THE INTELLIGENT PIA LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
The Petroleum Industry Act belongs in the operating model.
15 Sessions · 25 Minutes Per Day · Three Weeks · Free · For leaders in Nigeria’s petroleum industry
Hello — I am Coach Ritchie. I am the AI assistant for this programme. Ritchie Wingo built me, and your work is marked against the rubric he published; anything that falls below the mark to continue, he reviews himself, because that is the point at which a person needs help rather than a score. I am here for the moments in between, when a renewal pack is due on Thursday and you want to argue a point through with someone first.
Fifteen sessions, twenty-five minutes a day, three weeks. A company can hold a copy of the Petroleum Industry Act and still have no dependable way to execute the obligations that matter to its business. Legal understands the provision, operations collects the measurement, finance calculates the payment, and nobody can show that the whole obligation was fulfilled. That is a leadership problem, not a legal one, and it is where AI either helps or makes the confusion faster.
Every assignment is about your company, and every assignment comes back with a written letter — what holds up and why, and where something is thin, exactly where to look. By Session 15 you will hold a signed ninety-day game plan for one obligation that matters, with a named owner, a baseline and the evidence to show what happened.
Ask me anything as you work and I will help you think it through, but I will not write your game plan for you, I do not give legal advice, and I switch myself off while you sit a quiz or an exam.
There is nothing to buy and no licence key to redeem. You sign in with your Google account so that your work can be marked and returned to you, your progress page follows you between devices, and your certificate can be issued in your own name.
With your Google account. Name, email, the company you work for and your role — that is the whole enrolment.
Why the PIA belongs in the operating model. Choose the one obligation that matters most to your business.
Twenty-five minutes, then one written assignment. It is marked against a published rubric and comes back as a letter.
You assemble and sign your game plan, sit the final, and your certificate is issued.
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This programme assumes you are not a lawyer or a technologist and do not intend to become one. It ends with you able to take a legal obligation and make it run inside your company — owned, evidenced, decided on time — and to tell, in one meeting, where AI genuinely helps and where it would only make an unowned process faster.
Write an executable obligation record: source, applicability, trigger, owner, evidence, closure rule — with legal time kept apart from management time.
Separate performing, authorising and verifying. Name the sponsor, the owner and the specialist approver, with delegations that have limits.
Stable identities, a time basis and an evidence status for every record — around the decision that matters, not the whole estate.
Rules for dates and calculations, language models for retrieval and comparison, and an approval boundary no tool crosses.
Licensing, measurement, host community funding, methane reporting, safety, supply and the midstream and downstream handoffs.
A governance record for every AI tool, submission packs an auditor can reconstruct, and agents held to an allowlist.
Payback and NPV on stated assumptions, retirement funding understood, and no invented avoided fines.
A pilot with a sponsor, a baseline and gates at days 30, 60 and 90 — then scale, narrow, repair or stop.
| It is written for | It is not written for |
|---|---|
| Managing directors, chief executives, executive and non-executive directors of upstream, midstream, downstream and service companies | Anyone looking for legal advice on a specific licence or filing — that needs the current instrument and your own counsel |
| Functional heads — operations, finance, legal and regulatory, HSE, community relations, commercial, technology — who answer for PIA obligations | Engineers looking for model architecture or coding work — that is a different course |
| Compliance, internal audit and assurance leaders who must reconstruct what happened | Anyone wanting a certificate without writing about their own company |
| Lenders, investors, advisers and public officials who must judge a petroleum company’s execution and its AI claims | Anyone expecting twenty minutes of video and a pass |
This programme does not end in a folder of notes. In Session 1 you choose the one obligation that matters most to your business, and every session after that writes one section of a single document — your 90-Day PIA Game Plan — around it. By Session 15 you assemble and sign it. Written properly, it is the paper you table at your next executive committee.
| Week | Sections you write |
|---|---|
| Week 1 The Law in the Operating Model | 1. Section 1 — Where we are today: the obligation that matters most and the honest answer to the four questions. 2. Section 2 — The one-page obligation trace and the first fix it needs. 3. Section 3 — The executable obligation record. 4. Section 4 — Sponsor, owners and decision rights. 5. Section 5 — The evidence index and the data gaps, each with an owner. |
| Week 2 Executing the Obligations | 6. Section 6 — The AI role: layers, rules versus model, and the approval boundary. 7. Section 7 — The permission dependency schedule. 8. Section 8 — The quantity evidence chain and reconciliation rule. 9. Section 9 — The stakeholder or environmental evidence chain, and the unsupported claim. 10. Section 10 — The critical handoff and where its evidence breaks. |
| Week 3 Trust, Capital and the Ninety Days | 11. Section 11 — The governance record and authority boundary. 12. Section 12 — The submission package and the agent boundary. 13. Section 13 — The honest capital case and the capability we will own. 14. Section 14 — The board scorecard and the decision we will ask for. 15. Section 15 — The assembled, signed 90-Day PIA Game Plan with its executive summary. |
This programme is free, and nothing is upsold to you inside it. When you finish, you receive an ERW CommandPIA certificate of completion in your own name — issued on a pass, not on attendance.
| To receive it | What that means |
|---|---|
| Every assignment passed | Sessions 1 to 14, each marked at 70 or above against its published rubric. Work below the mark comes back with what to fix; resubmit and the new mark replaces the old one. |
| The capstone passed | Your signed 90-Day PIA Game Plan, Session 15, marked at 70 or above. |
| The Final Exam passed | Fifteen questions, three of them rebuilt from your own earlier mistakes, at 70 or above. |
The certificate is emailed to the Google address you signed in with. It certifies completion of an ERW leadership programme; it is not a legal qualification, a regulator’s licence or a university award.
