An Intensive 5-day Training Course
International Petroleum Business
A Global Business Fueling the Global Economy
Scheduled Dates
Classroom
| 03 - 07 Feb 2025 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 24 - 28 Feb 2025 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 02 - 06 Jun 2025 | Istanbul - Turkey | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 11 - 15 Aug 2025 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 08 - 12 Sep 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 24 - 28 Nov 2025 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 29 Dec 2025 - 02 Jan 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 05 - 09 Jan 2026 | Cairo - Egypt | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 02 - 06 Feb 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2026 | Kigali - Rwanda | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Online
| 03 - 07 Feb 2025 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 10 - 14 Feb 2025 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 24 - 28 Nov 2025 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 09 - 13 Feb 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Would an alternative date be more suitable?
We offer a variety of tailored training options, customized to meet your organisation's needs. Delivered anytime, anywhere, we make it easy to bring expert training directly to your team.
Why Choose this Training Course?
This interactive 5-day PetroKnowledge training course will highlight the added value in enhancing international petroleum business and in managing decision making.
The business of oil and gas is multifaceted, technically complex, highly capital intensive and often confronted with potential capital risks and price risk uncertainties. Today’s oil companies’ are dealing with ever increasing levels of complexity and competition. The innovative technologies in the recovery of oil are also changing the landscape of petroleum industry. Integration of refining and petrochemicals to achieve greater efficiencies is yet another critical factor in the business. Managing international supplies, refining and trading of oil require several cross-functional skills. To achieve maximum effectiveness, managers and professionals must continually expand their business knowledge and sharpen their skills. Their strategies must include how to achieve the supply chain value maximization, and how to create and manage portfolios that can withstand the price volatility while maximizing profits.
This training course will feature:
- The basics of oil and gas exploration, production, and its recovery economics to fully understand this global business that fuels the global economy
- The essential concepts and business practices of the international oil supply, transportation, refining, and trade in oil and gas industry
- Fundamentals of oil economics and of crude oil transportation
- Basic Refinery operations, economics and the environmental aspects
- Basic Principles in crude oil pricing and overview of crude oil and refined products markets.
- Essential elements in crude oil and refined products sales contracts
- Supply logistics - major international pipelines, shipping routes, and choke points
- It seamlessly covers the wide-array of critical business functions, processes, and appropriately deals with the business practices and tactics to build the necessary business acumen in the completive and low price environment
What are the Goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Gain broad perspective of global oil business, supply, and transportation, refining & trading
- Boost your understanding of the fundaments of oil business: quality, blending & valuation of oil for trade, freight and netback calculation & refinery margins calculations, vessel chartering, pipelines & terminals, etc.
- Master the Total barrel economics, Oil market futures, hedging and futures, and price management considerations
- Evaluate the technical, commercial, legal, safety and environmental aspects of oil business
- Confidently discuss the technical terms, concepts and buzzwords with your peers and clients
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Business Development managers
- Corporate Planning professionals
- Geoscience & Engineering professionals
- Refinery professionals
- Supply Planners & Scheduling professionals
- Government regulators
- Law professionals
- Tax & Finance advisors
- Auditing personnel
- Compliance officers
- Equity analyst and Bankers
- Joint Venture officers
- Negotiators and Contracting professionals
- Trading professionals
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This PetroKnowledge training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The daily workshops will be highly interactive and participative. Participants will learn by active participation throughout the course through the use of programme materials, case study exercises, quizzes, training videos and discussion of business cases issues in their organizations.
