This course therefore focuses on the essential skills and techniques required to enable you to make appropriate strategic decisions to maximize profit, reduce costs and financial risks. This course will feature:

• The current and future challenges within the sector
• The strategic decisions facing companies in this challenging environment & the techniques to enable informed strategic decision making
• Financing strategies to determine the optimum capital structure and undertake capital investment appraisal to maximizing shareholder wealth
• Strategies to reduce and/or eliminate financial risk
• Strategies to manage new initiatives to ensure companies met their strategic aims and objectives

This course therefore focuses on the essential skills and techniques required to enable you to make appropriate strategic decisions to maximize profit, reduce costs and financial risks. This course will feature:

• The current and future challenges within the sector
• The strategic decisions facing companies in this challenging environment & the techniques to enable informed strategic decision making
• Financing strategies to determine the optimum capital structure and undertake capital investment appraisal to maximizing shareholder wealth
• Strategies to reduce and/or eliminate financial risk
• Strategies to manage new initiatives to ensure companies met their strategic aims and objectives

Finance Professionals, Finance Managers, Chief Accountants, Senior Accountants, Accountants, Corporate Accountants, Accounting & Budgeting Personnel, Corporate

Strategic Issues Facing the Oil & Gas Sector

• The nature of the oil and gas sector
• Current & future challenges within the sector – a question of supply & demand
• Volatility: demand, energy prices, exchange rates, interest rates
• Resources & reserves and the need for research & development
• Financial issues impacting on strategic development and growth

Advanced Strategic Decisions

• Strategic planning and decision making in a volatile market
• Analytical tools to aid strategic planning and decision making
• Diversifying income streams – balancing upstream, midstream & downstream
• Growth strategies: exploration, diversification, vertical & horizontal integration
• Mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, production sharing agreements & strategic alliances

Financing Strategies in the Oil & Gas Sector

• Sources of finance – the optimum capital structure and the cost of capital
• Capital investment appraisal: NPV, IRR, Modified IRR, Payback
• Financial forecasting and analysis in Excel
• Managing uncertainty of production, prices, capital costs & construction delays
• Modelling energy prices in capital budgeting

Financial Risk Management Strategies

• Developing and implementing a risk management strategy
• Risk analysis of oil and gas projects using Excel
• Sensitivity analysis, sensitivity charts and scenario analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation
• Hedging energy prices; interest rates and foreign exchange rates using financial derivatives
• Accounting for hedging under IFRS

Project Management to Meet Strategic Aims & Objectives

• Estimating activity durations and costs using statistical and probability estimates
• Critical path and manpower planning
• Earned value analysis
• Budgetary control and variance analysis
• Implementing and managing change, suspension or shut downs

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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