Recent policy decisions have increased investment in renewable energy technologies, creating new challenges and opportunities for the power systems and market players. The rise in wind and solar deployment in power systems, originally built for firm generation, creates potential complications and is forcing regulators and companies alike to adopt a multi-technology strategy. On the other hand, growing geopolitical fractures are reshaping cleantech supply chains and cost structures, making innovation a key enabler for the transformation.

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Course Outline

• Industry Structure and Regulation

• Electricity supply and demand trends

• Clean power technologies

• Costs / Supply chains / Prices and revenue

• Outlooks

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The shift to affordable, clean energy is rapidly changing power systems worldwide. Increasing shares of variable renewables are pushing regulators and companies alike to adopt a multi-technology strategy. At the same time, growing geopolitical fractures are reshaping cleantech supply chains and cost structures. In this dynamic setting, innovation remains key with existing technologies becoming cheaper and more performant, with innovations on the horizon that could potentially transform the cleantech landscape.

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Course Outline

• Overview of clean power technologies

• Overview of clean power technologies

• Costs and supply chains

• Industry trends and disruptions

• Renewables and green tech outlooks/b>

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With careful design and implementation, carbon markets can be crucial in transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Learn how, despite the challenges, carbon markets offer a significant opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

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Course Outline

• Carbon Market Fundamentals
• Compliance Carbon Markets & Pricing
• The Voluntary Carbon Markets
• Article 6 & Global Carbon Linkages

• Carbon Pricing
• Carbon Markets and Pricing Overview
• How do Carbon Markets and Pricing fit within Global Climate Policy?

• Carbon Scenarios
• Fundamentals of net-zero
• Understand net-zero cases and how they translate into potential GHG emissions outcomes that could arise in uncertain markets

• Carbon Accounting
• Cross-cutting view of carbon intensity for different commodities;
• Different frameworks, use cases and how industries can apply carbon accounting

• Carbon Registries
• Overview of critical infrastructure required to manage global carbon in a centralized, financial markets-based registry system
• Nature-based Solutions & Biodiversity

• Opportunities for industry
• Overview of the sustainability products, insights, and solutions helping companies meet their needs in the carbon ecosystem
• Corporate strategies for carbon management
• Carbon market Investments; NBS & Biodiversity Potential

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Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a key technology that can reduce emissions in key emitting sectors, remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and support the development of CO2-based products. This course will provide an overview of the market and technology trends and key concepts to differentiate the challenges and opportunities that different sectors face while implementing CCUS.

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Course Outline

• Status of the CCUS Market
• The potential role of CCUS in the energy transition
• Overview of current market conditions
• Summary of global policy

• The CCUS Value Chain
• Overview of the value chain
• Global CCUS project pipeline progress by segment
• Cost analysis of CO2 capture, transportation, and storage
• Overview of CO2 utilization

• CCUS trends in chemicals and fuels applications
• Overview of the market dynamics between low-carbon fuels and CO2 use
• Supply and demand balance for CO2 utilization by 2030

• Engineered carbon dioxide removal
• Overview of technologies and market trends

• Long-Term Global Outlook for CO2 capture installations
• S& Global Commodity Insights’ base case outlook for both near-term (2030) and long-term (2050) CO2 capture installations
• Summary and discussion of key course topics

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Oil market experts teach this course, delivering a concise and powerful history of the oil market, oil demand and supply, and geopolitics to understand the present and how the future may unfold. It provides an overview of oil and the forces shaping the oil and energy markets as the energy transition moves ahead.

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Course Outline

• Oil Market Fundamentals
• Global energy fundamentals: global energy supply & demand
• Structure of the world oil industry
• 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+
• Market fundamentals (part 2): oil price history; factors shaping the oil price today; the 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 at 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

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The actions to meet net zero targets has increased globally, creating opportunities for those who understand the fundamentals of carbon markets and how they support the wider energy transition. Our future-focused curriculum will equip you with the tools and skills to tap into these nascent opportunities.

