Day 1 – Tuesday

• The Agri Supply Chain - what is supply chain, supply chain framework for Agriculture, 4-Rs of the agri supply chain
• Crop supply trends and dynamics
• Influence of energy transition, population shifts and geopolitics
• Crop demand trends and dynamics, including co- and by-products

Day 2 – Wednesday

• Bringing crop and product supply and demand together
• Price formation – Commodity exchanges, cash & brokerage, basis
• Case studies – Soybeans, coffee or other similar crops
• Risk management and mitigation – Crops, Proteins, Crop Nutrients

Day 3 – Thursday

• Pulling it Together – How agri overcomes supply chain disruptions
• Challenges as agriculture meets future requirements – Consumer preferences, biofuel needs, decarbonization efforts

• Obtain a view of industry trends in crop production and use for food, fiber, fuel and industrials.
• Understanding of market fundamentals and feedstock dynamics for the biofuels sector with measurable contributions to their organization.
• Learn about the tools to meet energy transition and sustainability goals, focusing on the basics of agri commodity markets, risk management concepts, and logistics.
• Gain a perspective of market structures and supply chain vulnerabilities linked to value chain dynamics given the impact of the larger fuel markets impact on agriculture.
• Crop supply and demand, selling and buying, procurement for handling, transport, crushing & grinding, livestock feeding, export, biofuels & renewable energy during this energy transition period.
• Plus, a deep dive into requirements of biofuel feedstocks for renewable transportation fuels (e.g., renewable diesel, SAF, etc.)
• Commodities covered: grains (barley, corn, sorghum, and wheat), oilseeds (canola and soybeans), softs, veg oils, and products (DDGs, soybean meal)

• Detailed understanding of agri-commodity fundamentals and the language of the industry.
• Tools to comprehend market dynamics impacting prices and costs.
• Opportunity to apply:
• New knowledge to unravel complexity while enabling the development of risk management tools for merchandising, trading and procurement.
• New and higher-value level skills to contribute to organizational performance while being able to advance career development.

Get an overview of the energy transition landscape and the potential future of energy systems

Evaluate the role of carbon markets in the energy transition

Understand the role of hydrogen and its alternatives in the energy future

Realize the importance of renewable energy and the various available technologies

Assess the governmental and regulatory environments, and their impact on the energy transition economics

Energy Transition: what is energy transition, climate scenarios, drivers of energy transition, the future of energy

Carbon markets: how carbon markets work, role of carbon markets in reducing emissions, future of carbon markets

Regulation: role of government in energy transition, regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and carbon markets

Financial implications of energy transition: cost of renewable energy, impact of carbon pricing, role of government policy

Carbon Capture: technologies and trends

Carbon Intensities: carbon accounted commodity, carbon price premium

Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency:

• Hydrogen: production of hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in energy systems, the economics of hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia
• Renewables: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and supply chain

Storage and Electricity - impact of transmission on the pace of energy transition

1. Carbon Markets and Pricing Overview
2. How do Carbon Markets and Pricing fit within Global Climate Policy?
3. Compliance Carbon Markets & Pricing
4. The voluntary Carbon Markets
5. Article 6 & Global Carbon Linkages
6. Nature-based Solutions & Biodiversity
7. Implications for Corporates
8. How do carbon markets sit within the global climate policy and market dynamics?

Get an overview of the energy transition landscape and the potential future of energy systems

Evaluate the role of carbon markets in the energy transition

Understand the role of hydrogen and its alternatives in the energy future

Realize the importance of renewable energy and the various available technologies

Assess the governmental and regulatory environments, and their impact on the energy transition economics

Energy Transition: what is energy transition, climate scenarios, drivers of energy transition, the future of energy

Carbon markets: how carbon markets work, role of carbon markets in reducing emissions, future of carbon markets

Regulation: role of government in energy transition, regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and carbon markets

Financial implications of energy transition: cost of renewable energy, impact of carbon pricing, role of government policy

Carbon Capture: technologies and trends

Carbon Intensities: carbon accounted commodity, carbon price premium

Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency:

• Hydrogen: production of hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in energy systems, the economics of hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia
• Renewables: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and supply chain

Storage and Electricity - impact of transmission on the pace of energy transition

Get an overview of the energy transition landscape and the potential future of energy systems

Evaluate the role of carbon markets in the energy transition

Understand the role of hydrogen and its alternatives in the energy future

Realize the importance of renewable energy and the various available technologies

Assess the governmental and regulatory environments, and their impact on the energy transition economics

