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Executive Briefing: Statistical Approach to Evaluating Unconventional Resource Plays
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29th September 2010,
London
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About the workshop leader:
Ramona Hovey – Sr. Vice President, Products and Services, Drillinginfo, Inc
Ramona has a diverse background in the energy business. She began her career with ARCO Oil & Gas as a drilling engineer and then as a natural gas trader. She joined Drillinginfo in 2002. Ramona started DrillingInfo’s researc |
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Executive Briefing: Waste Collection Challenge
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5th October 2010,
London
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Aim of the workshop:
To consider the optimum methods of collection that can or should be used for different types of house or business environment, (high density, low density, rural, high street or industrial estate) and the resultant infrastructure needed to support them to optimise the product qualities for each potential form of energy recovery.
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Executive Briefing: Technology and Economics Promise a Brighter Decade for GTL
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26th October 2010,
London
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Aim of the workshop:
The commissioning of Shell's massive Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) project in Qatar is imparting new momentum to an industry that has seen its share of disappointments over the past decade. Pearl will more than double world-wide production of GTL. It will also make billions of dollars a year for Shell.
As the industry looks to the coming decade, the fundamentals are lining up in favour o |
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Executive Briefing: Extracting every ounce of value from your most critical information assets
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2nd November 2010,
London
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Organisations in the energy sector face data management challenges that are truly unique and daunting. Because exploration and production is data-intensive (and that data needs to be retained for decades) organisations accumulate vast quantities of information, which is costly to acquire and indispensable in establishing the characteristics and value of energy assets.
Yet this data is typically s |
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Executive Briefing: Financial Modelling in Excel: An Intense Overview
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24th November 2010,
London
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This workshop provides an intense overview of many areas of modelling within the Excel environment, and aims to touch on all key areas of modelling which are relevant at the intermediate and advanced levels. It covers topics such as best practices in model formulation, design and implementation, model auditing, sensitivity analysis and optimisation, selected ke |
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Executive Briefing: Elements for a successful eCommerce initiative in the Oil and Gas industry
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1st December 2010,
London
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This workshop covers the fundamental principles an organisation will need to consider in implementing an Ecommerce strategy for the Oil and Gas supply Chain. The morning will include coverage of the necessary steps, best practice and lessons learned in relation to the importance of data management and quality, understanding your supplier and their appetite for eCommerce. We will also cover how to effectively implement as well as realise your..... |
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Masterclass: Legal issues in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry
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2nd December 2010,
London
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Introduction
Nigeria has one of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves. It is also one of the most challenging environments to do business. In spite of the challenges, exploration and development of crude oil as well as utilisation of natural gas is increasing.
This Masterclass will provide an overview of the law and regulation of the Nigerian oil and g |
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Masterclass: Future Outlook and Global Markets for Coal to Liquid (CTL) Technologies
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3rd December 2010,
London
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Overview:
CTL technologies have a long and distinguished pedigree – being initially developed in Europe during the first three decades of the Twentieth Century.
A wide spectrum of liquid fuels and other chemicals can be produced from coal - but these processes became uneconomic in the post-World War II e |
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Masterclass: Portfolio Optimisation in the Oil and Gas Industry
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8th December 2010,
London
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Securing a viable future for any business starts with the definition of aspirations and the development of a number of achievable objectives. An important aspect of the development and execution of a strategic plan is the process of allocating resources among the various projects or busines |
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Masterclass: Building Flexible Project Finance Models in Oil and Gas – Tools and Techniques
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9th December 2010,
London
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This workshop covers practical tools that can be applied in order to create project finance models in Excel® that are flexible, reusable, error-free, easy to understand and share, and which provide the relevant sensitivity analysis for decision-making purposes.
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Masterclass: Will FLNG ever be a reality
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9th July 2010,
London
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Overview:
This masterclass will present and discuss elements that are going to determine the success of Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) in these uncertain economic times. The course will cover technical and financing aspects of how you can actually bring your FLNG projects forward and ens |
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Masterclass: Introduction to Project Finance
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8th July 2010,
London
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Project finance is not only one of the most popular methods of raising finance for major energy, infrastructure and transport projects, but also one of the safest kinds of structured credit for banks. This masterclass will introduce the funda |
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Masterclass: Applying Military Planning and Intelligence to Business
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10th December 2009,
London
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Mars Omega Ltd, formed by two ex-military officers has developed a tool to assist planning, intelligence and operations in a commercial context. Their experience of commerce has been forged in the difficult operating environment of the Niger Delta where "reading" the situation correctly is very difficult. The workshop will use the tool developed by Mars Omega as a framework to generate debate on the value of applying military C2I..... |
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Masterclass: Effective Management of the Planning and Permitting Regime for EfW Facilities
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9th December 2009,
London
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Energy from Waste (EfW) has seen a huge push in recent years as local authorities across the UK start to embrace this solution to energy generation and overgrowing landfill sites. However, accompanying these benefits sees this promising sector continuing to face a number of challenges. One of the main obstacles for any stake |
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Masterclass: E&P Real-time Production Monitoring
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8th December 2009,
London
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OVERVIEW
Production monitoring is the basis of production optimisation of oil and gas assets. Many assets nowadays have monitoring equipment and real-time data acquisition systems available that generate large amounts of real-time production da |
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Masterclass: Introduction to Project Finance
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3rd December 2009,
London
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Project finance is not only one of the most popular methods of raising finance for major energy, infrastructure and transport projects, but also one of the safest kinds of structured credit for banks. This masterclass will introduce the fundamental drivers and techniques of successful project financings, and discuss how borrowers can achieve the best terms and loan pricing in the current project finance market.
