# International Oil and Gas Management

> Understand the petroleum value chain, markets, fiscal regimes and strategies of international oil and gas companies.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Oil, Gas, Mining & Energy
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/oil-gas-mining-energy/international-oil-and-gas-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=international-oil-and-gas-management

## Overview

New discoveries have made several African countries significant oil and gas producers, while the energy transition is reshaping the industry. This course gives a business view of the industry: exploration to marketing, oil and gas markets and pricing, petroleum agreements and fiscal regimes, project economics, local content and the strategic response to decarbonisation.

## Who should attend

- Managers new to the oil and gas industry
- Government and regulatory officials
- Finance, legal and commercial staff
- Service company managers

## Learning outcomes

- Describe the upstream, midstream and downstream value chain
- Explain oil and gas markets and pricing
- Compare petroleum fiscal regimes and agreements
- Evaluate project economics
- Assess the energy transition's impact on strategy

## Course outline

### Day 1: The industry

- Petroleum value chain
- Industry structure
- African producers
- National oil companies

### Day 2: Markets

- Oil pricing and benchmarks
- LNG and gas markets
- Trading
- Geopolitics

### Day 3: Agreements and fiscal regimes

- Licensing rounds
- Concessions and PSCs
- Royalties and taxes
- Local content

### Day 4: Economics

- Field development economics
- Costs and break-evens
- Risk
- Financing

### Day 5: Strategy

- Energy transition
- Gas as a transition fuel
- ESG
- Strategy case study
