Energy Training

 This unique 3-day interactive training course:

• Addresses the key skills required to succeed in the modern oil & gas industry
• Explains the processes, drivers and terminology relevant to the industry
• Enables you to understand the asset commercialisation issues unique to the sector
• Identifies the risk and opportunity exposures of different stakeholders
• Reveals new global resource trends, supply chains and environmental constraints
• Establishes what needs to be measured to monitor and improve performance in the industry
• Highlights best practices in managing the oil and gas industry’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

During this intensive two-day course you will learn:

• The carbon market fundamentals
• How they influence emissions trading options
• The optimal emissions trading strategy
• How carbon impacts a company's asset value and credit rating
• How an emissions strategy optimises the rating
• How project-based credits can be generated

Over three hands-on days you will gain:

• A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art approaches to modelling energy prices and pricing energy derivatives
• A clear practical understanding of the major energy derivative structures and their applications
• Practical tools for using energy derivatives for hedging price and volumetric exposures
• A detailed understanding of the latest techniques for valuing and hedging real options
• An appreciation of value-at-risk methodologies applied to the energy industry

Over two highly practical days, you will:

• Understanding the tools and techniques to manage oil price hikes
• Cost factors and risks in energy markets
• Practical fuel hedging strategies
• Applications of derivatives for the fuel oil, power, aviation and transportation sectors
• Establishing an energy hedging programme – procedures and responsibilities
• Making strategic use of hedging tools

• The developments and major issues in power and fuel markets in Europe
• The European power market platforms
• The drivers and dynamics of power prices
• The different instruments that are being traded
• Trading and hedging strategies of power derivatives and assets

During this intensive two-day course you will get:

• Grasp the drivers and changes in the oil & gas chains
• Explore oil & gas hydrocarbon formation and reserves
• Understand the E&P, mid-stream and down-stream processes
• Investigate the effect of geopolitics on oil & gas developments
• Examine market dynamics and pricing effects

Attend this highly interactive three-day course and gain a solid practical understanding of:

• The drivers and changes in the LNG chain
• Where Atlantic Basin LNG supply is coming from and when
• The linkages between Asian and Atlantic Basin LNG markets
• LNG in context of key European markets
• LNG pricing effects
• The developments in LNG trading, arbitrage and cargo diversions
• The global issues and current challenges in the LNG arena

Over three intensive and interactive days you will:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of how different types of commercial contracts relate to one another in an oil and gas investment
• Grasp the critical commercial and business implications of global oil and gas contracts
• Learn robust strategies and techniques for improving the negotiation phases (including negotiations after a contract is signed)
• Develop a practical framework for dealing with joint venture agreements
• Understand the key and current nuances between government and investor agreements

Over three highly intensive days, this course:

• Presents a broad overview of a wide range of energy technologies and issues
• Integrates technical & commercial considerations for industry not academia
• Provides global perspectives to renewable and alternative energy opportunities
• Addresses both power generation and transportation sectors
• Considers energy efficiency and sustainability
• Explores alternative futures for primary energy supply without ignoring fossil fuels

Topics addressed in depth, on this 3 day course:

• Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
• The mechanics of upstream oil and gas financing
• Understanding the complexities of refinery finance
• Oil and gas transmission and distribution lending
• LNG project finance strategies
• Petchem and gas-to-liquids financing

 Key learning outcomes:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of economics in the petroleum industry
• Understand cashflow and profit analysis techniques
• Perform basic economic and financial evaluations
• Learn marginal vs total cost analysis
• Study probability, expected value and sensitivity analysis
• Deal with uncertainty through risk analysis and hedging
• Gain the ability to incorporate financial considerations in the decision making process

… and other essential topics.

Attend this intensive two-day course and acquire practical insight into:

• The working processes in the oil industry: covering upstream, midstream and downstream
•  How refineries and refinery processes work
• The nuances of international oil markets, products traded within them and the applications of those products
•  The practicalities of oil pricing, benchmarks and indices
•  A whole host of trading techniques, get to grips with the various methods and applications
•  The inner workings of oil trading platforms (exchanges)
•  Risk management techniques in oil trading, learn how to identify, measure and control those risks
• What the future may hold for the oil markets

During two intensive days you will:

• Use topical situations to illustrate the theories of risk management in power trading - a highly practical approach
• Learn from an international power expert who can translate jargon into clear and relevant information
• Learn how to identify risks and gain a practical approach to mitigating them using current real-life examples
• Get to grips with a number of pricing and risk modelling techniques which will prove invaluable to you in the future

Five reasons why you must attend this course:

• The programme focuses on the key practical trading and risk issues in all the major energy markets
• The practical focus of the course will expose you to the complex risks in the sector via our simulation sessions and equip you with cutting-edge tools to deal with them in the real world
• Our faculty of internationally recognised experts are unrivalled in the training world. You are guaranteed to be learning from some of the finest minds in the business
• The residential nature of the programme means that these hand-picked individuals will be able to work with you closely to ensure your practical knowledge grows substantially over the five intensive days
• There is no other programme like it, you will benefit from 18 cutting-edge case-studies enabling you to apply what you have learned to any scenario

 During this intensive five-day residential course you will: 

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the energy value chain
• Get to grips with the challenges that will have the greatest impact on your industry now and in the future
• Reinforce and strengthen your knowledge in the areas you know whilst also broadening your knowledge in other areas and industry issues you are less confident in
• Learn the latest developments in petroleum geology, supply chain, exploration and recovery, foreign participation, transportation, refining and trading
• Confidently master the relevant commercial factors key to the negotiation of oil and gas contracts
• Develop a comprehensive strategy for decision making, especially under conditions of risk and uncertainty

This three-day highly practical course:

• Explains the full length of the oil, gas and power supply chains and progresses along each
• Addresses and integrates technical, economic, regulatory and fiscal issues
• Provides an impartial but comprehensive review of the value to be derived from fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels in providing efficient sources of energy
•  Suggests how the natural gas value chain is evolving to compete with other fuels
• Identifies and contrasts the environmental and economic challenges to be overcome by each available source of primary energy in order for it to become sustainabl
• Forecasts future roles and combinations for primary energies to meet evolving energy demandrequirements