This training course will highlight:

• LNG Market fundamentals analysis
• LNG Pricing methods
• LNG projects' economic evaluation
• LNG supply, trading & hedging strategies
• Natural gas and LNG markets
• Understand regional LNG pricing effects
• Learn what LNG derivatives are and how these are used for hedging and trading purposes

LNG Markets, Pricing and Hedging training course aims to help delegates from the gas industry achieve the following objectives:

• Develop essential skills of how the LNG, industry functions
• Understand the business drivers behind the LNG sector
• Acquire knowledge about the different types of contracts that may be used in Gas and LNG operations
• Assess the contractual risks that may appear in Gas and LNG contracts, and learn how to manage those risks
• Understand LNG and Gas contracts
• Comprehend gas market developments

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Personnel involved in creating or negotiating petroleum or gas contracts
• Procurement managers and executives involved in purchasing decisions
• Sales Personnel
• Market Analysts
• LNG Plants Professionals

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities
 to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

Day One: LNG Markets

• Chemistry of oil and gas
• Characteristics of natural gas
• Liquefaction & Regasification Plant Technology
• Sales gas and product specifications
• LNG Quality (GCV, Impurities, etc.)
• Natural Gas Value Chain
• LNG Imports / exports Outlook by Region

Day Two: Environment

• Promotion of natural gas to meet future world energy demands
• Energy strategy and natural gas
• Natural gas market developments
• Essential Logistics of LNG
• Natural gas role in the international energy industry and security of supply and demand
• Environmental regulations boost the competitiveness of gas in the electric power mix
• Natural gas v’s coal and oil on the impact of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change

 Day Three: LNG Sales and Marketing

• LNG and global sustainable development
• LNG Sales and Marketing
• LNG Project Financing and Project Management
• LNG Agreements
• LNG Market Fundamentals
• LNG Projects' Economics
• China and India are leading the way globally in LNG demand growth

Day Four: LNG Future

• The Future Trends in Natural Gas
• LNG’s role in the international gas trade
• The Role of U.S. Natural Gas in the Global Marketplace
• The Competitive Landscape for LNG
• Reasons to develop an LNG trading market
• LNG’ s suitability for trading
• Growth of spot trading

 Day Five: LNG Pricing

• Price transparency
• LNG Supply, Trading & Hedging Strategies
• LNG derivatives – Futures, Options and Swaps
• Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Prices
• Price Slopes, Maximum Available Netback Prices, Proxy Curves, etc.
• Can U.S. LNG exports to central Europe compete with Russian piped gas in terms of price?

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80 % of the total course duration.