Energy Transition: what is energy transition, climate scenarios, drivers of energy transition, the future of energy

Carbon markets: how carbon markets work, role of carbon markets in reducing emissions, future of carbon markets

Regulation: role of government in energy transition, regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and carbon markets

Financial implications of energy transition: cost of renewable energy, impact of carbon pricing, role of government policy

Carbon Capture: technologies and trends

Carbon Intensities: carbon accounted commodity, carbon price premium

Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency:

• Hydrogen: production of hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in energy systems, the economics of hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia
• Renewables: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and supply chain

Storage and Electricity - impact of transmission on the pace of energy transition

Get an overview of the energy transition landscape and the potential future of energy systems

Evaluate the role of carbon markets in the energy transition

Understand the role of hydrogen and its alternatives in the energy future

Realize the importance of renewable energy and the various available technologies

Assess the governmental and regulatory environments, and their impact on the energy transition economics

Energy Transition: what is energy transition, climate scenarios, drivers of energy transition, the future of energy

Carbon markets: how carbon markets work, role of carbon markets in reducing emissions, future of carbon markets

Regulation: role of government in energy transition, regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and carbon markets

Financial implications of energy transition: cost of renewable energy, impact of carbon pricing, role of government policy

Carbon Capture: technologies and trends

Carbon Intensities: carbon accounted commodity, carbon price premium

Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency:

• Hydrogen: production of hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in energy systems, the economics of hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia
• Renewables: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and supply chain

Storage and Electricity - impact of transmission on the pace of energy transition

Get an overview of the energy transition landscape and the potential future of energy systems

Evaluate the role of carbon markets in the energy transition

Understand the role of hydrogen and its alternatives in the energy future

Realize the importance of renewable energy and the various available technologies

Assess the governmental and regulatory environments, and their impact on the energy transition economics

Energy Transition: what is energy transition, climate scenarios, drivers of energy transition, the future of energy

Carbon markets: how carbon markets work, role of carbon markets in reducing emissions, future of carbon markets

Regulation: role of government in energy transition, regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and carbon markets

Financial implications of energy transition: cost of renewable energy, impact of carbon pricing, role of government policy

Carbon Capture: technologies and trends

Carbon Intensities: carbon accounted commodity, carbon price premium

Clean Technologies and Energy Efficiency:

• Hydrogen: production of hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in energy systems, the economics of hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia
• Renewables: solar photovoltaics, wind power, and supply chain

Storage and Electricity - impact of transmission on the pace of energy transition

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

Consumers and investors are demanding increased sustainability commitments from the chemical players. As a result, companies need to develop strategies to improve their sustainability and meet net zero targets. The development of resilient roadmaps to achieve these objectives requires an understanding of potential sources of opportunities with improved sustainability and an assessment of options, whilst acknowledging that there are significant market and regulatory uncertainties. For chemical producers, many of the opportunities are outside their direct control and linked to the agribusiness, refining, plastics circularity and CO2 use.

Session 1 – Agricultural Background and Biofuels

• Legislation overview
• Agri-feedstocks overview and carbon intensity including new fuels.
• Routes to gasoline blending components
• Routes to diesel/aviation fuel blending components
• Biogas developments
• Biomethanol
• RFNBOs – eFuels, hydrogen, etc.
• Market overview
• Manufacturing costs
• Carbon footprint and availability of petrochemical feedstocks

Session 2 – Plastics Recycling

• Scoping the challenge
• Legislation overview
• Market overview and development
• Petrochemical value chain Integration
• Technology Solutions
• Production economics
• Carbon footprint implications.

Session 3 – Biodegradable Polymers

• Definitions
• Legislation overview
• Market overview and development
• Polymer Families and Building Blocks
• Technology Solutions
• Production Economics
• Carbon Footprint Implications.

Session 4 – Bio-based Plastics and Intermediates

• Definitions
• Legislation overview as appropriate
• Market overview and development
• Polymer Families and Building Blocks
• Technology Solutions
• Comparative production economics
• Carbon Footprint Implications.

Session 5 – Carbon Dioxide

• Market overview and development
• Major sources
• Technology solutions for CCS/CCSU and re-use
• Comparative production economics
• Introduce impact on biofuel/chemical operations.

Session 6 – More Sustainable Petrochemical Building Blocks

• Definitions
• Legislation overview as appropriate
• Market overview and development – focus on production
• Reminder of feedstocks from biofuels, circular plastics, etc.
• Low carbon building blocks and footprint
• Alternative approaches to reduction in scopes 1, 2 and 3.
• Comparative production economics
• Impact of developments in CO2 pricing on competitiveness

Conclusions – what does this all mean?

