Free Oil and Gas Professional E-learning Course organized by the Institute of Drilling and Petroleum Engineering (IDPE)

Professional Diploma in Oil and Gas Environmental Management (Certified Upstream Environmental Manager Course)

Institute of Drilling and Petroleum Engineering (IDPE) invite interested candidates to enroll in online-based free Course.

Institute of Drilling and Petroleum Engineering (IDPE) is an accredited Professional Petroleum Institute established by Act 1990 and approved by the Federal Ministry of Education Nigeria.  IDPE is centre accredited for Petroleum Training by International Association of Drilling Contractors USA.

What this course will do for you
Environmental problems require solutions which encompass social, political and economic issues, as well as scientific and technological principles; this course gives you a deeper understanding of the issues involved. With increasing environmental legislation and regulation, commercial and industrial organisations, local authorities and public bodies all require some environmental input to their activities.

The purpose of this course  is to provide you the basic environmental issues in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and of the best approaches to achieving high environmental performance with strong skills in Upstream Environmental Management. 

At the end of this course you will have the skills and expertise to design and implement solutions to eliminate or mitigate upstream environmental Problems for Oil and Gas Companies.  You will develop the vision to grasp the inter-disciplinary nature of environmental issues.  Graduates who wish to build a career in Environmental Management would find the course very valuable.  

Environmental Manager Job Description
Environmental managers are responsible for making sure an organization is compliant with environmental regulations in areas such as air quality, waste, clean water, and pollution. Environmental managers play a scientific and administrative role in an organization. Their job is to ensure that their employers comply with both internal and external environmental requirements. In other words, their corporation sets its own standards for keeping its operations environmentally sound and the state and federal government has numerous compliance laws as well. Environmental managers need to familiarise themselves with all of these requirements to see that superiors, peers and subordinates carry them out properly.

Average Salary for Environmental Manager (2014)
$92,250 Per Annum

Studies in this Programme is divided into 3 Parts. 
The course is structured in way that you will find the programme of substantial benefit in developing the knowledge and skills in upstream environmental management.  

Part 1: Overview of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production.
Part 2: Management
Part 3: Operational Practices and Procedures

This course is equipped with a downloadable glossary document page  to enable you understands the definition of terms used in this course. And also other download links to help you get through this course effectively.
 
Course Delivery Pattern and Start Date
This course is expected to be completed in 5 weeks starting from October 1st, 2015 to November 6th 2015. The course portal will open on the 1st of October 2015 at 6 am and close on the 6th of November 2015 at 12 pm West African Standard Central Time.

Target Audience
This course is  Massive Open Online Course. It is free and open to anyone  interested in taking studies online in Environmental Management.

Testing Fee and Certificate 
Part of IDPE’s objectives is to bring learning to people and not people to learning.  Industry standard courses are created which is free to take under our platform. At the end of the course, Students interested in taking final exam through our proctor partner and  receive a verified certificate will pay just $140 only for online Proctoring and verified certificate.  

Testing Duration and Scheduling: 
Testing contains 50 multiple choice questions with a timeline of 1hr.30mins to complete. Student's complete registration and payment must be received on or before October 15th.

The Final Exam of this course will be proctored online  by our Proctoring Partner company located in USA. All Exam takers will be proctored online accordingly. This is IDPE's new measures to ascertain the integrity of our E-learning courses and with greater acceptance by employers.

The steps on exam registration can be downloaded when the course portal opens. Download the link titled "Test Guidelines". 

For help or inquiries contact IDPE Elearning Department at:  +234817 7445 392

Note: This course is  free 


Mode of Application
You can start the course now by clicking on the  link below:
www.idpe.org/programs/e-learning/professional-diploma-in-oil-and-gas-environmental-management.html

Or you can go to www.idpe.org then go to Programs and then to E-learning. 

For any further inquiries please contact: [email protected]
Website: www.idpe.org