Daily Agenda
Day One: Exploration, Production, Supply and Petroleum Economics
- Introduction to the course
- Introduction to How Oil was Formed
- Origin, Accumulation and Migration Of Petroleum
- Essential Requirements For Hydrocarbon Accumulation
- Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Geology and Petroleum Engineering
- Introduction To Oil & Gas Geology
- Simple Anticline Structural Trap
- Barrier or Closure – Reservoir Traps - Reservoir Mapping
- Oil & Gas Drilling Techniques
- Types Of Drilling – Exploration, Delineation, Appraisal, Developmental, Maintain Potential Wells
- Drilling Circulatory System – Safety And Environmental Impact
- Well Logging and Well Completion
- Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Oil & Gas Wells
- Open and Cased Well Logs
- Functions of Well Casing
- Benefits of Horizontal Well over Vertical well - Multilateral Well Completions
- Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Oil & Gas Wells
- Essence of International Oil Supply – Global Reserves, Production & Trade
- Introduction to global oil business - Exploration, Extraction, Refining, Marketing, Transportation
- Global Oil Resources – World Oil and Gas Reserves, Production of Oil and Gas
- Industry units – for the USA, Europe and Asia, Conversion factors
- Crude Oil Classifications
- Crude Oil Quality Indictors, crude oil characterization by Assays
- Crude Oil Distillation – Refined Products
- Oil Industry Units and Conversion factors
- Fundamentals of Oil Economics
- Delivered price of crude oil – the concept GPW (Gross Product Worth)
- Net Refining Margin calculation
- Value of Crude Oil and the Determining Factors in Crude Selection
- Measures of Efficiency –DCFROR, Profitability Index, Unit Marginal Cost
- How to Determine Economic Limit of Oil & Gas Fields
- Investment Decision-Making Criteria
Day Two: Transportation, Refining and Marketing
- Fundamentals of Crude Oil Transportation – Tankers and Chartering
- International Oil Tanker Sizes, Tonnage
- Types of Charters and Charter Parties
- Freight Payment, Chartering Mechanism, Voyage Charter, Time charter
- Roles of Shipbroker, Shipping Agent, Bunkering, Arbitrage, Net daily Contribution
- Basic Principles in Pricing and Overview of Markets
- Causes of Oil Price Volatility
- The History of Oil Price – Real and Nominal
- The Future of Oil Price - Oil Imports & OPEC’s Production, & Consumption
- The Future of Oil Price - Global Reserves Replacement Ratio
- The Physical and Paper – Oil Markets
- Price Markers of the World – Crude Oil Benchmarks: WTI, Brent, Dubai/Oman, ASCI, OPEC Reference Basket
- Methods of Sale – Spot, Term
- Regional Pricing – North America, Europe & Asia
- Price Reporting Methodology – Price Report
- Crude Oil Markets
- History of Crude Pricing
- Location of Pricing
- Marker crudes
- Refined Products Quality
- Crude Oil Refinery – Size and Configuration – Skimming, Catalytic, Thermal Cracking
- Refinery Yields by Crude Type, Refinery Margin Calc., and factors affecting Profitability
- Key Refinery products and Specifications
- Need for Blending and blending exercise
- Prices at Pump, Oil & Gas Earnings Versus Other Industries , Return on Investments
- Refined Products Market
- Product Pricing Determinants
- Product Pricing Quotations
- Product Pricing Spec-base
- Product Pricing Assessments
- Fundamentals of Product Trading
Day Three: Contracts, Sales and Marketing Logistics
- Essential Elements in Crude Oil Sales Contracts
- The Objective, the parts of Contract, and Contract Confirmation
- Attributes and Buyer/Seller Responsibilities with INCO Terms – FOB, CFR, CIF, DES
- Important Oil Contracts Clauses
- Payment and Security
- General terms and Conditions
- Basic Refining II – Conventional Refinery Upgrading
- Cat Cracking
- Hydrocracking
- Visbreaking
- Coking
- Basic Refining III – Sulfur Reduction
- Sulfur Reduction Methods – Lighter Compounds and Heavier Compounds
- Hydroprocessing
- Sulfur Reduction measures
- Other Sulfur Reduction Processes
- Contracts – Elements of Risk
- Identify areas of risk
- Credit performance risk – LOC, Standby LOC, Parent company Guarantee
- Operational Risks - Vessel nominations, Quantity and Quality, etc.
- Charter Party Risks
- Basic Refinery IV – Economics & Environmental Aspects
- Yields for Different Configurations
- Value Contributions for Different Configurations
- Investments costs
- Environmental Considerations
- Primary Logistics
- Pipeline transfers - Advantages and Disadvantages
- Pipeline Scheduling
- Pipelines Investment Considerations - Tariffs and Operating Economics
- Major Pipelines of the World
- Storages
- Losses – Net loss, In-Transit Loss, Inturn loss, Outturn Loss
Day Four: Market Structures and Trading
- Introductory Concepts in Oil Trading
- Players in the Oil Market
- Success factors in Trading
- Risk Factors in Trading
- Trading Objectives and Price Movements
- Market Structures – Contango and Backwardation
- Interface with retailers
- Competitive Marketing – Primary and Secondary Supply
- The Value Chain – E&P to the Customer
- The Retail Market Place
- Fully Vertically Integrated Oil Company Model
- The Essential Success factors in Retailing
- Downstream Supply Chain management
- The Essential Success factors in Supply Management
- Total Barrel Economics
- Measures of Profitability
- Net Marketing Revenue – Refinery Netback
- The Cost of Supply and Total Barrel Margin
- Transfer price – An Alternate Value
- Typical Oil Company, Distribution and Marketing Costs
- Maximizing Corporate Profits
- Oil Markets – Futures
- Market differences – Forwards and Futures
- Characteristics of Futures Contract
- What is Futures Market?