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Course Outline

• Carbon Market Fundamentals:
• Compliance Carbon Markets & Pricing
• Carbon trading (ETS) vs carbon tax
• Compliance markets and pricing schemes
• Regional specifics and development in key economies (G20)
• The Voluntary Carbon Markets
• Key VCM bodies, stakeholders and participants
• Demand-side: buyers' perspective, preferences and making claims
• Trading: ratings, exchanges, trends and barriers; Global & regional trends
• Article 6 & Global Carbon Linkages
• What is Article 6 and what does it do?
• Progress of 6.2 and 6.4 mechanisms
• EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM); Carbon clubs

• Carbon Pricing
• Carbon Markets and Pricing Overview
• Why do we need a carbon price?
• What are carbon pricing tools and how do they work?
• Overview of different features and dynamics
• How do Carbon Markets and Pricing fit within Global Climate Policy?
• Comparison of climate policy instruments
• UN frameworks; Key global institutions on carbon markets

• Carbon Scenarios
• Fundamentals of net-zero
• Understand net-zero cases and how they translate into potential GHG emissions outcomes that could arise in uncertain markets

• Carbon Accounting:
• Cross-cutting view of carbon intensity for different commodities;
• Different frameworks, use cases and how industries can apply carbon accounting

• Carbon Registries
• Detailed view of the critical infrastructure required to manage all your global carbon in a centralized, financial markets-based registry system
• Nature-based Solutions & Biodiversity
• NBS & natural climate solutions (NCS)?
• Linkages between NBS, land-use and agriculture
• Biodiversity as a metric and crediting
• Reporting requirements relating to climate and nature-based risks

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This course addresses industry profitability fundamentals, including chemical structures and properties, process technologies, cost of production methodologies, key producers, end-use applications, market sizes, and trade patterns across the petrochemical value chains.

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Course Outline

• Detailed look at the foundation of the petrochemical industry
• Feedstocks, including natural gas, NGLs, petroleum, coal, and biobased.
• Industry's 7 Basic Building Blocks: Syngas, Ethylene, Propylene, C4 Olefins, Benzene, Toluene, and Xylenes.
• Exploration of each building block's value chain.

• Downstream: a look at more specialized product areas
• 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

• Places current industry structure into historical perspective

• Interaction of technology, markets, and economics underlying the petrochemical industry

• What drives present market conditions?

• Where are future growth opportunities?

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The refining industry is changing. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of refining operations and economics and how the industry adapts to a volatile near-term market and the longer-term pressures of the energy transition.

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Course Outline

• Fundamentals of Refining
• Session 1: Refinery technical configuration and operations
• Session 2: Refinery economics and margin optimization

• Energy Transition
• Session 1: Fundamentals
• What is the definition and scope of Energy Transition?
• What are the drivers (e.g. ESG)?
• Session 2: Commercial Outlook
• What is the industry response (e.g. electric vehicles, hydrogen economy, crude-oil-to-chemicals, etc.)?
• What is the outlook, short, medium, and long term?

• Refining petrochemical interface/integration
• Session 1: Refined products as petrochemical feedstocks
• Olefins and Aromatics
• Regional balances and outlooks

• Refinery Flexibility
• Session 1: To increase the percent of the barrel to chemical feedstocks (COTC)
• Session 2: Bio-conversion is to include both coprocessing of bio-feedstocks and full bio-conversion0

• Greener Refineries Environmental Impact Overview
• Session 1: Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
• Value of scenario framework for forecasting
• Session 2: Use Greener power and hydrogen

• Refineries of the Future: Aspirational Design to Net Zero
• Session 1: Profile of refiner’s aspirational designs and technical approaches to net-zero designs
• Session 2: Quantitative impact on a world-scale refinery carbon footprint of various technical configurations and product slate considerations (e.g. inclusion of the bio-diesel, chemical decarbonization, products, renewable power generation, and/or plastics recycling via chemical pyrolysis, etc.)

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This one-day training course provides insights into the evolving biofuels landscape and its pivotal role in advancing transport decarbonization

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Course Outline

• Introduction to Biofuels and Industry Overview
• Understanding biofuels and terminology
• Energy security and the role of biofuels in mitigating climate change
• Overview of biofuel types and their global significance
• Regulations, Policies and Incentives Mechanisms for Biofuels

• Biomass Resources & Feedstocks
• 1st and 2nd generation biofuels
• Key feedstocks for biofuel production
• Biofuels Production Processes

• e-Fuels: Power-to-Liquid (PtL)
• Technology maturity assessment, scale-up risks, TRL
• For carbon-based materials: sourcing of (green) CO2 feedstocks (options, issues & technologies)
• Basic economic assessments, including projections on expected costs and their evolution
• Projected market potential of products in e-fuels

• Economics, Policies, and Environmental Impact
• Economics of biofuels and e-fuels
• Market outlook: short-term and long-term trends for biofuels and e-fuels
• Carbon intensity of biofuel, policies, and key regulations (e.g., RFS2, RED II)
• Key challenges, opportunities, and the role of biofuels in energy transition

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