BASIC PETROLEUM ECONOMICS
Designed for:
Managers, engineers, exploration team, field accounting supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skills and understanding of basic economics analysis and profitability of petroleum exploration and production.
You will learn:
- How to evaluate the economics viability of a project
- Cash flow techniques applicable to economics evaluations.
- How to use economic criteria to choose investments.
- Models to weigh risk and uncertaint
About the Course:
Could you answer the following three questions for your next project?
What will it cost? What is it worth? Will it earn sufficient profit?
Before undertaking any project, those three questions should be answered. The materials covered in this course which has been approved by Knights Business School curriculum advisors will provide the fundamental necessary to enable you to do contractual arrangements, which also significantly impact the economics viability of a project will be covered. Participants will practice cash flow techniques for economic evaluations and investigate frequently encountered situations. Each participant is expected to have Economics of worldwide petroleum productions book.
The course is suggested for employers of NNPC, Total, Oando, Shell, Agip, AP, Energy, and Texaco and oil companies. Individuals who are interested in the oil sector may also participate in this course.
Course Contents
- Forecasting Oil production
- Defining “reserves”, operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation factors affecting oil and gas.
- Cash flow techniques
- Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of maney, selection, ranking criteria.
- Risk, uncertainty; types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis.
- Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis.
- Ethics in economics analysis.
Course Duration:
6 months (4 months tuition + 2 months IT)
Prerequisite:
KBS Diploma, OND, HND, B.Sc
Course Fee: N85, 000:00