- What is Margin Money?
- How Futures are used?
- Price Exposure
- Trading For profit
- Taking Buy or Sell Position – Long Vs Short
- Priced Vs Unpriced Exposure
- What is Unpriced Purchase and Unpriced Sale
Day Five: Petroleum Dynamics and Risk Management
- Hedging – Risk Management
- Use of Futures and Forward Markets
- Example of Hedging
- Removal of Absolute Risk – Introduction of Basis risk
- Pricing Management
- What is Price Management?
- Price Management Example
- Price management Outcome
- Derivatives
- What are Swaps?
- Example of Swap Transactions
- What are Options?
- Example of Option Transactions
- Attributes of Swaps and Options in Oil & Gas industry
- Examples of Oil & Gas Futures Contracts, Swaps, and Options
- Common mistakes by Oil & Gas Companies in Hedging
- A Guide To Developing A Corporate Fuel Risk Management Policy
- Challenges to Petroleum Industry and Trends in New Technology
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- International
- International Aspects of Oil Trading
- General Trade Laws
- World Trade Organization
- United States
- Oil Trading in the US
- General Commercial
- Anti-Trust Legislation
- Sovereign Immunity Act
- FCPA
- Commodity Trading Law
- United Kingdom
- Oil Trading in the UK
- General Commercial Law
- Singapore
- Oil Trading in Singapore
- Singapore Exchange
- Comparison with London and New York
- International
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why PetroKnowledge?
PetroKnowledge is a globally recognized provider of training courses for oil and gas professionals, offering a wide range of specialized training courses designed to enhance knowledge, skills, and expertise in the energy sector. With courses tailored to meet the evolving demands of the oil and gas industry, PetroKnowledge helps professionals stay up-to-date with industry standards, technological advancements, and best practices.
Who are these training courses designed for?
Our courses are specifically developed for professionals in the oil and gas industry, including engineers, technical staff, managers, and other specialists looking to advance their careers. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or new to the sector, our training for oil and gas professionals is suited to individuals at all stages of their professional journey.
Are the courses delivered online or in person?
PetroKnowledge offers flexible learning solutions with both online courses and in-person training options. Online courses for oil and gas professionals provide the flexibility to learn from anywhere, while in-person courses offer a hands-on, interactive learning environment. Each training course page provides detailed information on the delivery format, allowing you to choose the option that best meets your learning style and schedule
Can I get a customized training course for my team?
Yes, PetroKnowledge offers customized in-house training solutions for organizations looking to upskill their teams. We work closely with companies to design bespoke training courses for oil and gas professionals that address specific challenges and objectives. Whether you need on-site training or online solutions, we can tailor the training courses to suit your organization’s needs.
Are there any prerequisites for attending a course?
Certain advanced training courses for oil and gas professionals may require prior experience or technical knowledge. These prerequisites ensure that participants can fully benefit from the course content. We recommend reviewing the course description on the relevant page to determine if any prerequisites apply to your selected course.
How can I enroll in a course?
Enrolling in one of our training courses for oil and gas professionals is simple and convenient. Navigate to the specific course page, click “Enroll Now,” and complete the registration form. You will receive a confirmation email with further details on how to proceed.
You may also get in touch with our Registration Team on
+971 50 981 7386 | +971 2 557 7389 or send an email to [email protected]
When should I expect to receive confirmation of registration?
Upon successful registration online, enrolment on the respective training course will be confirmed by Registration Team by e-mail along with the invoice and joining instruction.
Will I receive a certificate after completing the course?
Yes, upon successful completion of our courses for professionals in the oil and gas industry, you will receive an industry-recognized certificate from PetroKnowledge. This certification is designed to validate your skills and knowledge and can significantly enhance your professional credentials, boosting your career prospects in the competitive oil and gas sector.
When and how do I arrange payments?
We offer two convenient payment options:
- Bank Transfer – You can make payment via bank transfer. Once your registration is confirmed, you will receive an invoice with the banking details for the transfer. We would require you to supply a swift copy for us to confirm receipt of funds.
- Payment Link – Alternatively, we provide a secure payment link that you can use to complete your payment after your registration has been confirmed.
What is the refund or cancellation policy?
Our refund and cancellation policy varies depending on the course and circumstances. Generally, cancellations made at least 21 days before the training are eligible for a refund, less any administrative fees. If you have any specific inquiries about the cancellation or refund, don’t hesitate to contact our support team, who can assist with your booking and cancellation queries.
Is there a discount for more than one registrant/course?
For corporate fees and group registration, please send your query to [email protected].
