Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry Course in Barcelona

Turning Local Content Obligations into Long-Term Value

Local content in oil and gas is no longer simply a regulatory requirement to be addressed during contracting. It can influence who gets hired, which suppliers participate, how contracts are structured, where capabilities are developed, and ultimately how much lasting value an oil and gas project creates within its host country.

The Local Content Management in the Oil and Gas Industry course provides a practical approach to managing these expectations while balancing compliance with commercial and operational realities. Across five focused days, you'll explore how local content requirements move from legislation, licences, and petroleum agreements into procurement strategies, supplier development programmes, workforce plans, contracts, KPIs, and reporting systems.

The programme looks beyond compliance alone. You'll examine how operators, contractors, governments, NOCs, IOCs, and local suppliers can work together to develop sustainable domestic capability without losing sight of cost, quality, schedule, or project performance. Through exercises and industry scenarios, you'll also learn how to build a Local Content Management Plan (LCMP) that connects regulatory expectations with measurable execution.

You'll learn how to:

• Interpret local content frameworks and understand how regulatory and contractual requirements affect oil and gas projects.
• Translate local content obligations into practical procurement, workforce, and supply chain strategies.
• Design supplier development initiatives that strengthen sustainable local capability.
• Incorporate local content requirements into tendering, evaluation, negotiation, and contracting.
• Develop and implement an effective Local Content Management Plan (LCMP).
• Establish meaningful KPIs and reporting systems to monitor local content performance.
• Manage compliance, delivery, supplier, workforce, and stakeholder risks.
• Connect local content with ESG, CSR, national capacity development, and long-term value creation.

Whether you're responsible for defining local content requirements or delivering against them, this course will help you move from policy commitments to practical, measurable results.