For stakeholders in the chemical industry, this course offers a review of advances in chemicals sustainability options, a discussion of the drivers for their development and some key elements necessary to their assessment.

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics.
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

• The course starts off with a thorough and detailed look at the foundation of our industry- petrochemical feedstocks including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal and bio-based.
• This discussion leads naturally into the industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• In turn, we explore each building block's value chain, including commodities such as PE, PP, PVC, PS/EPS, PET and methanol.
• And we also go downstream into more specialized product areas including LAOs, EO/MEG, PO, Phenol, BPA, PC, Epoxies, Acrylics/SAP, Plasticizers, ACN, Synthetic Rubbers, 1,4-BDO, ABS, Nylons, Polyurethanes, PF, MF, UF Resins and many others.

• Gain an understanding of the big picture from feedstocks to olefins and aromatics to plastics
• Reinforce and refresh skills and knowledge
• Fill in knowledge gaps/learn new skills
• Learn current industry trends
• Hear different industry perspectives
• Gain confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers and suppliers

See the big picture of the oil industry with an understanding of its structure, fundamentals, supply, and demand

Get an understanding of oil trading, pricing, and benchmarks

Create short term and long term outlooks for the oil markets, in an environment being impacted by energy transition

Develop risk management strategies for selling, purchasing, and trading uncertainties

Learn, reinforce, and refresh knowledge and skills, while hearing different industry perspectives and gauging current industry trends

Discover growth opportunities by building confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers, and suppliers on current and future market conditions.

Opportunity to develop professional network of industry participants.

Oil Market Fundamentals

• Global energy fundamentals: global energy supply & demand;
• Structure of the world oil industry
• World oil market fundamentals (part 1): Oil market history; oil demand and supply; forces shaping future of world oil demand; history of oil supply regulation; US Shale; Emergence of OPEC+
• World oil market fundamentals (part 2): oil price history; factors shaping the oil price today; role of futures markets; price benchmarks
• Oil and the energy transition: How to think about the future

Oil price discovery and trading

• Oil Pricing: How does the Brent market work?; Understanding what the physical trading data represents; Methodology: How do we arrive to the price?
• Trading: The mechanics of trading physical crude
• Oil Price Forecast

Benchmarks

• Overview of Platts Oil Benchmarks and assessment methodology
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Dated Brent/Urals
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Platts Dubai/Oman

Market Outlook

• How to develop an oil price outlook, short and long term
• Value of scenario framework for forecasting
• Oil market outlook to 2024 and through 2050

Carbon Capture

• Technologies and Trends

Carbon Intensities

• Carbon Accounted Commodity
• Carbon Price Premium

Risk Management Concepts

• Approaches to Risk Management
• Risks with discretionary positioning
• Long and Short
• Basis and Outright risk
• Physical v. Financial Exposure

Basic Futures

• Futures: ecosystem and settlement
• Margins, basis and spreads

Introduction to Basis Trading

• Implications of basis
• Models for basis analysis

Overview of Options

• Basics and definitions
• Variables to determine option prices
• Profit and Loss diagrams
• Basic option strategies

Introduction to Hedging

• Hedging strategies in trading
• Basic hedging instruments

• Crude Oil Grades & Qualities
• Refined Products and their Qualities
• Refining Configurations & “Complexity”
• Refinery Technology
• Refined Product Price Formation
• Crude Oil Valuation
• Refinery Margin Calculations
• Short-term Market Outlook
• Responding to Near-term Changes
• Long-term Market Outlook
• Refining & Petrochemical Integration
• Greener Refiners

See the big picture of the oil industry with an understanding of its structure, fundamentals, supply, and demand

Get an understanding of oil trading, pricing, and benchmarks

Create short term and long term outlooks for the oil markets, in an environment being impacted by energy transition

Develop risk management strategies for selling, purchasing, and trading uncertainties

Learn, reinforce, and refresh knowledge and skills, while hearing different industry perspectives and gauging current industry trends

Discover growth opportunities by building confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers, and suppliers on current and future market conditions.

Opportunity to develop professional network of industry participants.

