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TRAINING COURSE

BASIC PETROLEUM ECONOMICS

BASIC PETROLEUM ECONOMICS





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, these questions should be answered, and this course will provide the fundamentals necessary to enable you to do so. Contractual arrangements, which also significantly impact the economic viability of a project, are covered. Participants practice cash flow techniques for economic evaluations and investigate frequently encountered situations.

Designed For

Managers, engineers, explorationists, field accounting supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skill and understanding of basic economic analysis and profitability of petroleum exploration and production

You will learn

  • How to evaluate the economic viability of a project
  • Cash flow techniques applicable in economic evaluations
  • How to use economic criteria to choose investments
  • Models to weigh risk and uncertainty.

Course Content

  • Forecasting oil production
  • Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices
  • Cash flow techniques
  • Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, 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 economic analyses

 

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