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Masterclass: Legal Questions Arising from International Energy Transit
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2nd December 2009,
London
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The Transit of oil or gas is a big technical challenge. Energy commodities sometimes have to be transported over several thousand kilometres from the source to the consumer. An efficient energy transit is an important cornerstone for security of supply. It therefore requires a legal framework which facilitates the free movement of energy commodities |
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Masterclass: Introduction to Project Finance
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7th July 2009,
London
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Project finance is not only one of the most popular methods of raising finance for major energy, infrastructure and transport projects, but also one of the safest kinds of structured credit for banks. This masterclass will introduce the fundamental drivers and techniques of successful project financings, and discuss how borrowers can achieve the best terms and loan pricing in the current project finance market. |
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Masterclass: Digging Deep: Communication Strategies around Carbon Capture & Storage
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1st July 2009,
London
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Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) will be one of the most important public policy issues of the next decade in Europe and beyond. If CCS can win sufficient support in government, industry, science and the wider public, it could become one of the most effective weapons in the ongoing battle against climate change. Without it, achieving the European targets of a 20% cut in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2020 will be much more difficult. |
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Masterclass: Financing Renewable Energy Projects in a Post Credit Crunch Environment
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7th April 2009,
London
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This half day workshop will provide delegates with the opportunity to discuss the commercial and technical challenges facing the financing of renewable energy projects with some of the leading experts advising banks and investors worldwide. The workshop will assist developers, investors and lenders in their understanding of how best to develop and implement renewable energy projects in such a way as to remove or avoid issues and risks which..... |
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Masterclass: Introduction to Project Finance
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4th December 2008,
London
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Project finance is not only one of the most popular methods of raising finance for major energy, infrastructure and transport projects, but also one of the safest kinds of structured credit for banks. This masterclass will introduce the fundamental drivers and techniques of successful project financings, and discuss how borrowers can achieve the best terms and loan pricing in the current project finance market. |
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Masterclass: Energy Security
Ensure You Identify the Threats and Mitigate the Risks!
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1st December 2008,
London
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This half day masterclass is aimed to assist professionals working in the energy industry and in the support functions such as engineering and transportation industries supporting energy companies. Threats against the energy industry are developing and increasing, while the criminal and terrorist threats are impacting other industries supporting the industry. Effective awareness and readiness measures are imperative to mitigating threats..... |
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Masterclass: E&P INFORMATION DATA MINING, MASHING & VISUALISING
A practical workshop on factors that determine efficiency and integrity
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3rd July 2008,
London
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ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS: E&P companies are continually swimming in a sea of technical data chaos. No matter how many initiatives are made to calm the waters with “data clean up” and making the data “conform” to corporate standards, new asset acquisitions, prospect audits, data room packages, etc. create new squalls to weather. Often new incoming data (or restored “old” legacy data) have serious time pressure on them to get |
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Masterclass: Introduction to Project Finance
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3rd July 2008,
London
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Project finance is not only one of the most popular methods of raising finance for major energy, infrastructure and transport projects, but also one of the safest kinds of structured credit for banks. This masterclass will introduce the fundamental drivers and techniques of successful project financings, and discuss how borrowers can achieve the best terms and loan pricing in the current project finance market. |
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Masterclass: Controlling E&P Data Capture Efficiency and Final Databank Integrity
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5th July 2007,
London
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The ever increasing volume of data being created and the high turnover in personnel in the industry means that we are constantly being faced with new (or somebody else’s) unstructured data in many forms and in many “islands”. Chaos reigns. Getting some order onto legacy data and maintaining a process by which incoming data is intuitively “filed” and subsequently “found” is at the root of data and information management. Instant access to and..... |
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Masterclass: The Future for LNG - Where is the Industry Going?
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3rd July 2007,
London
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The LNG Industry is constantly striving for cost reduction to enable more projects and to increase margins on existing developments. This Masterclass will explore the technologies behind these cost advances investigating their application, their limitations and whether they represent a blue print for the future or just a stepping stone to alternative developments. A valuable strategic view of the future of this expanding industry - not to be..... |
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