Only people who have finished the programme can write one — the Session 15 capstone passed and the marked Final passed, both recorded by the server rather than by anyone’s say-so. They are shown exactly as written, never solicited and never edited.
One session a day, twenty-five minutes. Each one teaches part of the doctrine and makes you use it on your own business.
Every session ends in a written assignment — a record, a schedule, a chain, a game-plan section. Four hundred to nine hundred words.
Against the rubric printed under the assignment. A written letter comes back, usually within minutes.
Session 15 assembles fourteen sections into one document, then the final exam — three of whose questions are rebuilt from your own mistakes.
No mystery, and no waiting days for a mark. Here is the whole loop.
One document per session — Word or Google Docs — with the first line reading Session: N. Your own company, your own obligation.
Against that session’s published rubric, criterion by criterion. The same rubric every time, for everybody.
Not a score — a letter naming what holds up, what is asserted without evidence, and exactly where to look to fix it.
Your mark joins your progress page and the corrected section goes into your game plan, so Session 15 is assembly rather than writing.
An illustration of the letter format, using Session 8’s real rubric.
| Criterion | Awarded |
|---|---|
| Maps one real handoff with systems, owners by role, units and time basis stated | 22 / 25 |
| Classifies every value as measured, allocated, calculated or estimated and identifies where a label is lost | 20 / 25 |
| Walks a difference to a residual with each adjustment and its approver, without treating reconciled differences as recovered product | 25 / 30 |
| States the company's default explanation for differences and tests it honestly against the evidence | 13 / 20 |
Three weeks. Five sessions a week, twenty-five minutes each, at whatever pace your diary allows. Every session ends in one written assignment about your own company, and every assignment becomes a section of your game plan.
Seven papers, marked the moment you submit, every question returned with the reasoning behind it. Three pop quizzes of five questions, three practice exams of fifteen, and a fifteen-question final. You are never left to guess when to sit one: the session that opens a paper says so, prints the paper beside its assignment, and flags itself on the session tab — and your progress page always names the paper due now. Closed book, no notes, and Coach Ritchie switches himself off while you sit one. Pass mark 70 — and you may resit the practice papers as often as you like.
5 questions · after Session 3
15 questions · after Session 5, closing Week 1
5 questions · after Session 8
15 questions · after Session 10, closing Week 2
5 questions · after Session 12
15 questions · after Session 14, before the final
15 questions · in Session 15
Fourteen sections written one per session, assembled and signed in Session 15: the first pilot named, a baseline, a sponsor and an owner, a start date, day-30, day-60 and day-90 gates, and a one-page executive summary your executive committee could act on.
The Intelligent PIA — An Operating Doctrine for AI Leadership and Petroleum Industry Act Execution in Nigeria. Seventeen chapters across six parts, from leadership and data foundations through licensing, measurement, host communities, environment, safety, supply, governance, reporting, agentic AI, fiscal and retirement decisions, Nigerian capability and the ninety-day game plan.
These 15 sessions teach the doctrine and make you use it. The book carries what twenty-five minutes cannot: the full chapters, the numbered sources for every statutory proposition, and the appendices — the pilot charter, the obligation register, the evidence index, the source change register, the eighteen-case test pack, the benefits ledger, the board scorecard and the decision rights matrix — ready to use without buying any platform.
Nothing in this programme depends on buying it. Every session, paper and certificate is free whether you own the book or not.
The whole programme on one printable page — the four questions, the six frameworks, the obligation record, the status ladders, the scorecard and the ninety days. Keep it beside you from Week 2.
The document every assignment is written in — opens in Word or Google Docs, with the first line already correct.
Read the first session before you sign in, and decide for yourself whether the rest is worth three weeks.
Your marks, your letters, your game-plan sections and your paper results, in one place.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is it really free? | Yes. No card, no key, no paid tier. The certificate is free too. The book is available separately for anyone who wants the full chapters and templates, and nothing in the programme depends on it. |
| How much time, honestly? | Twenty-five minutes of reading and thirty to sixty minutes of writing per session. Call it six to eight hours over three weeks, and rather more if you do the capstone properly. |
| Do I need a legal or technical background? | Neither. You need a real company, one obligation that matters to it, and the willingness to look at both honestly. |
| We are a service company, not a licence holder. Does it apply? | Yes. Choose the obligation that reaches your work most directly — qualification evidence, flow-down from a client, Nigerian content records — and the sessions show where the discipline differs. |
| Is this legal advice? | No. It is an operating doctrine for leaders. It teaches how to connect obligations to owners, evidence and decisions; applicability for a real entity is a judgement for your own specialists. |
| Can my leadership team do it together? | Yes, and it works better that way — but each person signs in and submits their own work, because the game plan is only useful if it is argued over. |
| What if I miss a week? | Nothing happens. There are no cohort dates and no deadlines. Your progress waits for you. |
| Who marks it? | It is marked against R. Wingo’s published rubric, criterion by criterion, the same way every time. Anything that comes out below the mark to continue, he reviews himself before it reaches you. Coach Ritchie helps you think; he does not mark and he does not write your game plan. |