Analysing Oil Market Volatility and Financial Hedging Strategies

Course Overview

Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how oil market volatility and hedging is controlled. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on volatility and hedging both accrue interest. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations, not around theory headings. What blocks progress on oil market volatility and hedging is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. Participants test their assumptions about this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Participants gain a realistic view of what volatility and hedging costs and what it returns. The professional literature on oil market volatility and hedging converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on volatility and hedging are used deliberately. The final session converts the week's work on the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline into commitments with owners and dates.