Company Training

Case Studies

Successfully developing an LNG Business whilst considering GTLs

Our oil and gas client plans to establish a significant business within the LNG sector. With already significant commitments to equity and capacity participation in re-gasification. The client wanted to ensure that the new capacity and its other gas and LNG activities aligned towards the creation of a successful LNG business. The course included an introduction to Gas - To - Liquids and in particular whether and how GTL and LNG projects compete with each other for access to gas reserves and finance.

Engaging with Regulators and Policy Makers

Client's regulatory affairs staff in India needed the necessary background to engage with national regulators and policy-makers on diverse regulatory issues, and to ensure developments proposed could lead to a stable regulatory regime within which Client could be a confident investor.

Alphatania tailored a programme placing regulation in the context of Client country's specific market structures, regulatory competences and institutional effectiveness. Alphatania also considered the need of India to rapidly expand its natural gas infrastructure and the fact that the industry operates in very different competitive spaces, with coal a major competitor.

Case Study: Developing an independent storage business

Our client wants to establish an independent gas storage business.The client wanted to understand the value in the storage business given the current environment of volatile gas markets. The client also wished to understand how storage could add value to its gas trading business. The course included an introduction to the storage business, a discourse on the storage business models in different markets and the way traders typically use storage to generate value.The course was particularly useful for the client in understanding the key value drivers for the storage business under the prevailing market conditions.

Case Study: Introduction to Gas and Power

Client had hired new staff in both junior and support positions in their Resources and Development team, requiring a high level introduction to gas and power, and to equip everyone with general insight into the industry.

A few members of Client's Human Resources team attended the public training course ' introduction to Gas and Power' in order to validate the programme's relevance to their own training requirements.

The Introduction to Gas and Power programme was implemented in the Client's team and two in-house programmes were successfully run on location, splitting their group of 30 participants.

Case Study: Modern Gas Markets

A global energy player wished to develop its analysts' understanding on the mechanisms of the global gas market. A 3-day in-house workshop introduced participants to the key commercial elements underlying each part of the gas value chain.

Special focus was brought to project financing and risk management through real-life cases simulation, in order to coach participants on a core area of their business, and to enhance their strategic thinking, within a global context.

Case Study: Operational Training

Alphatania has been involved in the provision of bespoke operational training to a major LNG producer in the process of expanding its commercial administration team to deal with the additional challenges brought on by its expansion into new gas markets.

Alphatania delivered this training in the form of ‘war games’, working in collaboration with the client’s staff to highlight areas of process administration particularly in terms of contract portfolio management, which would benefit from increased levels of robustness and improved commercial acumen within the team.