In House Seminars

In House Seminars

Specially designed classes to meet your company's
specific training needs.

Energy Seminars, Inc. creates and produces workshops and seminars (both public and in-house) on a variety of topics of interest to those in the energy producing, marketing, transportation, utility, and end-user industries.

Our regularly scheduled public workshops include:

Natural Gas 101
Basis Trading & Hedging with Natural Gas Futures & Options
Advanced Basis Trading & Derivatives
Adding Value to Any Gas Deal with Contract Strategy
Technical & Quantitative Analyis
Refinery Risk Management: Managing Crack Spreads
Petroleum & Products Hedging with Futures & Options
Gas Processing Contracts and Negotiations
Electricity 101

In addition, Energy Seminars, Inc. can create specially designed training classes to fit your specific training needs.

Our classes are taught by instructors who are now or who recently have worked for major companies in the energy industries.

Any of these workshops and others can be brought to your offices.

Why an In-House Seminar?

Substantial savings in travel time and expenses as well as more flexible scheduling may make an in-house workshop more cost effective in meeting a company's training needs.
Our in-house workshops cost less per person than our public workshops.
And in-house sessions often allow attendance by a wider array of employees, as well as more senior management and board directors.

Private, in-house meetings:

can save $1,000s on airfare and hotel expenses
allow internal concerns & company-specific questions to be aired
allow more senior management to attend
allow attendance by more employees from different departments
cost less per attendee than public sessions

Natural Gas 101:
A hands-on, step-by-step, nuts & bolts primer on managing natural gas from wellhead to burnertip.

Adding Value to Your Gas Deals Through Contract Strategy:
A workshop that teaches how to recognize & seize opportunities to add profit to any natural gas transaction, including Gas Contracts, ISDA Swap Agreements, Futures Contracts, & Electronic Contracts.

Technical & Quantitative Analysis for Energy & Power Markets:
A comprehensive two-day seminar on using technical tools and market timing to enhance your futures portfolio.

Basis Trading & Hedging with Natural Gas Futures & Options Workshop:
A workshop that teaches hedging, managing physicals risk
& structuring cash market derivatives to manage price risk.
More than 3,000 have attended this workshop!

Refinery Risk Management:
A workshop on managing NYMEX crack spreads, maximizing refining margins, and learning proper risk management controls.

Practical Risk Management for Energy Markets:
A comprehensive two-day seminar on understanding, developing & managing effective risk management plans.

Petroleum & Products Hedging Using Futures & Options:
Using futures to reduce risk, stabilize margins, and add pricing flexibilit.

Advanced Basis Trading & Derivatives:
An in-depth workshop on the construction and management of more complex derivatives, basis trading, and, risk management techniques.

Plus...

Gas Processing Contracts & Negotiations

Electricity 101

Beyond the Basics--What Professional Risk Managers Must Know

Introduction to Basics of Options

Advanced Options Trading

Cogeneration Fundamentals & Feasibility

Electronic Contracting

ISDA Swap Agreements

Other classes can be created as requested.

Specially Designed Training Classes Are Available

Energy Seminars, Inc. offers specially designed training classes to fit a company's specific training needs. These classes are taught by instructors who are now or who recently have worked for major companies in the natural gas and energy industries.

Training classes we can provide include:

Natural Gas 101: A Primer from Wellhead to Burnertip
Contract Strategy: Adding Value to Any Gas Deal
Electronic Contracting
ISDA Swap Agreements
Basis Trading & Hedging with Natural Gas Futures & Options
Risk Management in Energy Markets
Using Technical & Quantitative Analysis in Energy Futures Markets
History and evolution of the natural gas industry
Overview of the FERC Order 636 major provisions, including FERC status updates.
In-depth study of individual pipelines' Order 636 restructured tariffs.
Comparisons of individual pipelines' tariff provisions.
Overviews of pipelines' operational provisions, pipeline policies, and procedures.
Gas management and transportation management.
Contract negotiations, transportation rates, and discount negotiations.
Sales, purchase, and transportation management.
Natural gas sales, marketing, and purchase techniques and procedures.
Cogeneration fundamentals and feasibility.

Other classes can be created as requested.

Also available are one-hour to half-day presentations on the business aspects of the natural gas industry. These presentations cover how natural gas flows from the wellhead to the burnertip and the steps involved in signing a contract to the billing of the invoice. The key functions of the various subprocesses of the revenue management business are discussed with emphasis on the understanding of the interrelationships among the various subprocesses.

For further information, please contact Brad Heller at (281) 362-7979.

Career Advancement through Continuing Education!

Energy Seminars, Inc. has provided in-house training for dozens of companies, including:
Exxon, Texaco, Pacific Gas & Electric, SaskEnergy, Western Gas MarketingUtiliCorp United, Global Petroleum, IGI, Lower Colorado River Authority, Northern States Power, Koch, ANR, MidAmerican Energy, CNG, UGI, Sonat, Tenneco, Amoco Energy Trading, KN Energy, Oxy USA, Midland Cogeneration Venture, El Paso Merchant Services, Eastex Energy and others.

For More Information:
Phone (281) 362-7979
Fax (281) 296-9922

Energy Seminars, Inc.
PO Box 7979 The Woodlands TX 77387-7979

Interested in Teaching a Workshop?

Energy Seminars, Inc. is developing additional workshops and conference concepts. Those in the industry who may be interested in teaching workshops or speaking at conferences are encouraged to contact us.

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Registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses. Complaints regarding sponsors may be addressed to NASBA, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417.