Managing Financial Derivative Contracts in Energy Markets

Course Overview

The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in energy derivative contracts; it has added to it. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is controlled. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations before they become incidents. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for energy derivative contracts, not for observers of it. The professional literature on the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Progress on energy derivative contracts is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline, not around theory headings. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda ready to put in front of a decision maker.