
11. Public speaking for leaders: confidence, structure, impact
12. Business communication mastery: persuasion, presentation, influence
13. Psychology of influence and tough negotiations
14. Conflict management in teams
15. Change management: team adaptation and engagement
16. Time management and personal productivity for leaders
17. Contemporary leadership in practice: core managerial competencies
18. Development of management and communication skills
Project Management
1. Project management fundamentals
2. Project management: best practices and tools
3. Logistics and supply chain in manufacturing
4. Warehouse operations management
Investment and Industry-Specific Projects
1. Investment project management
2. Project management in the oil & gas industry
3. Production planning in oil & gas processing
4. Investment attractiveness of mineral resources
5. Pipeline systems project management
6. Global oil market: analysis and strategy
Finance and Analytics
1. Finance for non-financial professionals
2. Finance for executives
3. Financial reporting and interrelations
4. Financial health diagnostics
5. Budgeting and forecasting
6. Management accounting and pricing
7. Accounts receivable and credit policy
8. Cost control and optimization
9. Cash flow planning and control
10. Finance in the oil & gas sector
11. Financial risk: assessment and management
12. Financial and organizational structure: responsibility centers
13. Financial cycle and settlements
14. Economics of production processes
15. Business planning and investment analysis
16. Investment project performance
17. Oil & gas project evaluation
18. Geological and economic assessment of subsurface resources
19. Commodity market pricing
Legal Courses
1. Labor law in Kazakhstan: practice and updates
2. Employer risks in contract termination
3. Labor disputes: conciliation commissions and court practice
4. Contract law and arbitration
5. Corporate law and company interest protection
6. Arbitration clauses in complex contracts
7. Contract enforcement in construction and services
8. Contract timelines: liability and legal practice
9. Party liability in construction projects
10. Construction disputes: causes and resolution
11. Risk management in construction projects
12. Legal support for international construction projects
13. Insurance in design and construction
14. Legal aspects of investment construction projects
15. Construction consortia: regulation and practice
16. Customs regulations: practice and updates
17. Customs administration specialist training
18. WTO law and local content in oil & gas
19. Working with international contractors: legal risks
20. Subsoil use taxation
21. VAT and tax refunds: procedures and common errors
22. Environmental Code and EMS
23. Greenhouse gases and corporate responsibility
24. Subsoil use contracts: penalties and claims
Human Resource Management and HR
1. Average salary calculation: compensation and incentives
2. Workforce organization for rotational shifts
3. Allowances, bonuses, and premiums
4. Employee guarantees and compensation
5. Workplace accident investigations
6. Labor dispute resolution through conciliation
7. HR documentation: rules and best practices
8. HR recordkeeping amid legislative changes
9. Administration from hiring to termination
10. Business trip arrangements
11. Electronic employment contracts
12. Archiving and document preparation
13. Records management by standard rules
14. Records in Kazakh and Russian
15. Changes in document management
16. KPIs and HR analytics in HR practice
17. Business correspondence: style, format, structure
18. Іскерлік хат алмасу: тәжірибе мен ережелер (Kazakh)
19. Technical translation to/from Kazakh
20. Permit documentation: preparation and extension
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{spoiler=TECHNICAL DISCIPLINES}
Geology and Geophysics of Oil & Gas Fields
1. Oil & gas geology: modern reservoir studies
2. Basics of geology and mining
3. Lithofacies and formation analysis of hydrocarbon-bearing strata
4. Sedimentology of reservoirs: modeling hydrocarbon systems
5. Carbonate reservoirs: formation conditions and properties
6. Reservoir geological modeling
7. Geological-hydrodynamic modeling
8. Well logging and geophysical data interpretation
9. Geophysical well monitoring and repair
10. Seismic exploration: development technologies and interpretation
11. Surface seismic survey design
12. Geological structure forecasting from seismic data
Drilling and Well Completion
1. Modern drilling rigs and equipment
2. BOP equipment and drilling safety
3. Stuck pipe prevention and removal
4. Kick detection and elimination
5. Well cementing: technologies and calculations
6. Primary cementing: theory and practice
7. Drilling and cement slurry systems
8. Directional and horizontal drilling: technologies and innovations
9. Well completion: equipment and sustainable waste management
Field Development and Operation
1. EOR techniques and recovery enhancement
2. Reservoir pressure maintenance
3. Reservoir development management
4. ESPs: operation, calculation, regimes
5. Artificial lift under complex conditions
6. Production optimization: pumps, rod pumps, gas lift, ESPs
7. Gathering, treatment, and transportation of production
8. Hydraulic fracturing, sidetracks, horizontal wells
9. Well testing and killing
10. Well start-up and flow initiation
Well Survey and Workover
1. Reservoir hydrodynamic testing
2. Inflow and loss diagnostics
3. Integrated geophysical-hydrodynamic surveys
4. Dynamometer testing for field operators
5. Major well workovers
6. Water shut-off and control
7. Drilling and workover troubleshooting
8. Downhole operations: planning and execution
Oil & Gas Transportation and Storage
1. Pipeline design and operation
2. Hydraulics and pipeline system modes
3. Pumping equipment at stations
4. Corrosion protection and cathodic systems
5. Pipeline diagnostics and repair
6. Oil metering and metrological support
7. Loss minimization in transportation and storage
8. Pipeline dispatching
9. Oil product transportation and delivery
10. Digital oil logistics monitoring
Environment, Labor Safety, and Subsoil Use
1. Environmental compliance: standards and practice
2. New Environmental Code and management systems
3. Occupational health and safety management
4. Occupational hygiene and industrial sanitation
5. Subsoil use legislation: application practice
6. Subsoil use reporting: ESGU, EITI, R&D
Oil & Gas Economics and Management
1. Economics of oil & gas enterprises: production chain
2. Low-profit project evaluation
3. Cost management and optimization
4. Financial modeling: NPV, IRR
5. Labor standards and workforce planning
6. Payroll calculation: Labor Code compliance
7. Overview of tax and labor law changes
8. Corporate income tax and VAT returns: step-by-step practice
9. IFRS standards: 9, 15, 16
Introductory Courses for Non-Specialists
1. Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
2. Oil & gas industry essentials: structure and key concepts
3. Hydrocarbons production for non-technical personnel
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{spoiler=INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES}
1. SCADA and visualization in industrial control systems
2. SQL and fundamentals of DBMS
3. OLAP and BI systems
4. ETL and integration solutions
5. Cryptographic and technical information protection
6. DLP, HSM, Sandbox in corporate cybersecurity
7. Personal data protection and risk assessment
8. DCS: architecture and implementation
9. Big Data: Python/Spark fundamentals
10. Data center operations: infrastructure, design, monitoring
11. IT infrastructure resilience
12. Cloud technologies and security
13. DevOps, CI/CD, and automation
14. ITSM: implementation and support
15. Cyber resilience and incident response
16. Digital business transformation
17. AI and ML in business
18. Agile, Scrum, Kanban in IT projects
19. Data backups and recovery
20. API and systems integration
21. Web and mobile development
22. IT systems audit and vulnerability management
23. Network security
24. Remote work security
25. Blockchain: security and business application
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