THE GAS TRADER ACADEMY
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Workshop
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Level
Intermediate
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Location
London
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Class hours
40h
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Duration
5 Days
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Start date
Different dates available
The programme is accredited by the British Energy Institute. The course participants will be issued 80 CPD credits International Industry Certificate of the IBH and ICE Futures
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About this course
The course is brought to you by ICE Education and IBH. The academy is delivered by an expert team of analysts and recent market practitioners where their knowledge and skills have been translated into a highly practical course covering the European and increasingly global gas markets.During days 3 to 5 you will have the full trader experience, undergoing the full range of emotions. You will receive one-to-one coaching, from members of the delivery team, where appropriate to ensure you have full understanding of the trading concepts and get the most from the simulation exercises.
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Subjects
- Trading
- Natural Gas
Teachers and trainers (4)
Chris Holmes
Gas Trader
Chris Holmes was most recently Head of Gas Trading at JP Morgan and was involved in all aspects of the physical and derivative gas business from proprietary trading through to asset optimisation. Prior to this he held the position of Head of Gas Trading at RBS Sempra. Chris began trading at BP and has a wealth of experience in physical gas storage and transport optimisation as well as an excellent understanding of embedded options, physical LNG trading and derivative experience.
Damian Faulkner
Gas and Power Trader
Damian has over ten years experience in the gas and power industry working for ExxonMobil, Enron and BP in a variety of back and front office roles. During his time at BP, Damian was a Contract Manager for a large Power Station as well as the senior UK power trader, trading the prompt, curve and interconnector electricity markets, as well as the carbon emissions element of the clean spark spreads. Later moved on to trade the UK gas curve and finally the European gas curve covering France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands , Belgium and France.
David Glasspool
Head of Gas Operating
David Glasspool has ten years experience in the front office, operating and then trading gas for Enron, BP and EGL and has presented and assessed on courses whilst at both BP and SGT. David was involved in all aspects of the value chain, booking physical and virtual storage, managing European swing contracts, upstream assets, and executing orders for internal customers such as LNG.
David Long
trader
David Long is an independent consultant, writer and lecturer specialising in the oil, natural gas and emissions trading markets. He is the editor of the Oil Trading Manual (OTM), a widely-used and well-known comprehensive guide to the world oil market, and the Gas Trading Manual (GTM), a companion volume on the gas market.
Course programme
DAY 1
Natural Gas — Introduction
- Natural gas in the hydrocarbons sequence: from methane to complex long-chain hydrocarbons
- Where natural gas, LPGs, and crude oil fit and how they are related
- Natural gas, associated gas, shale gas: is there any difference?
- What is shale gas and why is it ‘unconventional’?
- Natural gas liquids and liquefied petroleum gases (NGLs & LPG)
- Measuring natural gas
- Introducing the differences between oil and gas from a materials & energy point of view
- LNG
Natural Gas and Oil
- Different energy properties: different uses (energy density, volume considerations, containment and pollution)
- The question of transportation: how oil and gas are transported to market, the difference between transportation methods
Natural Gas — Reserves and Production
- Distribution of global natural gas reserves and Kazakhstan’s place in the hierarchy
- Regional gas production histories
- Natural gas production
- Associated gas and the pressures to reduce flaring
- Shale gas production techniques and how they differ from traditional methods
- The impact of problems of gas storage on production
- Turning raw wellhead gas into saleable products
Natural Gas — Transportation
- Transporting natural gas: pipelines, compression, liquefaction
- Gas pipelines
- Major gas pipelines of the world
- LNG
- LNG delivery chain: liquefaction, transportation, regasification
- Worldwide liquefaction and regasification terminals
- Recent trends and the impact of shale gas
- Advantages and disadvantages of pipelines vs. LNG
- Compression as an alternative to liquefaction
Gas Consumption
- The world’s major gas users
- By region / country
- By sector - power generation / industrial heat / domestic heating and cooking / transportation?
- Gas distribution and use power generation, petrochemicals, industrial heat, domestic heat, future vehicle fuels) gas-to- power and gas-to-liquids (GTL)
- Gas as a petrochemicals feedstock
Gas Storage and Distribution
- Gas storage facilities
- The seasonal nature of gas demand
- Managing gas flows
DAY 2
The Shale Gas Phenomenon
- North American resources and production
- Can the North American experience be repeated elsewhere?
Commercialisation of Natural Gas
- Gas sales and marketing strategy, negotiations
Gas Pricing and Contracts
- Gas market structures
- Gas-on-gas competition/liberalised markets: North America/UK
- Prices linked to competing fuels – Europe / SE Asia
- Prices linked to oil: Japan / Korea / Taiwan
- Regulated prices: Middle East / Russia / China
Gas Sales Arrangements
- Long-term contracts
- Spot sales
Gas Balancing Game
International Gas Trade
Gas Sales and Transportation Contracts
- Gas sales agreements
- Length of term
- Quantity
- Price terms
- Delivery point
- Delivery obligations
- Take-or-pay / ship-or-pay obligations
- Gas quality
- Renegotiation opportunities
Pricing and Formulas Used In Gas Industry, Benchmark Prices
- US: Henry Hub
- Europe: oil price linkage vs. hub pricing (NBP, TTF, etc.)
- Asia: Japanese Crude Cocktail
Gas Trading Hubs
DAY 3
Negotiation Exercise
- Game theory
Natural Gas Price Drivers
- Heating/Cooling Demand
- Power Generation
- Macro Factors
- Interconnections
- LNG imports
- Sentiment
- Price of competing fuels
Good Trading Discipline
- Trading Terminology
- Trading rules
- What can go wrong?
Flat Price Trading
- Challenges of flat price trading
- Trading Simulation
Technical Trading Techniques
- Different types of charts
- Trends
- Support and Resistance
- Retracements
- Candlestick patterns
- Moving Averages
- Trading Simulation
DAY 4
Speculative Spread trading
- What are spreads?
- Why do traders use spreads?
- Geographical gas spreads
- Gas time spreads
- Contango/Backwardation
- Trading Simulation
Monetising Transport Capacity
- Transport Costs
- The impact of FX
- Valuing transport capacity
- The importance of volatility
- Trading Simulation
Valuing a storage asset
- Storage Costs
- Standard Bundled Units
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value
- Hedging storage capacity
Monetising Storage Capacity
- How do traders make money?
- Rolling hedges
- Considerations when optimising
- Trading Simulation
DAY 5
Introduction to LNG Trading
- How is LNG traded?
- Price Drivers
- Shipping Terminology
Simple LNG Arbitrage
- Fixed price arbitrage
- Chartering a vessel
- The impact of FX
- Trading Simulation
Floating Prices
- Marker Prices
Complex LNG Arbitrage
- Hedging
- Trading Simulation
Additional information
THE GAS TRADER ACADEMY