International Crude Oil Markets and Trade
- 5 day course
- Maximum 12 delegates
- 5 upcoming dates
- US$3,950
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Navigate global oil flows—understand markets, risk, and trading dynamics from wellhead to vessel.
This immersive 5-day programme delivers a comprehensive deep dive into upstream operations, refining economics, trading mechanics, and risk management across international crude and refined products markets. Delegates engage with real-world exercises, LP modelling, contract simulations, market insight labs, and peer discussion—emerging ready to influence value chain and asset-level decision-making.
Why this course is important
- Master the full value chain: Obtain clarity on exploration, refining, logistics, and trading—vital for integrated commercial and technical roles.
- Navigate volatile markets: As price swings intensify, structured risk and hedging capabilities help safeguard profitability.
- Sharpen commercial impact: Professional trading skills—from contract terms to benchmark assessment—equip participants to negotiate strategically and improve margin.
Who should attend
- Business development, sales, marketing, and trading professionals in oil and energy
- Finance, risk, and treasury managers accountable for commodity exposure
- Refinery planners and commercial teams aiming to boost throughput and margin
- Technical advisors, geoscientists, and engineers seeking commercial context to support project economics
- Regulators, legal practitioners, and contract negotiators in the energy sector
What you will learn
Day-by-day immersive learning includes:
- Upstream operations & market fundamentals – Geological formation, drilling basics, crude assays, and global production/reserves dynamics
- Crude oil trading mechanics – Evolution of pricing systems, spot vs formula vs benchmarks, Brent market layers, contract structuring
- Refined product markets – Freight and Worldscale contracts, arbitrage, product pricing, netback-margin logic, capacity & quality analysis
- Risk & price management techniques – Price risk measurement, hedging strategies using forwards, futures, swaps, options, and crack spreads
- International trade frameworks – Trade law, WTO, shipping regulations, dispute resolution, and trading norms across major hubs (US, UK, Singapore)
What participants say
Your course leader
International Chemical Engineering Consultant
With BSc and PhD degrees from the UK, and with over 30 years of refinery technology, operations, and management expertise for several famous-name oil companies, this speaker is now an internationally-famous chemical engineering consultant.
As a Chartered Chemist, a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he holds honorary appointments at a number of European universities and conducts cutting-edge research into vacuum distillation, gas recovery, absorption and pyrolysis.
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There is a cap of 12 seatsUS$3,950 / delegate
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Hamburg, Germany
Radisson Blu Hamburg - Botanical Spa, Congressplatz, Hamburg, Germany
or equivalent hotel nearby