EA Academy

Training solutions for the energy market

From new energy markets participants who are learning how to unpack the complexity of markets, to seasoned analysts who want to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic, Energy Aspects Academy can help meet the full range of your training needs.


Empower your energy insights.

How this benefits you

  • Gain a better understanding of supply-demand balances and how they influence markets.
  • Mitigate risk in ever increasing volatile commodity markets.
  • Learn to make confident, data-driven decisions.
  • Translate how trading effects energy stakeholders using our in-house analysis.
  • Make connections fostering career growth
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What's included

  • In-person and online training solutions for energy commodity market participants.
  • EA Academy course booklets for future reference.
  • Networking drinks and meals during the course.
  • Post course alumni community.


Energy Markets Essentials

This course is designed for both those who are new to the energy industry and those who want to diversify their commodity knowledge. 


The EME programme helps you build a foundation in how energy markets function and trade. You can choose to attend the entire 4-day programme or pick and choose which days you would like to attend.


Topics covered

  • Crude oil and refining
  • Refined products and biofuels
  • Natural gas, power, and emissions
  • NGLs
  • Trading, physical and paper
  • Shipping and cargo tracking
EA Academy Market Essentials session
EA Academy Energy Markets Masterclass

Energy Markets Masterclasses

These topic-specific courses are designed for those who want to develop a nuanced expertise in a specific aspect of the market. 

Masterclasses will take place over multiple days, depending on the subject matter. 

Customised workshops

Tailored training programmes for an organisation that would benefit from a personalised workshop. 


The EA Academy team will work with you to design a session that will cater to the content, venue, and timeframe that fits your needs.

EA Academy Customised Workshops

Energy Markets Masterclass

Masterclass sessions are available on request

Customised workshops

Customised workshops are built around a schedule that suits you

Pricing


Energy Markets Essentials

Full course (four days): $5,000​

Singular session (one day): $1,500


Energy Markets Masterclasses

Prices start from: $1,500 per day

Agenda/ Programme


Below you can view a programme of the topics that are covered at an Energy Essentials course, or click here to view a full agenda from one of our previous courses.

  • Crude oil and refining

    Crude oil production

    • Production basics
    • Global production
    • US shale
    • Conventional production

    Refining

    • Why crude quality matters
    • Refinery complexity
    • Changes in global refining
    • Refinery economics

    Midstream, shipping and trade flows

    Storage 

    • Pipelines
    • Waterborne

    Understanding crude prices

    • Crude benchmarks 
    • Understanding flat price and structure
    • Major regional and quality spreads
    • Introduction to trading

    Interactive activities


  • Oil products

    Distillate

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Storage and seasonality
    • Pricing and trade

    Jet

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    Gasoline

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Specifications
    • Pricing and trade

    Fuels 

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    NGLs

    • Global and regional supply, demand and trade flows
    • Pricing and trade

    Interactive activities


  • Natural gas, power and emissions

    Natural gas overview

    • Gas value chain
    • Supply and end use

    North American gas market

    • Shale’s impact on production
    • Local demand and LNG exports
    • Regional trade flows and pricing

    European gas market

    • Production and imports
    • Regional power demand
    • Trade flows and pricing

    Global LNG

    • LNG trade flows
    • Asian demand
    • Exports and regasification

    LNG freight markets

    • Shipping fleet and rates

    Emissions

    • Legislation
    • Carbon markets and pricing

    Interactive activities


  • Trading

    Introduction to trading

    • Oil industry overview
    • Trading terminology
    • Exchanges and benchmarking

    Understanding the basics

    • Vanilla trading instruments
    • Term structure and spreads

    Expressing fundamental views

    • The relationship between balance and price
    • Exercise: building a tradable balance

    Physical trading

    • How physical trading works
    • Trading operations, logistics and finance
    • Introduction to hedging
    • Understanding arbitrage
    • Example of physical trading

    Paper trading 

    • Paper trading participants
    • Breaking down speculative length
    • Risk management and drawdowns

    Interactive activities


EA - Samer Mosis Head of Fundamentals
Chris Corda - Head of Markets
Trevor Sikorski - Head of Natural Gas and Emissions
Dr Nicky Ferguson - Head of Quantitative Research
Florian Thaler - Head of OilX