Crude Oil Marketing and Trading

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
23 Nov 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register

Crude Oil Marketing and Trading

Introduction

This intensive and highly interactive course is designed to give delegates a better understanding of crude oil trading in a safe environment. Delegates gain exposure, knowledge, and understanding of the workings of the world of crude oil trading and are designed for oil & gas traders. The course is a combination of lecture, syndicate work, case studies, and a trading game

Objectives

    On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

    • Analyse the market performance oil and gas investments and their future outlook
    • Learn to trade products in the oil and gas market successfully
    • Develop a thorough understanding of the various trading techniques and methods
    • Identify market risk and learn to control them effectively
    • Apply practical strategies and technical analysis to mitigate risk factor in energy trading
    • Leverage on energy derivatives to hedge prices and risk exposure

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

  • Energy, Oil & gas, Commodity traders
  • Energy Trading Firms
  • Trading Managers
  • Financial, Business & Commercial Analysts
  • Portfolio & Planning Managers
  • Oil & Gas Financial Consultants
  • Oil & Gas Equity Analysts
  • Oil & Gas Executives in Banking & Corporate Finance
  • Risk Consultants, Risk Managers
  • Credit Risk Analysts

Course Outline

Day 1: Welcome & Introduction

  • Trading markets
    • Physical
      • Spot
      • Forwards
      • Term
    • OTC
      • Swaps
      • Futures
      • Options
    • Forward curves
    • OTC vs Cleared
  • Supply and demand issues
    • Crude Oil reserves
    • Production
    • Supply and Consumption
    • Geopolitics and National Oil Companies
    • Storage

Day 2:

  • Transportation
    • Tankers
    • World scale
    • Pipelines
  • Oil pricing
    • Pricing mechanisms
    • Price exposure

Day 3:

  • Crude evaluation and refining
    • Classification and assay
    • Gross product worth (GPW)
    • Simple distillation
    • Cracking
  • Contracts and trading
    • Market locations and participants
    • Contracts
    • Trading specifications
    • Price quotation
    • Trading limits
    • Settlement and delivery

Day 4:

  • Benchmarks
    • What is a benchmark?
    • What makes a grade a benchmark?
    • Main global benchmarks
      • WTI
      • ASCI
      • Dubai
      • Brent
      • Tapis
  • Brent
    • Dated Brent
    • BFOE – 21 Day
    • ICE Brent
    • The EFP premium
    • CFD’s
    • Bwave

 Day 5:

  • Pricing methodology
    • Platts
    • Petroleum Argus
  • Technical analysis
    • Types of charts
      • Line
      • Bar
      • Japanese candlestick
      • Market profile
    • Support and resistance levels
    • Trends lines
    • Major reversal patterns

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