Hydrocarbon Development and the Energy Transition

Hydrocarbon Development and the Energy Transition

Course title: Hydrocarbon Development and the Energy Transition

Course Code: ET-HCD

Availability: 4 days, online or in-house

Course summary
This 4-day course provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by companies developing hydrocarbon resources during the Energy Transition. While many governments are phasing out the use of fossil fuels in transport, heating and electricity, regional implementation of the switch to low carbon fuels is uneven. Certain sectors such as petrochemicals will remain reliant on oil and gas. This course provides case studies, interactive exercises and the opportunity for open discussion around hydrocarbon development in the new energy era.
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Hydrocarbon Development and the Energy Transition

Energy Transition: Culture, Strategy and Dynamics

Course title: Energy Transition: Culture, Strategy and Dynamics

Course Code: ET-CSD

Availability: 3-day course, in-house only 

Course summary
This 3-day course allows companies to explore the dynamics of the organisational transformation required to meet the upcoming challenges of the energy transition. Whether you are working in the traditional fossil fuel sector, as a producer or energy-intensive consumer, the Energy Transition will have a significant impact not only on your bottom line, but also on your staff and shareholders. This course allows companies to explore the dynamics of change within their organisations.

Course details
This is a highly interactive course. Over three days, participants will get to know themselves better, and will understand how their own values fit in with those of their organisation. Starting with this solid base, the course explores the organisational culture that underlies the business goals and strategies of the organisation in which you work. This becomes the basis for strategic decision-making. Understanding the corporate culture is the first step to defining a strategy, because implementing a strategy involves harnessing the energy of people with values and a sense of purpose. The course recognises the reality that organisations are complex systems, and that organisational change involves transformation at multiple levels of the system.  

Who should attend?
This course is essential for anyone with leadership responsibility in  an energy company or in large companies exposed to the challenges of the energy transition. This includes senior executives, board members and those with treasury responsibility. It will appeal to those who want to make CSR a central plank of their decision-making and strategy, and are committed to deep organisational change as a way to achieve this. Given the scope of the transformation over the next 30 years, this course has wide appeal and relevance to those committed to change. 

Key objectives
The key objective of the ET-CSD course is to allow companies to make the deep changes in their organisational structures and strategy that will be necessitated by the energy transitikn, and to implement these fearlessly on a sustainable basis. The course will engage anyone with leadership responsibility in a company whose culture, strategy and goals will be affected by the switch to low carbon fuels and the societal changes taking place around the energy transition. 

 

This course is under development and the detailed outline will be posted here soon.

Energy Trading, Pricing and Regulation

Energy Trading, Pricing and Regulation

Course title: Energy Trading, Pricing and Regulation

Course Code: EN-TPR

Course summary: The 2-day course Energy Trading, Pricing and Regulation explores how recent regulations relating to the trading and pricing of energy commodities including oil and gas affect companies engaged in energy commerce. New regulations have been put in place in the US and Europe covering the trading of physical commodities and derivatives, making companies and their staff liable in the event of market manipulation and uncompetitive behaviour. Following the LIBOR scandal, governments around the world are tightening the noose on commercial activities that have been accepted and even condoned in the past. Signalling of price action between competitors, the use of leverage in trading, and the potential for collusion are all minefields for companies, and the fact that legislation is often recent and untested makes companies vulnerable.
This course provides details of recent European legislation including EMIR, MIFID, and the EU benchmarks proposal, as well as the wide ranging Sarbanes-Oxley and subsequent regulations governing derivatives, and looks at how the landscape is likely to change in the future.
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