Public Training

The Fundamentals of Commercial Gas Storage

Courses Dates

29 - 30 September 2009 - Hilton Budapest Westend, Budapest, Hungary

Course Information

We are seeing unprecedented commercial activity within gas storage, but there are still complexities in the gas storage industry and professionals working in the storage industry face big questions:

How much gas storage needs to be built and will be built?
What will the seasonal price differentials in the short to medium term be and will they emerge with the advent of traded hubs?
How much LNG will flow to Europe, Asia or the US markets?
What will the future rate of gas demand be?

Gas Storage is now about extracting value from your asset and optimising it be it real or virtual, short or long term, or as a storage operator or a gas shipper developing your portfolio.

At this 2-day training course you will walk through the fundamentals of the conceptual storage framework and unravel the physical from the commercial elements of gas storage. Attending this course will equip you with the tools you require to understand the role of gas storage in risk management and trading

What’s in it for you?

Working through business models to identify ‘best fit’ opportunities for your business from valuation to risk management and trading.
Gaining real insight into how gas storage interacts with a gas market.
Understanding how to create value from different types of gas storage within the context of the wider flexibility market.
Opportunities to discuss live industry issues with delegates and course leaders active in today’s market.

After the course you will understand

How to attain commercial value from the various types of gas storage
available to shippers.
The value in different forms of physical gas storage and depleted fields for investors and users.
The creation and use of virtual gas storage techniques
The use of gas storage tools and trading operations to exploit seasonal and flexible arbitrage opportunities.
Gas storage as a risk management tool.
Investment in physical gas storage,ensuring an adequate ROI and minimising risk of non-utilisation.

Download Course Brochure

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Powerful Learning Platform

The Fundamentals of Commercial Gas Storage is carefully structured to give you the maximum learning benefit. The training courses will challenge, shape and maximise your understanding of the commercial gas storage industry:

Thought provoking discussion
Individual and group exercises
Real life case studies

Expert Faculty Connecting with Delegates

The Fundamentals of Commercial Gas Storage team has wide-ranging experience across the entire gas value chain, with expertise in investment in gas storage, valuation and contractual arrangements, supply/demand forecasting, upstream and downstream regulation and risk management.