International Gas Business Management
Course Code: OG17
Course Objective
- An understanding of the value added steps in the gas processes
- Gain an insight in the way the Gas Industries have organized to operate effectively and efficiently
- Learn the details of gas processing
- Understand the fundamentals of the economics of the gas industries
Target Audience
- Managers
- Functional managers
- Gas Managers
Course Outline
Day 1
- Sources Origins and Nature of Hydrocarbon Gas
- Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
- Definition of Hydrocarbon Gases
- The Gas Industry
- Basic Gas Geology
- Origins of Hydrocarbon Deposits
- Exploration Activities
- Exploration Methods
- Types of Well
Day 2
- Sources Origin and Nature of Hydrocarbon Gas - Continued
- Gas Fields Developments
- Production
- Well Fluids and Surface production
- Transportation
- Ship Transportation
- Pipelines
- Exploration Drilling & Production
- Where and how does drilling take place?
- Gas leasing process and terms
- Searching for Oil and Gas
- Types of Wells
- Drilling Operations
- Natural Gas Production and Processing Operations
- Gas Companies, Corporate Relations, and Structures
Day 3
- Operating Companies and Service Companies
- Local, National and Multi National Gas Companies
- Major National Gas Companies
- Major International Gas Companies
- Integrated and Non Integrated Companies
- Integrated Companies
- Non Integrated Companies
- Processing Operations and Economics
- Gas Processing Operations
- Inlet Separation
- SulphurRemoval andSulphurRecovery
- Dehydration
- Dewpoint Control and by-product recovery
- Gas Compression
- Basic Economics of the Gas Industries
- Gas Quality and Measurement
- Richness
- Impurities
- Sulphur
- Acidity
- Specifications
- World Gas Supply and Demand
Day 4
- Supply Chain
- Production
- Transport
- Storage
- Distribution
- Sales and Marketing
- Evaluation of Gas Opportunities
- Estimating the Cost of Gas Facilities
- Using Historical Costs
- Cost curves
- Adjusting For Different Sizes
- Adjusting For Different Time Periods
- LNG –LNG Chain
Day 5
- Process
- Liquefaction
- Shipping
- Storage
- Re-Gasification
- Other Technologies
- Gas to Liquids
- Gas Commodity and Transport Capacity
- Industry Regulation
- Ownership
- State owned
- Joint Ventures
- Privatised
- Price Controls
- Rate of Return
- Gas for Power Generation
- The ‘Dash for Gas’ – key drivers
- Economics: CCGT v Oil v Coal v Nuclear
- Efficiency Gains
- Cost and Market Trends
- Gas Supply
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