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Navigate global oil flows—understand markets, risk, and trading dynamics from wellhead to vessel.
This immersive 5-day programme delivers a comprehensive deep dive into upstream operations, refining economics, trading mechanics, and risk management across international crude and refined products markets. Delegates engage with real-world exercises, LP modelling, contract simulations, market insight labs, and peer discussion—emerging ready to influence value chain and asset-level decision-making.
Why this course is important
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Master the full value chain: Obtain clarity on exploration, refining, logistics, and trading—vital for integrated commercial and technical roles.
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Navigate volatile markets: As price swings intensify, structured risk and hedging capabilities help safeguard profitability.
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Sharpen commercial impact: Professional trading skills—from contract terms to benchmark assessment—equip participants to negotiate strategically and improve margin.
Who should attend
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Business development, sales, marketing, and trading professionals in oil and energy
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Finance, risk, and treasury managers accountable for commodity exposure
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Refinery planners and commercial teams aiming to boost throughput and margin
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Technical advisors, geoscientists, and engineers seeking commercial context to support project economics
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Regulators, legal practitioners, and contract negotiators in the energy sector
What you will learn
Day-by-day immersive learning includes:
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Upstream operations & market fundamentals
– Geological formation, drilling basics, crude assays, and global production/reserves dynamics -
Crude oil trading mechanics
– Evolution of pricing systems, spot vs formula vs benchmarks, Brent market layers, contract structuring -
Refined product markets
– Freight and Worldscale contracts, arbitrage, product pricing, netback-margin logic, capacity & quality analysis -
Risk & price management techniques
– Price risk measurement, hedging strategies using forwards, futures, swaps, options, and crack spreads -
International trade frameworks
– Trade law, WTO, shipping regulations, dispute resolution, and trading norms across major hubs (US, UK, Singapore)










