Consulting and Bespoke Courses
With our broad knowledge of energy markets and our long experience of providing interactive workshops to audiences all over the world, we are well placed to meet your needs for education and training, however small or large.
The following are some examples of projects we have completed.
Kick-start workshop on energy markets for new graduates
A European energy company, which hires a large batch of new graduates every year, asked us to put together a short, intensive course in energy commodities and their markets, and an introduction to how energy trading works. We designed a program of full-day and half-day modules that would be presented to different groups, along with other internal training, during their induction period, to quickly bring a diverse group of highly intelligent, motivated young people rapidly up to speed with the key terminology, facts, and concepts of the industry. We have been running and developing this program for nearly a decade. Alumni tell us that our classes were by far the most useful aspect of their induction process!
Competitive games for annual sales meeting
An energy market information company asked us to run a session of competitive team games as part of their annual global meeting of around 100 people in sales and marketing roles. We devised a series of fun challenges, which also embodied key learning points about the industry. This included a game in which teams had to make choices to guide a company through the energy transition, transforming (if they wished) an oil and gas company into a cleaner, greener firm by investing in renewables, hydrogen, and carbon capture.
European gas markets briefing for busy professionals
A company providing professional services to trading markets asked us to write a concise guide to European gas markets that could be used to bring a small but geographically dispersed team up to speed with the basic knowledge and terminology that they needed to talk credibly to gas traders while expanding their existing services into the gas markets. We put together a 15-page quick-start guide designed to communicate essential basic knowledge, together with the kind of historical perspective that an industry insider would have, and an introduction to some current issues that traders might be concerned about, all in a highly readable form. A London-based team member told us it had become his preferred reading material for his daily commute to work!
National Oil Company trading workshops
An African oil producing company wanted to develop a better in-house understanding of oil trading, so that both experienced managers and new joiners in finance, operations and commercial roles would know more about what happens to their oil once it leaves the loading port. In particular, they wanted to understand how the trading companies and refiners that buy their crude oil view the market, and what strategies they use to make money. We put together a program of workshops that we ran over a three week period, covering crude trading, refining, derivatives markets, hedging and risk management, with a final assessment examination.
