Essentials of the Oil & Gas Industry Training Course
Course Highlights and Agenda
An understanding of the oil and gas industry is more essential than it has ever been. This course will provide delegates with all of the basic tools they need to understand the industry and to appreciate what the future might hold in this increasingly volatile world of oil and gas.
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Agenda
Day 1 - The Oil Story
Hydrocarbon Basics
- Where does it come from?
- Geology - where do you find it?
- Conventional & unconventional oil
- Characterisation
Economics & Geopolitics of Oil
- Reserves - terminology… and reserve creep
- Consumption
- Supply and consumption
- OPEC
- "Peak Oil"
Structure of Oil Industry
- Supply chains
- Players & roles
- IOCs & NOCs – PSAs, JVs and other arrangements
- Service companies
Exploring for Oil
- Concessions
- How we look for oil
- Drilling
- Probabilities of finding oil
E&P Business
- Appraisal & planning
- Investment & economics
- Risk
Case Study: Madagascar Oil
Oil Production
- Process
- Depletion
- Enhanced recovery
Oil Refining
- Process
- Products
- Margin
Oil Logistics
- Pipelines
- Shipping
- Storage
The Oil Business
- Oil markets
- Pricing & netback
- Contracts
- Trading
Case Study: Russian Oil Industry
Day 2 - The Natural Gas Story
Conventional & Unconventional Gas Resources
- Dry vs. wet gas
- Flare gas
- Shale gas
- Coal-bed (CBM or CSG)
Economics & Geopolitics of Gas
- Reserves
- Supply and consumption
- Resource nationalism
- OGEC
Case Study: Russian Gas
Structure of Natural Gas industry
- Supply chains
- Players & roles
- IOCs & NOCs
- Integration vs. liberalised markets
Commercialising Natural Gas Reserves
- Terminology
- Composition
- Quality
- Risk
Case Study: Indonesia Natuna Gas Field
Case Study: Australian Coal-Bed Methane
Natural Gas Logistics
- Pipelines – transit & transport
- UGS storage
- LNG & CNG
- Gas-to-liquids
The Natural Gas Business
- Gas markets
- Contracts
- Pricing & netback
- Trading
Group Exercise: Commercialising a gas resource summary & closure
What You Will Learn
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
Reviews
"The course was very knowledgeable and informative, with up-to-date information on the industry, making it easy to understand and less technical."
"I really enjoyed the presentation technique of the trainer."
"Very knowledgeable trainer and put things in practical and clear terms"
