An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management

Survive and Thrive the Price Volatility with the Financial Derivatives

18 - 22 May 2026
London
| $5950
09 - 13 Nov 2026
London
| $5950

Introduction

The Oil & Gas industry is essential and decisive in steering the global economy. The Oil & Gas business is diverse, technically complex, highly capital intensive, and often confronted with potential risks and uncertainties. Today’s oil companies are dealing with ever-increasing levels of complexity and competition.  Purchase, Sales, Marketing, Trading, and Risk Management are crucial and the most active parts of the hydrocarbon value chain, and extremely important for managers and industry leaders to stay on top of these activities.

This 5-day accelerated Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management training course is designed to give delegates a thorough picture of crude oil, refined products, biofuel markets, risks, and legal and regulatory issues involved in the international crude oil trading and these products. It is presented with the petroleum industry's wide range of essential engineering practices spanning exploration, extraction, refining, global oil supply, reserves, production & trade flows. The associated risks and uncertainties can be fully understood with an overview of these essential practices. Since price volatility always exists, how Price Risk Management is conducted utilizing appropriate financial derivatives and techniques is presented in detail in this training. 

This GLOMACS Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management training course will highlight the following:

Key Learning Outcomes

This Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management training course will give delegates a comprehensive image of the global energy obtained through fossil fuels – crude oil, refined products, natural gas, LNG, and biofuels. The supply-demand dynamics of fossil fuels, price volatility, and the associated geopolitics explain the global energy industry's overall dynamics. The issues to be considered are sales, marketing, trading, and a particular focus on price risk management and reducing corporate risk.  

At the end of this Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management training course, you will be able to:

Training Methodology

This training course is a highly interactive program that is designed to encourage delegate participation through a combination of group discussion, practical exercises, case studies, quizzes, and extensive use of short videos highlighting the petrochemical operations, environmental and safety considerations to reinforce new knowledge and skills, and discussion of practical issues in their organizations.

Oil Price Volatility and Risk Management

Who Should Attend?

By sending their employees on this training course, the organization will gain a broader range of skills that participants gain and henceforth, apply in their workspace what was learnt and will be beneficial to their respective companies.

  • It recommends a broader global energy business management perspective on the international energy business and highlights the success factors in each category of several business models
  • Defines how oil & gas energy and renewables innovations would help drive economic growth and improve living standards worldwide
  • Clarifies how we can achieve these high-efficiency goals while delivering value to shareholders
  • Inculcates the corporate culture of effectively dealing with the core issues, tactics, and essential concepts of successfully running the global petroleum business

Learning Journey Breakdown

  • Introduction to the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry
  • Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Geology and Petroleum Engineering
  • Oil & Gas Reserves, Production, Consumption & Trade
  • The Impact of The Shale Industry
  • Trends in Carbon Emissions, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
  • Basic Refining and Refining Complexity
  • Refining Economics
  • The Driving Factors of Oil Price Volatility
  • Different Strategies
  • International Oil Trade
  • Anatomy of The Crude Oil Pricing System
  • Prices on The Oil Markets
  • The Importance of Energy Security and Geopolitics
  • The Technical Analysis of Trading
  • The Fundamental Analysis of Trading
  • Trading on The Oil Markets
  • The Spot Markets
  • Spot Crude Oil Prices
  • The Brent Market
  • Indexing Crude Oil Prices
  • Hedging – Risk Management
  • How are Prices Reported?
  • The Physical Futures Markets
  • The Financial Futures Markets
  • The Historical Development of The Petroleum Exchanges
  • Futures Contracts
  • Pricing Structures: Backwardation and Contango
  • The Limitations of The Futures Markets
  • The Definition of An Option
  • The use of Options Contracts to protect the National Income of NOCs
  • The Definition of a Swap
  • The Historical Development of The Petroleum Exchanges
  • USA, UK, Singapore

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