Oil Market Fundamentals

• Global energy fundamentals: global energy supply & demand;
• Structure of the world oil industry
• World oil market fundamentals (part 1): Oil market history; oil demand and supply; forces shaping future of world oil demand; history of oil supply regulation; US Shale; Emergence of OPEC+
• World oil market fundamentals (part 2): oil price history; factors shaping the oil price today; role of futures markets; price benchmarks
• Oil and the energy transition: How to think about the future

Oil price discovery and trading

• Oil Pricing: How does the Brent market work?; Understanding what the physical trading data represents; Methodology: How do we arrive to the price?
• Trading: The mechanics of trading physical crude
• Oil Price Forecast

Benchmarks

• Overview of Platts Oil Benchmarks and assessment methodology
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Dated Brent/Urals
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Platts Dubai/Oman

Market Outlook

• How to develop an oil price outlook, short and long term
• Value of scenario framework for forecasting
• Oil market outlook to 2024 and through 2050

Carbon Capture

• Technologies and Trends

Carbon Intensities

• Carbon Accounted Commodity
• Carbon Price Premium

Risk Management Concepts

• Approaches to Risk Management
• Risks with discretionary positioning
• Long and Short
• Basis and Outright risk
• Physical v. Financial Exposure

Basic Futures

• Futures: ecosystem and settlement
• Margins, basis and spreads

Introduction to Basis Trading

• Implications of basis
• Models for basis analysis

Overview of Options

• Basics and definitions
• Variables to determine option prices
• Profit and Loss diagrams
• Basic option strategies

Introduction to Hedging

• Hedging strategies in trading
• Basic hedging instruments

1. Energy Market Fundamentals
2. Energy Commercial Strategies
   1. Risk Management Concepts
   2. Basic Futures
      1. Introduction to Basis Trading
      2. Overview of Options
      3. Introduction to Hedging

See the big picture of the oil industry with an understanding of its structure, fundamentals, supply, and demand

Get an understanding of oil trading, pricing, and benchmarks

Create short term and long term outlooks for the oil markets, in an environment being impacted by energy transition

Develop risk management strategies for selling, purchasing, and trading uncertainties

Learn, reinforce, and refresh knowledge and skills, while hearing different industry perspectives and gauging current industry trends

Discover growth opportunities by building confidence to engage more pro-actively with colleagues, senior management, customers, and suppliers on current and future market conditions.

Opportunity to develop professional network of industry participants.

Oil Market Fundamentals

• Global energy fundamentals: global energy supply & demand;
• Structure of the world oil industry
• World oil market fundamentals (part 1): Oil market history; oil demand and supply; forces shaping future of world oil demand; history of oil supply regulation; US Shale; Emergence of OPEC+
• World oil market fundamentals (part 2): oil price history; factors shaping the oil price today; role of futures markets; price benchmarks
• Oil and the energy transition: How to think about the future

Oil price discovery and trading

• Oil Pricing: How does the Brent market work?; Understanding what the physical trading data represents; Methodology: How do we arrive to the price?
• Trading: The mechanics of trading physical crude
• Oil Price Forecast

Benchmarks

• Overview of Platts Oil Benchmarks and assessment methodology
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Dated Brent/Urals
• Update on Platts Benchmarks: Platts Dubai/Oman

Market Outlook

• How to develop an oil price outlook, short and long term
• Value of scenario framework for forecasting
• Oil market outlook to 2024 and through 2050

Carbon Capture

• Technologies and Trends

Carbon Intensities

• Carbon Accounted Commodity
• Carbon Price Premium

Risk Management Concepts

• Approaches to Risk Management
• Risks with discretionary positioning
• Long and Short
• Basis and Outright risk
• Physical v. Financial Exposure

Basic Futures

• Futures: ecosystem and settlement
• Margins, basis and spreads

Introduction to Basis Trading

• Implications of basis
• Models for basis analysis

Overview of Options

• Basics and definitions
• Variables to determine option prices
• Profit and Loss diagrams
• Basic option strategies

Introduction to Hedging

• Hedging strategies in trading
• Basic hedging instruments

• Crude Oil Grades & Qualities
• Refined Products and their Qualities
• Refining Configurations & “Complexity”
• Refinery Technology
• Refined Product Price Formation
• Crude Oil Valuation
• Refinery Margin Calculations
• Short-term Market Outlook
• Responding to Near-term Changes
• Long-term Market Outlook
• Refining & Petrochemical Integration
• Greener Refiners

1. Crude Oil Grades & Qualities
2. Refined Products and their Qualities
3. Refining Configurations & "Complexity."
4. Refinery Technology
5. Refined Product Price Formation
6. Crude Oil Valuation
7. Refinery Margin Calculations
8. Short-term Market Outlook
9. Responding to Near-term Changes
10. Long-term Market Outlook
11. Refining & Petrochemical Integration
12. Greener Refiners