Corporate Social Responsibility in the Oil & Gas Industry

Course Overview

This Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Oil & Gas Industry training course addresses the raft of issues that face companies in the hydrocarbon industries. The global focus on climate change has cast the oil and gas industry as a problem sector. Disasters, oil spills and financial irregularities have all fed high-profile news stories that fuel public distrust and protest. Communities that rejoiced in the discovery of oil have sometimes grown disenchanted with the reality of its extraction and the infrastructure that grows to support it.

While some companies and host governments have handled matters deftly and with great strategic insight, this has only sometimes been the case. This training course will give you the skills to identify, monitor and manage issues affecting your organisation, map stakeholder interests and maintain positive stakeholder relationships within corporate policy and strategy framework.

Course Objectives

This training course will focus on the practical and theoretical aspects of risk, reputation, stakeholder management, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

After the training course, the participants will learn to:

• Conduct a reputational and communications audit
• Identify issues that impact your business and plan to monitor and manage them
• Develop a risk and crisis management plan
• Create a brand and reputation management strategy
• Develop a Corporate Social Responsibility Action Plan

Target Audience

It is suitable for a wide range of working professionals, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Specialists
• Communications Professionals
• PR and Corporate Affairs Professionals
• Marketing Professionals
• Corporate Strategists and Planners
• Project and Programme Managers

Training Methodology

This training course will provide a valuable exchange of knowledge, ideas, and experiences—Immerse in experiential activities, collaborative group exercises, and face-to-face networking opportunities with your peers. There will be an alternation between theoretical expositions and practical exercises – individual and in groups, analysis of case studies, directed debates with the group’s active participation, and simulations of representative situations of the professional context.