Day 1 :A. STATES AND BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
Considerations about the respective roles of governments, market and corporations in modern economics
B. GENERALITIES ABOUT BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
A modern company’s distinctive features
Companies environment today

Day 2 :
C. CIVIL SOCIETY AND CORPORATIONS
The stakeholders
Corporate political strategy
Workshop: “How can a company elaborate a strategy of political action ?”

Day 3 :
D. RELATIONSHIPS STATES-COMPANIES: EXAMPLE OF AN OIL & GAS COMPANY
Generalities about the upstream segment of an oil company (E&P)
Business and states relationships for upstream operators
Petroleum rights awards: process, procedures
Contracts in international oil industry
Films: Planète Energies, Rosa oil field development (Angola)

Day 4 :
E. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Definitions – Issues
The CSR policy of Total
CSR and security
Workshop: “Applying social strategies”
Film: Yemen LNG project

Day 5 :
F. ETHICS POLICY OF AN OIL COMPANY: EXAMPLE OF TOTAL
Principles, tools, implementation
Ethics evaluation
Workshop: “Dealing with corruption”
Film: Ethics in the corporation
G. CONTROL OF THE COMPREHENSION OF THE COURSE
Quiz of 5 questions