Oil market experts, deliver 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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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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LNG Demand-supply dynamics are undergoing seismic changes in major markets - Asia, Europe and Americas. This course equips learners with a fundamental understanding of how the global LNG markets are structured, the setting of regional LNG prices and how low-carbon fuels will increasingly play an important role in decarbonizing part of the energy system transitioning away from fossil fuels.

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Course Outline

• History of LNG
  • Properties, containment systems and development

• Current landscape of LNG Chain
  • Buyers, sellers, traders
  • Project structures and their capacity to meet future demand

• LNG Value Chain
  • Supply chain overview - from liquefaction to regasification
  • Regasification Market
  • Carbon and methane emissions

• LNG supply and demand fundamentals
  • Key producing regions and markets

• LNG Pricing
  • Commercial contracts and pricing formula mechanisms
  • Contract vs. spot
  • Contracting Trends
  • Key drivers behind pricing outlook

• LNG Shipping
  • Trade: How it works
  • Shipping from a trade perspective

• LNG & Competing Fuels
  • Hydrogen
  • Biofuels

• Short- and long-term Market Outlook

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The course will cover current and emerging process technology, energy transition issues, and industry developments concerning decarbonization. It provides the learner with a complete understanding of the biofuels value chain from agriculture, biofuel manufacturing, and downstream into retail transportation fuels and the impact on chemicals markets.

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Course Outline

• Introduction to Biofuels
  • Historical development of biofuels
  • Biofuel Policies and regulations

• Biofuels Market

• The Role of Agriculture
  • Agricultural feedstocks
  • Technology and Agricultural feedstocks

• Fundamental Biofuel Technologies
  • 1st Generation Bioethanol AND 1st Generation Biodiesel
  • Alternative feedstocks for biofuel production

• Advanced Biofuels Technologies
  • Advanced bioethanol
  • 2nd Generation/advanced biodiesel and jet fuel

• Biofuel Demand & Outlook

• Decarbonization: Role of Biofuels in Refinery & Chemicals Production
  • The Changing Nature of Refining and its Impact on Biofuels
  • Adding Value to Biofuels and Selected; Biofuel Byproducts

• e-Fuels: Power-to-Liquid
  • Technology maturity assessment, scale-up risks
  • Basic economic assessments, including projections on expected costs and their evolution
  • Projected market potential of products in e-fuels

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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

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  Instructor:

  Roman Kramarchuk,
  Head Climate Markets & Policy Analysis, S& Global Commodity Insights,
  S&P Global Commodity Insights

  Location:

  Singapore, SG

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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