LNG Markets, Pricing and Hedging

What are the Goals?

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

Who is this Training Course for?

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

Daily Agenda

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?