Dovre Campus has now finished this year’s contract management course for the Chinese company China National Offshore Engineering Company ( CPOE).
There was around 20 participants from CPOE following our lectures. Even though most of them had technical background, and despite obvious language challenges they proved to be an eager and interested group who clearly appreciated our knowledge.
The lecturing period lasted for 12 days. The topics we covered where related to the strategic and the operational phase of contract management, but we also covered general aspects of project management and control.
Both as individuals and as a group the Chinese were pleasant and well meaning. In addition to valuable academic discussions we had a lot of fun together with them.
It is possible that we must adjust the formal feedback they gave us after we had finished for general politeness, but even accounting for that the response we got was very good. They were asked individually to score the whole course and each lecturers content and performance. On a scale from 1 in the low end to 10 as max the whole course scored above 9 on content, and just below 9 on presentation. We should be very pleased with this.
Of the 12 days we used external lecturing resources for less than a day, which means we did almost all of it ourselves.
A big thank you is therefore called for to the employees who contributed both in developing and hosting the course;
- Jarle Finsveen
- Morten Kvarme
- Brian Walmsley
- Arne Narvestad
- Hans Hjørring
The external resources who also helped us lift the course where;
- Arne Engesæth. Wiersholm advokatselskap
- Sven-Erik Hansen. Safran Software Solutions
We met both the CEO of CPOE and the HR director of their mother company ( Petro China. HR director for approx 1,2 million employees!). We hope they got the same message from the participants on the course as we did!
About CNPOEC / CPOE
In 2004, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), China’s largest oil producer, has established an offshore oil engineering subsidiary, to boost the exploitation of oil in China's waters.
The subsidiary, China National Petroleum Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPOEC / CPOE), should also expedite CNPC's overseas expansion by helping it tap into offshore reserves in foreign countries.
CNPC created the engineering company by consolidating the drilling, construction, engineering assets and design institutions of its two subsidiaries - Liaohe Oil Exploration Bureau and Dagang Petroleum Group.
Read more here:
http://www.cnpc.com.cn/eng/